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    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)

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    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)

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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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WNBC Trims Promo With Police Commisioner
New York Daily News, Feb 7, 2012, 6:56 AM EST
'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
Dr. Oz's Health Effort Nets 1M Participants
Associated Press, Feb 7, 2012, 6:05 AM EST
NBC Spends Millions On Buildup To ‘Smash’
New York Times, Feb 6, 2012, 6:27 AM EST
Estimates are that NBC has spent as much as $25 million promoting Smash, a new series that the network hopes will be the hit it desperately needs. Link | Add comment
News Corp. Communications Chief Leaving
New York Times, Jan 30, 2012, 3:10 PM EST
News Corp. will lose its head of communications next month, the company said Monday, as Teri Everett becomes the latest senior executive to depart the media conglomerate on Feb. 11. Link | Add comment
Chronicling TV, Radio Community Service
NAB, Jan 25, 2012, 10:28 AM EST
NAB's Licensed to Serve provides noteworthy stories that illustrate the many public service activities broadcasters organize on any given day across the U.S. From arranging record-breaking toy and food drives to providing free air time for political campaign coverage, broadcasters' continual commitment to their communities is showcased. | Add comment
PBS Under Fire For 'Downton' Jewelry
UPI, Jan 25, 2012, 7:56 AM EST
'Idol' Reigns In TV, Social Media Ratings
MediaPost, Jan 25, 2012, 6:05 AM EST
For those who believe social media activity and traditional TV ratings can work hand in hand, it was a good week: American Idol scored well in both metrics for its 11th season debut. According to Social Guide, Fox's big TV singing competition show, which aired two original episodes last week, pulled in 325,000 unique visitors on social media sites for the week ending Jan. 22 — tops among all TV shows. Link | Add comment
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WUTB Ups McCausey To Creative Services Director
TVNewsCheck, Jan 24, 2012, 1:36 PM EST
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KGO Names New Creative Services VP
TVNewsCheck, Jan 17, 2012, 2:31 PM EST
The ABC O&O brings in Candace Hirleman Archer from co-owned KABC Los Angeles and also promotes Paula Marcheschi to creative services manager. Full Story | Comments (1)
Stephen Colbert Enters The Presidential Race
The Wrap, Jan 13, 2012, 7:31 AM EST
Disney To Preview ABC Shows In Theaters
Bloomberg Businessweek, Jan 11, 2012, 10:41 AM EST
Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC will promote its new series The River by showing two full episodes in movie theaters in a bid to lift ratings for the second-place network. Link | Add comment
LIN To Award Training Scholarships, Internships
TVNewsCheck, Jan 10, 2012, 5:43 PM EST
NBC To Stream 'Smash' Before Premiere
The Wrap, Jan 6, 2012, 8:32 PM EST
NBC's will begin streaming one of its biggest hopes for midseason, the Broadway drama Smash, three weeks before it premieres on-air. The strategy is becoming increasingly popular as a way of building buzz. Link | Add comment
TCA Press Tour
NBC Funding Musical Theater Program For Schools
Associated Press, Jan 6, 2012, 2:41 PM EST
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KING Seattle’s ‘Promise’ Campaign Delivers
TVNewsCheck, Jan 3, 2012, 5:45 AM EST
The unusual campaign, mostly black & white, emphasized the long and loyal relationship between the audience and the station’s seasoned journalists. And while it’s always hazardous to credit ratings success to a single campaign, the February 2011 sweeps brought only good news. Full Story | Comments (2)
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WMOR Offering Show Tickets To Military Families
TVNewsCheck, Dec 28, 2011, 10:49 AM EST
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NBC's WVIT Using Comcast In Facebook Campaign
TVBR, Dec 27, 2011, 6:33 AM EST
Here’s Hoping Santa’s Good To You
TVNewsCheck, Dec 23, 2011, 8:19 AM EST
TVNewsCheck will not publish Monday, Dec. 26. We will return Tuesday, the 27th. Merry Christmas from all of us at TVNewsCheck. | Add comment
Viacom Ups Julia Phelps To PR SVP For Intl. Nets
The Wrap, Dec 22, 2011, 7:50 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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