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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)

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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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  • Remembering 9/11: TVNewsCheck looks back 10 years after the attacks with a series of five articles.
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Media Financial Focus 2012
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Adrienne Bankert To Co-Anchor KTVT A.M. News
TVNewsCheck, May 22, 2012, 8:21 AM EDT
TV Remote Inventor Eugene Polley Dies At 96
TVNewsCheck, May 22, 2012, 7:39 AM EDT
Eugene Polley started his career with Zenith Radio Corp. in 1935. His 47-year engineering career spanned the pioneering days of radio, black-and-white television and color TV. His inventions, primarily in the field of television, earned 18 U.S. patents. According to Zenith, Polley's best known invention, the "Flash-Matic" remote control, was the world's first wireless TV remote, introduced in 1955. Full Story | Add comment
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Fox's 'House' Closes After Eight Seasons
TVNewsCheck, May 22, 2012, 6:04 AM EDT
For Dr. Gregory House, boring had always been life's least tolerable state. The satisfying one-hour finale — the series' 177th episode — served well as a reminder: House seldom was. Full Story | Add comment
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KSAZ Phoenix To Air Warner Bros.’ ‘TMZ Live’
TVNewsCheck, May 22, 2012, 5:52 AM EDT
The Fox O&O will begin a six-week test run of the behind-the-scenes spinoff beginning June 11 at 3 p.m. Full Story | Add comment
NBCU In Multiplatform Deal With Michelle Beadle
TVNewsCheck, May 21, 2012, 4:48 PM EDT
Tribune, Weigel, CBS Stations Add ES Sitcoms
TVNewsCheck, May 21, 2012, 4:39 PM EDT
The First Family and Mr. Box Office are launching in fall 2012 in 85% of U.S. television homes with initial orders of 104 episodes each. Full Story | Add comment
Corin Nelson To EP Queen Latifah Talker
TVNewsCheck, May 21, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
The former executive at The Nate Berkus Show, MTV Networks, Chelsea Lately and The Rosie O'Donnell Show will oversee the fall 2013 talker from Sony Pictures Television. Full Story | Add comment
Ion Life Adds Eight New Series For Next Season
TVNewsCheck, May 21, 2012, 8:47 AM EDT
Jessell At Large
FCC Needs To Give OVDs MPVD Status
TVNewsCheck, May 18, 2012, 3:04 PM EDT
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. Full Story | Comments (5)
First Look: Ricki Lake Show' Promo Teaser
TVNewsCheck, May 18, 2012, 2:24 PM EDT
In advance of its Sept. 10 syndication debut, The Ricki Lake Show today released this promo. Twentieth Television says of Lake: "She's not a doctor, therapist or a super homemaker — she's a working mom trying to figure life out, and inviting her audience along for the ride."
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FRONT OFFICE BY MARY COLLINS
MFM To Honor 13 At Annual Conference
TVNewsCheck, May 18, 2012, 8:43 AM EDT
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. They are Neil Johnston, Cox Media; J. Michael Hines, Dow Lohnes; Larry Marcus, Marcus Strategies; Bonnie Krabbenhoft, Scripps Networks; Scott Jenkins, ESPN; Eugene Levin, Entercom Communications; Jennifer Crabtree, Local TV LLC; John Sanders, Bond & Pecaro; Robert Vonick, Walt Disney Co.; Gary Hoipkemier, Schurz  Communications; Craig Martell, Oracle; Francois McGillicuddy; and Demeta Peterbark, BET Networks. Full Story | Add comment
Weekly Station Trading Roundup
LIN-New Vision Tops A Week Of TV Sales
TVNewsCheck, May 18, 2012, 5:56 AM EDT
The $342 million sale of 16 stations is one of five TV station transactions submitted to the FCC for its approval during the week ending May 14, according to BIA Kelsey. Full Story | Add comment
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KVDA San Antonio To Launch Newscasts
TVNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 7:14 PM EDT
Beginning May 21, Telenoticias San Antonio will air Monday through Friday at 5 and 10 p.m. in high definition. Full Story | Add comment
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WTVJ Miami Ups Adam Kuperstein To Anchor
TVNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 2:40 PM EDT
NBCU Clears Off-Net ‘Baggage’ In 95% Of US
TVNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 11:35 AM EDT
The relationship game show from GSN, hosted By Jerry Springer, is set to premiere on TV stations on Sept. 17. Full Story | Add comment
Berkshire Buying Media General Papers
TVNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 8:23 AM EDT

The $142 million deal “accelerates the timing of our strategy to focus on our broadcast television business and its future growth opportunities, including digital content and mobile DTV,” said Media General CEO Marshall Morton Full Story | Comments (5)

Tech Spotlight
T&B Embracing Multiplatform, BXF Integration
TVNewsCheck, May 17, 2012, 7:38 AM EDT
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. Says Larry Keene of the Traffic Directors Guild of America: “Every traffic software person we’ve spoken to in the last month and a half...is telling us the attention being given to mobile and Web is almost equaling the time and efforts taken for the TV.” Full Story | Add comment
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KQFX Airing KMIZ Early News At 7 A.M.
TVNewsCheck, May 16, 2012, 5:52 PM EDT
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KCET, APT Syndicate 'Your Turn To Care'
TVNewsCheck, May 16, 2012, 5:10 PM EDT
Upfronts
MundoFox Unveils Initial Programming Slate
TVNewsCheck, May 16, 2012, 4:59 PM EDT
The new U.S. Spanish-language broadcast network launches this summer with a mix of original news and entertainment content, as well as exclusive sports events. Full Story | Add comment
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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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