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We believe in TV broadcasting—free, universal, over-the-air broadcasting, where TV got its start and which still offers hertz-for-hertz the best TV programming and public service around. It is our privilege to serve the thousands of individuals who make it happen. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET, every working day, we deliver news and information for station owners, managers, account executives, programmers, engineers, technicians, anchors, reporters and producers.

Like any good newspaper, we closely follow the goings on within our community of TV stations. But we also keep an eye on Washington, the broadcast networks, the advertising marketplace, hardware vendors and—this may be most important—corporate headquarters. And we cover cable, satellite, the Internet and other media, but only because they have an impact on broadcasting. Our focus is always on the TV station.

There are already plenty of magazines, newsletters and Web sites that cover TV broadcasting. We do not want to add to the information overload. Our idea is to organize all that is out there, mix in our original reporting and commentary and bring it all together on your desktop with the urgency of all-news radio.

The site is designed to give you an up-to-the minute briefing on the dynamic world of TV broadcasting with one top-to-bottom scroll. We read everything so you don't have to. Our promise is that you won't miss a thing if you keep checking in.

We are working in a new medium, where the rules change every day, but we are old-fashioned journalists. We want to deliver the news as quickly as we can. We want the scoop. But we also want your trust. We do not sacrifice speed for accuracy. We do not report anything unless we have checked it out or made certain it comes from a credible source.

We are led by three veteran journalists who have been closely following the TV business for more than a quarter century, mostly from top positions at Broadcasting & Cable. Editor and Co-Publisher Harry A. Jessell worked at B&C as a reporter and editor from 1978 to 2004. For the final seven years, he was the top editor. Publisher Kathy Haley is a former New York bureau chief for B&C, but she also was top editor at Cablevision, View, NATPE Programmer and Extra Extra Daily. Managing Editor Mark K. Miller preceded Jessell's arrival at B&C by three years, and was managing editor when he left in 1998. Since then, he has continued to cover TV as a freelance writer and editor.

We feel closer to TV broadcasting than we would if we were publishing a magazine or newsletter. Like broadcasting, our Web site is electronic, universal, ad-supported and immediate. Our journalistic model is all-news radio. We feel more like descendents of Marconi than of Gutenberg. It's nice to be part of the extended family.

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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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