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  • Jessell At Large: FCC Needs To Give OVDs MPVD Status

    That’s why I think the FCC's Sky Angel proceeding — in which it's considering whether it should regulate online video distributors like Sky Angel just as it now does cable and satellite operators — is so important. It could give stations a big and badly needed boost toward the Internet and on all those millions of desktops and mobile screens. More | Comments (5)

  • Front Office: MFM To Honor 13 At Annual Conference

    When the MFM convenes in Las Vegas next week, we will be recognizing 13 individual for their extraordinary contributions to the association and the media industry. More | Add comment

  • Spotlight: T&B Embracing Multiplatform, BXF Integration

    Broadcasters want traffic and billing systems that can handle ads for websites and mobile as adeptly as they do broadcast spots and that can integate seamlessly with master control automation. Vendors are doing their best to meet this demand. More | Add comment

  • Digital DMAs: Providence Old Media Slow On New Media

    In Rhode Island's capital, the traditional media outlets are mired in what one expert calls "an analog mindset," but a number of small independent startups are willing and eager to fill in the gaps in digital coverage left by the market's TV stations and newspaper. More | Comments (1)

  • Focus: More Sellers Than Buyers In Station Market

    With four significant TV station group deals within the past year, there is a growing number of groups up for sale. But right now few buyers are willing to pay the multiples that the sellers are demanding. “Owners are either going to have to take lower prices and come out under water or hold stations for another two years," says broker Larry Patrick. More | Comments (3)

  • Air Check: Local News Stories That Made A Difference

    TVNewsCheck is occasionally featuring examples of exceptional TV station reporting from across the country. Here are the first four, taking on everything from fraud, wasteful spending and public safety to a parking lot owner with a penchant for driving other people’s cars. More | Comments (1)

Special Reports

  • NAB 2012: Everything you need to know about broadcasting's biggest tech event of the year.
  • Gearing Up For NAB 2012: The top tech trends and issues.
  • FCC Watch: 18 Topics In 244 Words Or Less: Get briefed on what's happening at broadcasting's favorite regulatory agency by top Washington communications attorneys David Oxenford and Brendan Holland.
  • 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.
  • TOP 30 TV STATION GROUPS: Fox Television Stations is No. 1 in the revenue-based rankings, followed by the groups of the other major broadcast networks: CBS, NBC and ABC, with Tribune rounding out the top five.

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Media Financial Management Association
Media Financial Focus 2012
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National Cable & Telecommunications Association
The Cable Show
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NAB Education Foundation
Celebration of Service to America Awards
Washington, DC
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PromaxBDA
The Conference 2012
Los Angeles, CA

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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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Promax Station Summit v2.0 Set For June '12
TVNewsCheck, Nov 28, 2011, 7:01 PM EST
Bouyed by the success of its first conference for station creative services pros, the association is ramping up for next year by doing more of what worked, fine-tuning other aspects and developing "new sessions on best practices in technology and in social and earned media,” says PromaxBDA President-CEO Jonathan Block-Verk. Full Story | Add comment
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Powerful CMS Puts Clips At Your Fingertips
TVNewsCheck, Nov 15, 2011, 5:51 AM EST
DG Entertainment’s TVPro/MoviePro content management system can find just the right clip from TV shows or films by entering key words that describe characters, action, dialog and location. Even more importantly, all of that content is cross-referenced and annotated in context, using metatags. Full Story | Add comment
Market Share/PromaxBDA Gold
KDAF News Explains Why More Is More
TVNewsCheck, Oct 24, 2011, 10:29 AM EDT
Tribune’s CW affiliate in Dallas created a promo campaign that skillfully blended cutting-edge references to on-demand coverage and social media with an in-your-face attitude, lightened by flashes of wit and plenty of attitude. Full Story | Comments (12)
Market Share/PromaxBDA Gold
KNBC Hits Right Notes With ‘Rock Treasures’
TVNewsCheck, Oct 11, 2011, 5:44 AM EDT
The Los Angeles O&O promoted a special news series with a rapidly produced collage using never-before-seen photos, postcards and handwritten notes of such rock ’n’ roll greats as the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and, most notably, the Beatles. Full Story | Add comment
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NBCU Gives Off-Net ‘30 Rock’ Local Spins
TVNewsCheck, Sep 27, 2011, 6:40 AM EDT
To promote the broadcast syndication launch of the Tina Fey sitcom, NBCU Domestic Television engaged DG Entertainment and 2C Media to help it create a promotion campaign that had a number of goals: to introduce the show to each station’s audience; to emphasize its sharp and funny inside view of the TV buiness; and develop special local appeal through a series of custom, personalized spots. Full Story | Add comment
Market Share/PromaxBDA Gold
WRC Afternoon Promo Has The Right Moves
TVNewsCheck, Aug 30, 2011, 5:42 AM EDT
Advertising and promotion staffs at the NBC O&O in Washington had to let viewers know of the changes to the station’s afternoon lineup. They came up with a clever play off of Ellen DeGeneres’ love of dancing to bring viewers to a local show, followed by Ellen and then to its three-hour 4 p.m. news block. Full Story | Add comment
Market Share/PromaxBDA Gold
WNUV Sitcom Promo Cures Rating Doldrums
TVNewsCheck, Aug 16, 2011, 5:47 AM EDT
When WNUV Baltimore wanted to garner attention for its 6-8 p.m. Simpsons-Family Guy block in the fall, On-Air Promotions Supervisor Stephanie Madara decided to use a parody of the Antonio Banderas-voiced Nasonex allergy commercial. The result is a 20-second spot that promises relief from sinus problems by staying inside and watching the two animated shows. It won the Promax/BDA Local Awards Gold for “Best Daypart/Block of Programs Spot” and boosted viewing by adults 18-49 and two male demos. Full Story | Comments (1)
Special Report: Severe Weather
Serious Weather Is Serious Business
TVNewsCheck, Aug 3, 2011, 8:14 AM EDT
Meteorologists in the hurricane-prone Gulf and Atlantic coastal areas say they’re conscious of the power they wield and try to be careful with it, realizing the profound impact severe weather news and related promotion can have not only on people, but also on local economies. They also stress the importance of social media as an adjunct to broadcasting, contending that in a weather emergency, television screens are not the only place that citizens will be looking for critical information. This is the third in a series of articles that will appear this week and that collectively constitute a TVNewsCheck Special Report on Severe Weather News. The first two stories in the series are below. Full Story | Add comment
Market Share/PromaxBDA Gold
'Real New Yorker' Promos Are The Real Deal
TVNewsCheck, Jul 17, 2011, 8:07 PM EDT
NY1, Time Warner's cable news channel in the Big Apple, wanted to reinforce its position as the city's quintessential news channel. Its Real New Yorker campaign, a sharp-eyed series of promos that offer up fast-moving snapshots of daily life from the jaded but affectionate perspective of native New Yorkers, did just that. One of them even got the mayor to toughen up fines for cab drivers who refuse inconvenient fares. Full Story | Add comment
Market Share/PromaxBDA Gold
WCCO Image Spot Eases Anchor Transition
TVNewsCheck, Jul 5, 2011, 8:25 AM EDT
With the help of its "Always" image campaign, WCCO Minneapolis successfully transitioned from retiring anchor Don Shelby to the new husband-wife team of Frank Vascellero and Amelia Santaniello. The campaign managed to remind viewers of the station's long history and dominance in the market without suggesting it was "old and stodgy." This is the first in a series profiling winners of PromaxBDA LocalAwards for excellence in TV station promos. Full Story | Comments (1)
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  • David Wiegand

    Fans of Sex and the City have finally gotten their wish: Their beloved sex-focused sitcom is back on the air ... sort of. The four women have become four men, of course, and the writing isn't as good. Oh, and the laugh track so annoying, it's offensive. And did I mention that the costumes would be considered fashionable if you were holding a yard sale? Men at Work on TBS is almost quaint, it's so old fashioned. If it had any meat on its bones, you'd be tempted to say it's the sadly ignoble epitome of TV's long-festering emasculated-men syndrome. But it's so much of a big, forgettable, innocuous shrug, it's not even worth any actual vitriol.

  • Mike Hale

    The USA Network's motto is "Characters Welcome." Apparently they're especially welcome if they resemble Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. Already stocked with Odd Couple knockoffs in Psych and White Collar, USA adds to its inventory Common Law, another comic crime-fighting show about mismatched partners. But this latest entry exhibits very little of that kind of spark as it tries to wring laughs from the juxtaposition of counseling and police work. It looks too flat and schematically plotted to succeed as the type of lightweight summer fun we’ve come to expect from USA.

  • Joanne Ostrow

    Johnny Carson: Fantastic entertainer, miserable human being. That's the lasting message of Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, the new PBS American Masters film, a rich history of a rare product of television who dominated the small screen for decades. Unprecedented access to personal archives plus all existing episodes of The Tonight Show (1962-92), distinguishes this film by Peter Jones. Telling interviews with family and colleagues, including second wife Joanne Carson, former Tonight Show executive producer Peter Lassally and a number of biographers sharpen the picture. The clips are carefully selected to illustrate specific personality traits, the performance highlights are given context and meaning beyond funny lines and memorable moments.

  • Hank Stuever

    AMC's The Pitch is a sharply-made if slightly off-putting reality series that follows different advertising agencies each week as they compete for new accounts. The inspiration for the show — made clear by its own ad campaign — is to harness some of the verve generated by the network's acclaimed Mad Men. The Pitch has a way of making the ad world seem like a real downer — a repugnant exercise in egotism laced with depressing bouts of creative compromise.

  • Tim Goodman

    HBO's Veep stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as former Sen. Selina Meyer, who accepts the vice presidential duty and regrets it almost immediately: She has no real power and gets muscled by the Senate, Congress and the (so-far-unseen) president, who delegates all the truly crappy jobs to her. Louis-Dreyfus has found perhaps her best post-Seinfeld role and takes to it with such fervor — the constant swearing, the barely veiled desire to become president, the unhappy give-and-take with other politicians and a delightful disdain for average citizens — that you can't help but applaud what is clearly an Emmy-worthy effort. Her work alone makes Veep a gem, but there's even more to like.

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