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Exclusives
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Tech 1 On 1: Out With Old, In With New Gear At Young
Craig Porter, Young Broadcasting’s engineering VP, has spent $25 million modernizing the group’s 10 stations. First he took care of news production, moving to all-HD. Now master control is being transformed into a file-based workflow for commercials and programming. More | Add comment -
NATPE 2012: To Steve Harvey, Syndication’s No Joke
The serious multi-tasker expects to work in tapings of his new NBCUniversal syndicated talk show around his other gigs as syndicated morning-drive radio personality and host of Debmar-Mercury's Family Feud. Something has to give, however, and it will be his standup comedy. But he says he’s not giving up humor: “I want to do a daytime show that is inspirational, uplifting and insightful. Then, the twist I’m going to put on it is that, in the middle of the day, it’s going to be funny.” More | Add comment
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Jessell At Large: NATPE 2012 Is Still All About Oprah
Oprah is long gone — she taped her last show for broadcast syndication eight months ago — but her presence (or absence) is still being felt throughout broadcasting and will pervade the NATPE conference next week in Miami Beach. She'll continue to be the measure by which every other talk show evaluates itself and the subject of countless conversations about her impact on broadcasting. More | Comments (4)
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Front Office: Cox's Lacey Lewis Is A Person To Watch
The Media Financial Management Associations is honoring outstanding industry executives with its People to Watch awards. Among this year's honorees is the SVP of finance for Cox Enterprises who has consistently shown a willingness to take on new challenges. Now, if she could only find time for to earn that helicopter pilot's license. More | Add comment -
Sales Office: Broadcast Television Still No. 1 At CES
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show was overflowing with TV technology. For the creative, forward-thinking marketer there was an abundance of innovative ways to reach television-loving consumers, and TV broadcasters were squarely in that game with mobile DTV. More | Comments (5)
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2011—Year In Review: Revisit the year’s top developments in business, programming, journalism, technology, regulation and more.
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Audience Measurement: The state of ratings is examined in three parts: an interview with the head of the Media Ratings Council; the growing presence of Rentrak; and the search for a better local ratings currency.
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Traffic Reporting: This four-part TVNewsCheck Special Report focuses on what it takes to stay on top of the growing commuter gridlock across the country.
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Remembering 9/11: TVNewsCheck looks back 10 years after the attacks with a series of five articles.
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Severe Weather News: This five-part TVNewsCheck Special Report focuses on the changing technology used to stay ahead of storms.
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TOP 30 TV STATION GROUPS: TVNewsCheck's exclusive ranking by coverage with a summary of each group's holdings and top executives.
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Latest News
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
Jessell at Large
A Year Later: Comcast Walked Its NBC Talk
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 27, 2012, 3:33 PM EST
retrans wars
NAB Blasts Time Warner Over Earnings
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 27, 2012, 1:02 PM EST
The association says that since the cable operator reported a fourth quarter net income increase of 44% and annual profits of $1.3 billion, “it's time for pay TV's poster child for skyrocketing rates to come clean on retransmission consent.” Full Story
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DMAS 23 (Pittsburgh) & 102 (Johnstown, PA)
WPXI, WJAC Team For Paterno Funeral
Valley News Dispatch,
Jan 27, 2012, 2:56 PM EST
The Two Pennsylvania NBC affiliates — WPXI in Pittsburgh and WJAC in Johnstown-Altoona — worked together this Wednesday to provide what the stations are calling "unprecedented live coverage" of Paterno's funeral procession through State College. Link
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overnights
Big Gains For Fox's New Drama 'The Finder'
Media Life,
Jan 27, 2012, 12:11 PM EST
Earnings Call
Covenant Crisis Looming At Media General
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 26, 2012, 4:35 PM EST
In its earnings call Thursday, company execs say they are hoping to modify the agreements for its $658 million in debt. If it can’t successfully renegotiate the covenants, Media General could be at risk of bankruptcy. It’s a threat that some analysts have been discussing quietly since last year. Full Story
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Sunbeam, DirecTV Reach Retrans Pact
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 26, 2012, 6:56 PM EST
The owner of WSVN Miami and WHDH and WLVI Boston signs a carriage deal with the satellite TV provider, avoiding a Super Bowl blackout. Full Story
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Fla. TV To Rake In Over $20M From GOP Ads
Hollywood Reporter,
Jan 27, 2012, 5:59 AM EST
The resurrection of Newt Gingrich already is directing millions of dollars in local television advertising to the Sunshine State ahead of the end-of-month primary. Link
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WAND Decatur Ups Koenig To Sales Director
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 26, 2012, 7:08 PM EST
Clay Koenig, general sales manager of the Block Communications’ NBC affiliate, becomes VP-director of sales. Full Story
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Boxee Starts Shipping Boxee Live TV
NYConvergence,
Jan 27, 2012, 7:47 AM EST
Boxee, the Brooklyn-based startup that allows users to watch Internet shows on TV, is now shipping is latest innovation. The Boxee Live TV dongle allows users to watch live broadcast TV channels like ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC for free. Link
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Globes Trial Reveals Art Of Negotiations
Los Angeles Times,
Jan 27, 2012, 6:39 AM EST
When it comes to getting a television deal done, the rule is that there are no rules. That was the takeaway from Day 3 of the legal battle over who controls the television rights to the Golden Globe Awards show. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and Dick Clark Productions — partners on the Golden Globes for almost 30 years — are fighting in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Link
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NBC Hires Talent Executive Chuck LaBella
Hollywood Reporter,
Jan 27, 2012, 5:57 AM EST
Having consulted on past reality shows and specials for the network, LaBella will focus on luring celebs and handling talent relations. Link
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Myth Busting
Millennials DO Respond To TV Advertising
MediaPost,
Jan 27, 2012, 8:02 AM EST
Millennials look to TV to keep up with the hottest things to buy. Nothing even comes close to generating awareness among Millennials the way TV commercials do. Link
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ESPN Sees Mobile As 'First Screen'
MediaPost,
Jan 27, 2012, 7:57 AM EST
Michael Bayle, VP-GM of ESPN Mobile, said the sports giant sees mobile as the starting point for its programming: "What’s taking preference now is to try to get as ubiquitous as possible. Program and design from the mobile standpoint first, then extrapolate what could be applied for the PC, television and print experience." Link
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Plenty Of Ads Left For Streaming Super Bowl
PaidContent,
Jan 27, 2012, 7:56 AM EST
While some advertisers have bought into digital packages for the Super Bowl's first live video presentation on personal computers, tablets and mobile phones, many have not shown the same enthusiasm for the live stream as for the TV broadcast. Link
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Jan 27, 2012, 7:44 AM EST
MBC Gets $2.7 Million From Comcast, NBC
Robert Feder,
Jan 27, 2012, 6:57 AM EST
Leno Joke Draws Fire From British Parliament
New York Times,
Jan 27, 2012, 6:27 AM EST
CBS Picks Up Three More Drama Pilots
TV Line,
Jan 27, 2012, 6:20 AM EST
Netflix Stock Surges 22% After Strong Earnings
Los Angeles Times,
Jan 27, 2012, 6:19 AM EST
BBC Chief To Step Down After Olympics
The Guardian,
Jan 27, 2012, 6:05 AM EST
Robert Hegyes Dies, Played Epstein On 'Kotter'
Associated Press,
Jan 27, 2012, 5:56 AM EST
INVISION Names Tom Mannion Head of Digital Sales
TVNewsCheck,
Jan 26, 2012, 7:18 PM EST
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Ratings
Overnights, adults 18-49 for January 26, 2012
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Reviews
Opinions
Features
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Hank Stuever
Discovery's Bering Sea Gold doesn’t seem at first like it has crossed any new reality TV frontier, relying on elements and structure familiar to the form. Enticingly (to the network), it combines the ocean and the gold and the cold and the reactive testosterone among bad-tempered desperados. To which I am surprised to cry: Eureka, they’ve found it! Bering Sea Gold is a testament to how thoroughly absorbing the genre can still be, when it’s done right.
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Neil Genzlinger
All Star Dealers, Discovery Channel's sports-memorabilia addition to the bloated auction/pawnshop/storage locker subgenre of reality television, should have been a winner, with endless stories to draw on and a built-in fan base. But rather than find its own formula, it was content to borrow from existing shows, and it borrowed all the wrong things.
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Joanne Ostrow
Kiefer Sutherland displays his softer side in Fox's Touch, a touchy-feely drama merging paranormal, spiritual and sweetly familial elements. shows off his acting chops, long forgotten, in scene after scene. It's heavier lifting than usual for the actor who was often reduced to caricature in 24. Sutherland is all about vulnerability in a show whose goal is nothing short of proving the interconnectedness of human life. We'll see if audiences can tolerate the notion of profound interrelatedness as weekly entertainment.
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Tim Goodman
Let's jump right to the most obvious of all sentiments when it comes to HBO's new horse racing/gambling series Luck: Do not bet against David Milch in this one. Like a lot of HBO series, Luck will require patience. It's telling a dense story with nuanced characters and it doesn't feel the need to rush in, like a network series, and hammer home the main themes. But each episode is more enriching, more engrossing than the last and there's Hoffman's superb turn at the forefront, even though his story unfolds with the least rush. Luck is a smart and ambitious series that looks to truly pay off in the home stretch.
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Mike Hale
The timing of FX's animated series Unsupervised is unfortunate. A kind of reversed Beavis and Butt-Head — in which the teenage heroes, while losers in just about every way, are also social strivers yearning for suburban domesticity and dispensing Oprah Winfrey-style affirmations — it has the bad luck of coming along three months after the original was revived by MTV. The new show looks awfully pale by comparison.
