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  • Survey: Local NDs Give So-So Marks To National TV News

    In a TVNewsCheck survey, a cross-section of news directors at TV stations around the country were asked to grade ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FNC, NBC News and MSNBC on "overall journalistic quality." None received an A, four earned Bs and, as for Fox News Channel and MSNBC, they may have to stay after class. More | Comments (7)

  • Ex. Session: Record Political Ad Boom Looms, But ...

    TVB’s political ad guru Jack Poor says there’s good news and bad news for TV stations in this election year. The good news is that their four-fifths share of total TV spend will be up 20% to around a record $2.5 billion, and no other medium seems positioned to cut into stations' share. The bad news is that the total take will be suppressed due to the lack of any major gubernatorial contest that swelled the coffers in 2010. More | Add comment

  • Jessell: Disclosure Rule The First Step Toward Quotas

    The FCC's proposed disclosure rules, which would require stations to detail the kinds of programming they air and post the info on their websites, should be fought tooth and nail by broadcasters. What the regulators want are statistics that they can use to hang over stations in the form of a programming quotas at license renewal time. And a quota is nothing but a mandate. It's the federal government telling stations what programming they must air, and that slams right into broadcasters' First Amendment rights. More | Comments (9)

  • Front Office: Cord Cutting Is Gen Y’s Latest Trend

    A growing number of young adults born between 1980 and 1995 — Gen Y — are purchasing over-the-air antennas to watch television programming. Gen Ys are inherently more adept at, and prone to, experimenting with alternative forms of viewing TV content; they are less likely to accept the need to subscribe to subscription-based pay TV once they’re free to make their own decisions about it. More | Comments (11)

  • NAB 2012: Getting The Shot Cheaper, Easier, Faster

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    As more and more stations adopt the one-man band approach to newsgathering, the camera manufacturers are turning out new units that are small enough and light enough to be managed easily, and big enough and heavy enough to be balanced for a steady shot. Plus, they’re inexpensive enough that any station's budget can handle them, too. More | Comments (7)

Special Reports

  • 2011—Year In Review: Revisit the year’s top developments in business, programming, journalism, technology, regulation and more.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Remembering 9/11: TVNewsCheck looks back 10 years after the attacks with a series of five articles.
  • Severe Weather News: This five-part TVNewsCheck Special Report focuses on the changing technology used to stay ahead of storms.
  • TOP 30 TV STATION GROUPS: TVNewsCheck's exclusive ranking by coverage with a summary of each group's holdings and top executives.

Industry Calendar

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American Cable Association
ACA’s 19th Annual Summit
Washington, D.C., DC
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Borrell Advertising Associates
The Borrell Local Online Advertising Conference
New York, NY
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BIA Kelsey
ILM EAST
Boston, MA
April 2012
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National Association of Broadcasters
NAB Show
Las Vegas, NV
June 2012
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PromaxBDA
PromaxBDA: The Conference 2012
Los Angeles, CA

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WSB Showcases Anchor Retirement On Twitter
Lost Remote, Feb 8, 2012, 3:20 PM EST
Amazon, Viacom Close To Web Video Deal
Reuters, Feb 8, 2012, 7:48 AM EST
Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc. The online retailer will unveil the deal as soon as this week, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Link | Add comment
Chairman, 3 Others Out In Yahoo Board Shake-Up
Associated Press, Feb 8, 2012, 5:53 AM EST
NBC Launches iPad-Only Series
NetNewsCheck, Feb 7, 2012, 3:31 PM EST
NBC on Feb. 8 will roll out a new documentary series, Hidden Planet, featuring foreign correspondent Richard Engel that will stream directly to the iPad via the Rock Center app. Link | Add comment
Super Bowl XLVI
NBC Calls Super Bowl Live Stream A Success
New York Times, Feb 7, 2012, 7:50 AM EST
Despite some complaints from users, NBC declared its live stream of Sunday's Super Bowl to be a success. The number of total live streams is likely to top 1 million. The broadcaster said it would report the total number of streams today. Link | Add comment
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Super Bowl XLVI — Six Screens To Glory
TVB, Feb 6, 2012, 7:39 PM EST
In 2012 watching the game on your living room HDTV isn’t the only “best” way to watch the game anymore. And by that I don’t mean that I didn’t spring for the full 3D TV experience. It’s bigger than that. Today, you can virtually have an “all-access” pass to the Super Bowl while still being hundreds of miles from the stadium. Link | Add comment
Verizon, Redbox To Offer Streaming Service
Associated Press, Feb 6, 2012, 2:37 PM EST
Verizon and Coinstar Inc., Redbox's parent, said Monday that the service will be national and available to non-Verizon customers as well. It adds another dimension to Verizon's quest to become a force in home entertainment, and will compete with Netflix. Full Story | Add comment
NFL Fumbles Super Bowl Streaming Effort
Streaming Media Magazine, Feb 6, 2012, 8:03 AM EST
The NFL's first attempt at live streaming the Super Bowl was marred by illegible graphics, widely varying image quality, and up to a minute time lag behind the broadcast. Link | Add comment
Netflix Less About Flicks, More About TV
Los Angeles Times, Feb 6, 2012, 6:47 AM EST
Netflix is bulking up on TV offerings for subscribers through its on-demand Internet streaming service, including reruns and its first original series Link | Add comment
Print Media Go Live With Video Programming
New York Times, Feb 6, 2012, 6:35 AM EST
Websites, newspapers and other news organizations are gearing up to produce hours of video programming, in part to pursue the higher revenues available from video ads. Link | Comments (1)
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Washington Post Crosses Into TV Territory
Washington Post, Feb 5, 2012, 8:44 AM EST
Video is becoming an increasingly significant, and profitable, part of the digital content offered by the Post and other news sites. You’ll be seeing more of this in 2012 and beyond. No, the Post won’t be a full-service TV station, at least not for now, but a well-equipped video-production suite already sits adjacent to the main Post newsroom, and the department is hiring more video journalists and producers in the coming weeks and months. Link | Add comment
Front Office by Mary Collins
Gen Y’s Latest Trend: Cord Cutting
TVNewsCheck, Feb 3, 2012, 8:23 AM EST
A growing number of young adults born between 1980 and 1995 — Gen Y — are purchasing over-the-air antennas to watch television programming. Gen Ys are inherently more adept at, and prone to, experimenting with alternative forms of viewing TV content; they are less likely to accept the need to subscribe to subscription-based pay TV once they’re free to make their own decisions about it. Full Story | Comments (11)
Internet TV Faces Some Big Obstacles
Kansas City Star, Feb 3, 2012, 6:53 AM EST
Technology increasingly blurs the lines between computer, television, phone and tablet. Online video options grow almost by the hour. A screen, in the era of cyber choice, is a screen is a screen. Still, to fill your screen with popular sports, comedies and dramas from the brands that dominate your television, generations-old economic models will have to be rearranged for the wild, wild Web. Link | Add comment
Feds Blitz Illegal Sports Streaming Sites
Los Angeles Times, Feb 3, 2012, 6:33 AM EST
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies announced Thursday that they had seized 16 websites and brought criminal charges against a Michigan man who operated nine of them. Link | Add comment
Seeing Super Bowl Ads Before The Coin Toss
New York Times, Feb 3, 2012, 6:07 AM EST
Advertisers placed many Super Bowl spots on YouTube or social media well ahead of the game, hoping to start a conversation and generate follow-up interest. Link | Add comment
HuffPo Plans Live Web Video Network
Adweek, Feb 2, 2012, 2:36 PM EST
A year after it was acquired by AOL, The Huffington Post is set to shake up the Web video, and possibly even the TV news businesses, by launching the Huffington Post Streaming network, which will stream 12 hours of live programming five days a week starting sometime this summer. Link | Add comment
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Digital Splits Spur Creativity In San Antonio
NetNewsCheck, Feb 2, 2012, 7:45 AM EST
Break-ups in the Web partnerships of some of the Alamo City's traditional media players have produced three of San Antonio’s top digital outlets, including those of KSAT and KENS. The splits have also sparked some creative social and mobile efforts around San Antonio's music scene and beloved Spurs basketball team. Link | Add comment
Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself The News
New York Times, Feb 2, 2012, 6:46 AM EST
Super Bowl Advertisers Go After 2nd Screens
Associated Press, Feb 1, 2012, 2:50 PM EST
About two-thirds of smartphone and tablet owners use their gadgets to do things like text or post on Twitter while watching TV, according to Nielsen. So, for Sunday's game, companies from Coke to Chevy are trying to reach fans on all the "second screens" they have. Full Story | Add comment
Commentary
Broadcasters Must Wise Up About Smart TV
TVNewsCheck, Feb 1, 2012, 8:15 AM EST
At last month's CES, three technologies showed significant progress: connected TV, smart TV and TV Everywhere. It's likely the three will converge. If so, they’ll arrive in one massive wave that could completely disrupt the way people watch TV — and threaten the way broadcasters do business. Broadcasters must figure out how to catch the wave. Full Story | Comments (16)
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  • Neil Genzlinger

    Smash, NBC’s series about backstage Broadway, comes with New York and Hollywood names off screen (Steven Spielberg, Therese Rebeck) and on (Debra Messing and Brian d’Arcy James). Given that pedigree, you’re expecting to be bowled over by the pilot, but it ends up feeling like a collage of devices from the zillions of previous backstage plays, musicals and movies. However, be patient — Smash gets better as it goes along and by Episode 3 it shows signs of becoming an addictive pleasure along the lines of this season’s Revenge.

  • Lori Rackl

    Pop some Dramamine before watching ABC's new horror series, The River, because the shaky camera work is more likely to make you seasick than scared. You can, however, skip the sleeping pill. The River's two-hour premiere should suffice. Billed as a thriller, the show tries hard to be terrifying and eerie in a Paranormal Activity kind of way. It ends up being hokey and, even worse, boring.

  • Robert Lloyd

    Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, veterans of Fox's sketch comedy MADtv, have a new series of their own, Comedy Central's Key & Peele. It is a genial, at times almost genteel, half-hour in which the pair's obvious niceness shines through even their more pugnacious characters. (Key's version of road rage is to shout, "Selfish!") In a roundabout way, that's the point. The sketches are consistently smart and smartly acted and flow easily from ordinary premises to weird conclusions.

  • 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.

  • 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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