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Belo Launches Next-Gen Smartphone Apps
TVNewsCheck, May 14, 2012, 11:16 AM EDT
The new iPhone and Android apps are rolled out by stations in 15 markets Including Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Seattle and Phoenix. Full Story | Add comment
Belo Promotes Valentine and Weir
TVNewsCheck, Jan 10, 2012, 3:35 PM EST
Michael Valentine has been named vice president/content for the 15 Belo TV stations, while Joe Weir becomes vice president/digital. Full Story | Add comment
BIA/Kelsey ILM West 2011
Belo's Weir: Quality Will Keep Deals Alive
NetNewsCheck, Dec 14, 2011, 7:13 AM EST
Belo GM of interactive Joe Weir and a panel of media and daily deals executives told ILM West attendees that the crowded deals space needs to improve deal quality and find different ways to reach consumers to keep them coming back. Link | Add comment
10 Groups, ConnecTV To Offer 2nd Screen
TVNewsCheck, Nov 15, 2011, 6:16 AM EST
The partnership will offer a "second screen" app in early 2012, allowing viewers to tap into related content and swap comments with friends watching the same broadcast TV show at the same time. Broadcasters hope the app with lead to increased revenue, greater engagement and better tune-in promotion. Participating station groups include those of Pearl, the joint venture formed last year to pursue the mobile DTV business. They include Belo, Cox, Scripps, Gannett, Hearst Television, Media General, Meredith, Post-Newsweek and Raycom. Full Story | Comments (2)
Executive Session with Byron Harris
Investigative Reporting Outlook Not Bright
TVNewsCheck, Sep 26, 2011, 8:00 AM EDT
One of local TV's most accomplished investigative reporters, WFAA Dallas' Byron Harris believes he may be part of a dying breed as broadcasters fixated on the bottom line keep cutting the people and resources needed for in-depth reporting. But for now he is happy to be with Belo, one of the few station groups committed to its investigative tradition. Full Story | Comments (28)
Belo Announces 5¢ Quarterly Dividend
Sep 23, 2011, 11:25 AM EDT
Air Check by Diana Marszalek
DC Bureaus Give Stations A Local Edge
TVNewsCheck, Jul 26, 2011, 7:19 AM EDT
As TV stations struggle to distinguish themselves with hyperlocal strategies, one old solution is looking new again. A number of station groups — including Hearst, Belo, Cox, Gannett and Scripps — are finding that the specialized, localized reporting they get from their Washington bureaus has become a differentiator for them. As the head of Cox's bureau says: "Our sole mission is to give stations hyper-local, unique coverage they can’t find anywhere else.” Full Story | Comments (2)
TVNewsCheck Focus on Business
McGraw-Hill Sale Could Fetch $200 Million
TVNewsCheck, Jul 20, 2011, 8:29 AM EDT
McGraw-Hill has begun shopping its four-station group and is said to be drawing interest from the likes of Nexstar, Meredith and Belo. Based on its financials for 2010 and 2011, the group is worth between $150 million and $200 million, although bidding and the expection of big revenue gains from political advertising in 2012 could push the number higher. Full Story | Comments (1)
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KTVK Ties Facebook Push To Social Good
Lost Remote, Jun 3, 2011, 7:20 AM EDT
Belo’s KTVK and AZFamily.com in Phoenix have launched a Facebook initiative to donate bottles of water to the Salvation Army as the summer months heat up. It’s a different twist on increasingly-popular Facebook contests designed to drum up more fans. Link | Add comment
Belo Copes With Auto Ad Losses
MediaPost, May 20, 2011, 8:17 AM EDT
Belo CFO Carey Hendrickson said the station group has experienced cancellations by auto advertisers related to the trouble in Japan, but not at an unanticipated level. That has "remained within our initial expectations" for the second quarter," he told investors. Link | Add comment
Belo Executive Shot And Killed Last Friday
Dallas Morning News, Apr 25, 2011, 10:50 AM EDT
Steve McIntosh, VP and general manager of Belo Advertising Customer Service, was gunned down last Friday in Arlington, Texas, by a college student who then killed himself. The incident happened in front of a school where McIntosh had gone to pick up his three-year-old daugther. Police are still trying to piece the incident together, but they know that the gunman, as a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, had received counseling from McIntosh's wife. McIntosh was 42. Link | Add comment
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KHOU Ups Lyons To Sales Director
TVNewsCheck, Mar 22, 2011, 4:16 PM EDT
After helping to lead the Belo Corp. Houston station through troubled times, Dan Lyons was a key reason why it overachieved its sales goals in 2010. Full Story | Add comment
Execs: TV Future Not Bound By Tradition
NetNewsCheck, Mar 22, 2011, 2:20 PM EDT
Belo Corp.'s Belinda Baldwin and Fisher Communications' Randa Minkarah told atendees of a broadcaster special interest group breakfast at BIA/Kelsey ILM East that while people are still watching TV, they are no longer bound by traditional delivery methods. Link | Add comment
Capex 2011
Belo's Stations On A Mobile Mission
TVNewsCheck, Feb 24, 2011, 11:47 AM EST
Belo’s Tech VP Craig Harper is overseeing the group’s staggered rollout of mobile DTV. He will be going to this year’s NAB Show with that on his agenda. Other action items for Harper and Belo include upgrading field acquisition and editing at eight stations and looking to improve news ingestion in multiple video formats and quickly make it available for broadcast, for the Web and any other medium. Full Story | Comments (1)
ABC, CBS Getting Reverse Comp From Belo
TVNewsCheck, Feb 8, 2011, 3:40 PM EST
The publicly traded station group is paying the networks for programming on its four ABC and five CBS affiliates. Full Story | Comments (2)
Belo Provided 151 Candidates Free Airtime
TVNewsCheck, Jan 6, 2011, 3:06 PM EST
The group owner says its stations gave free time to 151 congressional and gubernatorial candidates across the U.S. during the 2010 elections. Full Story | Add comment
UBS global media conference
Belo Expects Rev Growth Of 18% In 2010
TVNewsCheck, Dec 7, 2010, 10:26 AM EST
CEO Dunia Shive says the TV station group's core revenue should be up 9% for the year in addition to the more than $55 million in political ad money. She sees growth ahead next year, but not quite as strong as in '10. Full Story | Add comment
Belo Launches Group Buying Program
TVNewsCheck, Nov 11, 2010, 10:15 AM EST
With Yollar.com, the broadcaster is offering consumers alerts, deals and discount offers from local businesses. Belo's stations share in the revenue collected from the sale of vouchers as part of the partnership with advertisers. Full Story | Comments (2)
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KHOU Providing Hyperlocal Weather
TVNewsCheck, Nov 10, 2010, 5:18 PM EST
The Belo Houston CBS affiliate will offer real-time, geographically targeted weather conditions to Bayou City Media's community websites. 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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