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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)

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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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  • 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.
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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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ACA’s 19th Annual Summit
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Borrell Advertising Associates
The Borrell Local Online Advertising Conference
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ILM EAST
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April 2012
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National Association of Broadcasters
NAB Show
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June 2012
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PromaxBDA
PromaxBDA: The Conference 2012
Los Angeles, CA

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'Downton Abbey' Brings Cool TV Crowd To PBS
Reuters, Feb 8, 2012, 3:17 PM EST
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WCBS Claims Parade Viewing Victory
TVNewsCheck, Feb 8, 2012, 12:45 PM EST
The CBS O&O says its 244,000 average viewers to the city’s New York Giants parade between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. yesterday was tops in the market. Full Story | Add comment
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'NCIS' Celebrates 200th Ep. With Tues. Win
Hollywood Reporter, Feb 8, 2012, 12:36 PM EST
The CBS drama celebrates its bicentennial, dominating in the key demo and total viewers, while the new ABC horror series The River hits time slot highs but doesn't get off to the most auspicious of starts. Link | Add comment
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
TVNewsCheck Focus on Syndication
Top Sitcoms Out Of Netflix’s Reach…For Now
TVNewsCheck, Feb 8, 2012, 8:29 AM EST
The subscription video-on-demand service is spending $1 billion this year to acquire programming to beef up its offerings, with an increased emphasis on syndicated fare. But while Netflix may be throwing around a lot of dollars, it isn't competing with TV stations and basic cable networks for A-list, off-net sitcoms like Warner Bros.' Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory — at least not yet. Full Story | Add comment
BET Unveils Ambitious Development Slate
Los Angeles Times, Feb 8, 2012, 6:47 AM EST
Chinese State TV Starts American Service
Associated Press, Feb 8, 2012, 6:32 AM EST
Golden Globes Court Fight
Testimony Ends In Globes Broadcast Trial
Associated Press, Feb 8, 2012, 6:15 AM EST
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz warned attorneys for the Globes' organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and its longtime producers that he would declare a clear winner, which could result in the Globes being tangled up on appeal for another awards season. Full Story | Add comment
Tony Shalhoub, Allison Janney Join NBC Comedy
Hollywood Reporter, Feb 8, 2012, 6:02 AM EST
ABC Adds Comedy Pilot From Mandy Moore
Hollywood Reporter, Feb 8, 2012, 5:58 AM EST
Judge Dismisses Reality Show Ideas Theft Lawsuit
Hollywood Reporter, Feb 8, 2012, 5:57 AM EST
ABC Greenlights Thriller Drama 'Mistresses'
Hollywood Reporter, Feb 8, 2012, 5:55 AM EST
Christina Aguilera Re-Ups For 'The Voice'
The Wrap, Feb 7, 2012, 7:31 PM EST
Bounce TV Acquires More Movie Titles
TVNewsCheck, Feb 7, 2012, 2:15 PM EST
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'Voice' Draws NBC's Best Rating Since 2007
Media Life, Feb 7, 2012, 12:16 PM EST
NBC's midseason prospects are looking a lot rosier this morning. The network's decision to air The Voice behind the Super Bowl paid off handsomely with the show growing 29% over last year's season debut in its regular Monday 8-10 p.m. timeslot last night. Voice averaged a 6.6 adults 18-49 rating, NBC's best average in that timeslot for non-sports programming since Feb. 16, 2004, and the network's top non-sports, non-special on any night in four-and-a-half years, since September 2007. Link | Add comment
'NCIS' Achieves Milestone Few Shows Reach
New York Times, Feb 7, 2012, 6:48 AM EST
NCIS celebrates its success as No. 1 and its unusual longevity with a special 200th episode tonight that its producers and publicists have been planning since last spring. Link | Add comment
Univision, Disney Mull English News Channel
TVNewsCheck, Feb 7, 2012, 6:29 AM EST
Sources say the two are planning an English-language, 24-hour cable news channel aimed at Latinos that would launch before the November presidential election. Full Story | Comments (1)
ABC Family Gives Series Order To 'Gilmore' Creator
Hollywood Reporter, Feb 7, 2012, 6:21 AM EST
Iowa Woman Accused Of Blackmailing TLC Show
Associated Press, Feb 7, 2012, 6:08 AM EST
Dr. Oz's Health Effort Nets 1M Participants
Associated Press, Feb 7, 2012, 6:05 AM EST
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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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