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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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    JVC's GY-HM150
    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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WGAL Harrisburg Debuts New Set From FX Group
NewscastStudio, Feb 8, 2012, 2:37 PM EST
Ross Video Fiscal 1Q Revenue Jumps 59%
Devoncroft, Feb 8, 2012, 6:26 AM EST
Apple Plans iTV Launch In Canada
The Globe and Mail, Feb 7, 2012, 3:20 PM EST
Canada's largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television. Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. are in talks with Apple Inc. to become Canadian launch partners for its much-hyped Apple iTV, a product that has the potential to revolutionize TV viewing by turning conventional televisions into gigantic iPads. Link | Add comment
Flingo Raises $7 Million For Smarter TVs
MediaPost, Feb 7, 2012, 2:47 PM EST
Canada Makes Mobile TV More Affordable
Broadcast Engineering, Feb 7, 2012, 6:29 AM EST
Longtime FCC Engineer Nai Tam Dies
CommLawBlog, Feb 6, 2012, 3:17 PM EST
SNL Kagan Tallies 81% Rise In Multicast Chs.
SNL Kagan, Feb 3, 2012, 1:44 PM EST
The media and communications business research firm's U.S. TV station database shows the total number of live over-the-air broadcast channels for the 1,726 full-power digital stations jumped to 4,552 at the end of 2011 from 2,518 at year-end 2010. Link | Comments (1)
Manufacturing Concerns Delaying Apple TV
DigiTimes, Feb 3, 2012, 7:35 AM EST
The chance is low for Apple to launch so-called iTV products in the second quarter of 2012 as there are no signs indicating that Sharp is ready to ship IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) panels to Apple, according to industry sources. Link | Comments (1)
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KPHO Phoenix Renovating Studios
Phoenix Business Journal, Feb 3, 2012, 7:30 AM EST
quarterly report
Harmonic 4Q Revenue Rises 4%
Devoncroft, Feb 3, 2012, 6:12 AM EST
SeaChange President Leaves, Won't Be Replaced
Devoncroft, Feb 3, 2012, 6:10 AM EST
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WIVB Buffalo Unveils New Set, HD News
NewscastStudio, Feb 2, 2012, 3:15 PM EST
Clickspring, Devlin Take Set Design Awards
NewscastStudio, Feb 2, 2012, 12:52 PM EST
Gearing Up For NAB: Cams for the one-man band
Getting The Shot Cheaper, Easier, Faster
TVNewsCheck, Feb 2, 2012, 12:09 PM EST
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JVC's ProHD GY-HM150
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. Among the options that will be featured at NAB 2012 are the Sony NX5, the JVC 150 and the Panasonic 250. Full Story | Comments (7)
Apple Talking To Parts Suppliers For Apple TV
TVBR, Feb 2, 2012, 6:29 AM EST
More evidence Apple is gearing up to launch its new Apple TV smart TV. It has contacted at least one major Asian supplier about purchasing television display components, according to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster. He told investors on Tuesday that he had recently spoken to a "major TV component supplier" that Apple had contacted "regarding various capabilities of their television display components." Link | Add comment
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FCC OKs Channel Substitution For KFXL Lincoln
Broadcast Engineering, Feb 2, 2012, 6:24 AM EST
quarterly reports
Hit By Yen, Floods, Sony Losses Mount
Associated Press, Feb 2, 2012, 6:17 AM EST
The Japanese electronics and entertainment company, which a day earlier announced that Kazuo Hirai will replace Howard Stringer as CEO and president effective April 1, said it predicts a net loss of 220 billion yen for the year through March, up from an earlier forecast of 90 billion yen. Full Story | Add comment
TVNewsCheck To Honor Fox's Andrea Berry
TVNewsCheck, Feb 2, 2012, 6:02 AM EST
The Fox SVP of media services will receive the annual Women in Technology Leadership Award at the NAB Show. This recognizes women who have contributed significantly toward advancing their industry technologically. It supports the National Association of Broadcasters Educational Foundation’s Technology Apprenticeship Program. 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)
Sony Promotes Kaz Hirai To CEO
Reuters, Feb 1, 2012, 5:50 AM EST
Sony Corp. said today that Vice President Kazuo Hirai will take over the roles of CEO and president on April 1 from Howard Stringer, who will retain the chairman's post as the company struggles to regain its standing in the consumer electronics sector in which it was once a driving force. Link | Comments (1)
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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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