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Latest News TUESDAY, FEB 9, 2010

Fox And Conan Working On The Prenup

The Wrap, Feb 9, 2010, 10:29 AM ET

After weeks of flirting, Fox and Conan O'Brien are about to take their relationship to the next level. Nobody from the network or Team Coco will talk about it openly, but it's clear both camps have begun doing their respective due diligence as they try to figure out how a deal might be hammered out to bring O'Brien to Fox. Given the desire to get a show launched by January at the latest, industry insiders believe it's now a matter of days or weeks (not months) before formal conversations begin.

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Executive Session with Josh Silver

Subsidies, Not Consolidation, Will Save TV

TVNewsCheck, Feb 9, 2010, 7:36 AM ET

Providing loyal opposition to broadcasting on many issues in Washington is Free Press. Executive Director Josh Silver says his group recognizes the trouble that broadcasting and newspaper publishing is in, but he doesn't see media consolidation as the way out. A better approach, he says, is direct government subsidies for noncommercial media and indirect subsidies for commercial media. And he says he believes some spectrum give-back is inevitable.

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Nexstar, LSN Sign Local Mobile Deal

TVNewsCheck, Feb 9, 2010, 6:36 AM ET

The new deal has LSN supporting delivery of Nexstar's news, weather, sports scores and video content to mobile users via Web, video, apps and SMS/texting.

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Morris To Head Harris' Broadcast Business

TVNewsCheck, Feb 9, 2010, 8:40 AM ET

Harris executive P. Harris Morris is promoted to president of the company's broadcast communications group.

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Another Farewell For Jay Leno

Los Angeles Times, Feb 9, 2010, 6:47 AM ET

When the talk show host signs off today, it'll be different than when Johnny Carson left. After all, it's not really goodbye.

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Toyota Recalls 437,000 Hybrids Globally

Associated Press, Feb 9, 2010, 6:11 AM ET

Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems -- the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.

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2nd Super Bowl Record: 48 Minutes Of Ads

Associated Press, Feb 9, 2010, 6:18 AM ET

Think Sunday night's Super Bowl seemed like it had a lot of ads? You're right. Commercials took up nearly 48 minutes of the game -- the most for any Super Bowl.

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Brooke Sheen Wants Case Dismissed

Associated Press, Feb 9, 2010, 6:20 AM ET

Charlie Sheen and his wife were reunited Monday after a judge modified a restraining order and allowed them them to work out their differences following a Christmas Day domestic violence dispute in which the actor allegedly pinned his spouse on a bed with a knife to her throat.

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Charlie Sheen Charged With Felony

The Wrap, Feb 8, 2010, 5:08 PM ET

Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen was charged Monday with felony menacing and two misdeameanors -- assault and criminal mischief -- in connection with a Christmas Day incident involving alleged domestic assault against his wife Brooke Mueller. If convicted of the felony charge, Sheen faces one to three years in jail.

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BORRELL LOCAL ONLINE AD CONFERENCE

First Is Best In Getting New Media Ads

TVNewsCheck, Feb 8, 2010, 5:02 PM ET

To succeed online and in mobile, TV stations need the one-two punch of getting into the market as soon as possible and making sure the content is engaging to users and advertisers.

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CW Ups Doherty To SVP, National Sales

TVNewsCheck, Feb 8, 2010, 4:30 PM ET

Brian Doherty will oversee all national advertising sales efforts for The CW and continue to manage the sales teams in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

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Borrell Local Online Ad Conference

Reputation Tracking Is New Online Metric

TVNewsCheck, Feb 8, 2010, 4:04 PM ET

Reputation management services can help small and medium businesses struggling to stay on top of the explosion of social media, ratings, reviews and other online content.

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BORRELL LOCAL ONLINE AD CONFERENCE

Mobile Marketing Seen Flourishing In '10

TVNewsCheck, Feb 8, 2010, 3:47 PM ET

Kip Cassino, Borrell Associates VP of research and development, predicts mobile marketing to double this year, rising from 4% to 8% of all online marketing. And by 2013, about half of all online ad dollars will be spent on mobile, he said.

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Comcast Automates Spot Ingest With Telestream

TVNewsCheck, Feb 9, 2010, 9:05 AM ET

Telemundo Names Escobar EVP Of Network News

B&C, Feb 9, 2010, 8:41 AM ET

KNSD Anchor Marty Levin To Retire In May

SanDiego.com, Feb 9, 2010, 8:31 AM ET

Portland, Ore., TV: KPTV Tops At 10, KOIN No. 1 at 11

Oregon Media Central, Feb 9, 2010, 8:25 AM ET

Paul Reiser Step Closer To Returning To NBC

Deadline Hollywood, Feb 9, 2010, 8:22 AM ET

TLC Cancels 'American Chopper'

TV by the Numbers, Feb 9, 2010, 6:28 AM ET

A New Rx For FX: All Original Programming

Multichannel News, Feb 9, 2010, 6:28 AM ET

MySpace Music Experiments With Audio Ads

Associated Press, Feb 9, 2010, 6:14 AM ET

ABC, NBC Pilots Expand Casts

Hollywood Reporter, Feb 9, 2010, 6:11 AM ET

Rich Appel Signs New 20th TV Deal

Hollywood Reporter, Feb 9, 2010, 6:11 AM ET

'Bones' Creator Joins Fox's 'Guilty' Pilot

Hollywood Reporter, Feb 9, 2010, 6:11 AM ET

The CW Sets Premieres For 'Fly,' 'High'

Hollywood Reporter, Feb 9, 2010, 6:11 AM ET

Minka Kelly Lands Lead In CBS's 'True Love' Pilot

Hollywood Reporter, Feb 9, 2010, 6:11 AM ET

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Overnights, adults 18-49 for Feb 7, 2010
  • 1.  cbs29.7/61
  • 2.  fox1.0/2
  • 3.  abc0.9/2
  • 4.  uni0.9/2
  • 5.  nbc0.5/1
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  • Barry Garron

    Reincarnation, once largely the province of Hindus and Shirley MacLaine, collides with the world of crime procedurals in Fox's Past Life. But one shouldn't take Past Life lightly merely because it is based on the premise of reincarnation. Not when there are so many other reasons to take it lightly.

  • David Hinckley

    Admit it: No matter what you remember about Soul Train -- the dancing, the clothes, the music -- just those two words put a smile on your face. So will The Hippest Trip, VH1's documentary on one of the most successful music shows in the history of anywhere.

  • Matthew Gilbert

    PBS's Digital Nation installment of Frontline tours through all kinds of digitally related issues, many of them rich enough to support documentaries of their own. At times, Digital Nation can be jumpy, as it moves among so many locations and generations and manifestations of being connected. And yet it all ultimately hangs together nicely, as a wide portrait of current digital technology and what we don't yet know about its human cost.

  • Joanne Ostrow

    HBO's Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes, illustrates the workings of a brilliant mind that sees the world through the prism of autism. Grandin changed the way the world perceived autism; Now Danes changes the way we perceive Grandin. The film is much less a story about autism than a compelling biography of the coming of age of a woman with an unusual sense of the world.

  • Hank Stuever

    If nothing else, since so many college students are majoring in PR now, they can gather round and study The Michael Vick Project, BET's eight-part quasi-documentary in which the disgraced NFL quarterback gives lessons in the modern methods of contrition.