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Calvert Collins Joins KDFW Dallas As Reporter
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May 23, 2012, 5:35 PM EDT
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Legend: Dave Ward Eats, Sleeps & Breathes Houston
The anchor has been with ABC O&O KTRK since 1966, and remains an iconic newscaster who still delivers No. 1 ratings in the No. 10 DMA. At 73, he’s got no plans to go anywhere else. “They’ll probably carry me out of here feet first,” he says. More | Add comment
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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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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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ABC App Gets You Moving In The A.M.
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May 23, 2012, 3:55 PM EDT
The free iPhone and iPod Touch alarm clock app, available through the iTunes Store, also features custom wake-up tracks from station anchors. Full Story
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WADL Drops Syndicated News For Reruns
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May 23, 2012, 3:55 PM EDT
The Detroit independent is replacing News@9 with The Parkers, One on One and Girlfriends. Full Story
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Judge Judy Launches WhatWouldJudySay.com
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May 23, 2012, 3:52 PM EDT
Rentrak, MasterCard In Media Data Deal
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May 23, 2012, 2:55 PM EDT
The strategic alliance links Rentrak's census-based TV viewing ratings to MasterCard's consumer trend data for deeper audience insights. Full Story
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TVB Road Shows Drive Sales, Pump Up AEs
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May 23, 2012, 9:32 AM EDT
EVS Appoints Joop Janssen CEO-Managing Dir.
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May 23, 2012, 8:17 AM EDT
Scripps Replaces Syndies With Own Shows
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May 22, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
Beginning Sept. 17, Let’s Ask America and The List will move into access and early fringe lineups in seven markets. When contracts for syndicated shows expire in the remaining Scripps markets (Detroit, Denver, San Diego, Indianapolis, West Palm Beach, Fla., and Bakersfield, Calif.), the two new half-hours will move into those timeslots. The series will be made available outside of the Scripps markets through Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for a fall 2013 national launch. Full Story
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Weekly syndicated ratings roundup
'Judy' Is Only Court To Post Weekly Gain
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May 22, 2012, 1:27 PM EDT
Other shows bucking the flat to down trend in the week ending May 13 included Dr. Phil, Ellen, Anderson, and a few magazine and game shows. Full Story
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Rod Perth Named New NATPE President-CEO
The TV executive who succeeds Rick Feldman takes over immediately and will oversee the organization’s 50th anniversary conference next year in Miami. Full Story
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May 22, 2012, 12:49 PM EDT
Live Well Network Renews ‘Steven And Chris’
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May 22, 2012, 10:25 AM EDT
Weekly Station Trading Roundup
Three NC LPTVs Sell For $86,000
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May 22, 2012, 10:17 AM EDT
The sale by DTV Enterprises to Tutt Media Group in Jacksonville and Kinston is the only TV station transaction submitted to the FCC for its approval during the week ending May 21, according to BIA Kelsey. Full Story
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TV Remote Inventor Eugene Polley Dies At 96
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
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May 22, 2012, 7:39 AM EDT
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Fox's 'House' Closes After Eight Seasons
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May 22, 2012, 6:04 AM EDT
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KSAZ Phoenix To Air Warner Bros.’ ‘TMZ Live’
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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
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NBCU In Multiplatform Deal With Michelle Beadle
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May 21, 2012, 4:48 PM EDT
Tribune, Weigel, CBS Stations Add ES Sitcoms
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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
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Corin Nelson To EP Queen Latifah Talker
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
