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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)
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Broadcast Television: Still No. 1 At CES
TVNewsCheck, Jan 19, 2012, 1:49 PM EST
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show was overflowing with TV technology. For the creative, forward-thinking marketer there was an abundance of innovative ways to reach television-loving consumers, and TV broadcasters were squarely in that game with mobile DTV. With mobile DTV, marketers will have the opportunity to establish the deepest connection with consumers through the reach of television, their relationship with local news and entertainment, the interactivity of the Web and the intimacy of personal devices. Full Story | Comments (5)
CES 2012 Reflections
Will The Bet On Smart TV Pay Off?
Sports Video Group, Jan 18, 2012, 7:56 AM EST
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YouTube Betting Big On Web Video
Washington Post, Jan 13, 2012, 10:58 AM EST
In the next decade, 75% of all channels will be born on the Internet. That's the bold prediction of the day from Robert Kyncl, the head of global partnerships for YouTube. In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Kyncl said the Web is poised to become the premium channel for entertainment distribution within the next decade. Link | Add comment
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FCC Chair Warns Of Mobile 'Spectrum Crunch'
CNET, Jan 12, 2012, 3:26 PM EST
In a keynote address yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski sounded a warning for mobile broadband users. "We're threatened by a looming spectrum crunch," Genachowski said. "This is the dark cloud around the silver lining." Link | Comments (2)
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CES Report: Top Trends On Exhibit
Sports Video Group, Jan 12, 2012, 3:24 PM EST
The Consumer Electronics Show always offers an enticing mix of new products that will play pivotal roles in consumer-electronics showrooms, new products that will never see the light of day beyond the exhibition, and new concepts that hint at the future of content consumption. Here are a few highlights from the show floor. Link | Add comment
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Hulu Plus Expects To Hit 1.2M Subscriptions
MediaPost, Jan 12, 2012, 2:54 PM EST
At the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday, Jonathan Miller, chairman and CEO of News Digital Media and chief digital officer of News Corp., said subscriptions of Hulu Plus are on a faster track than expected. Link | Add comment
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Mobile DTV Demonstrates Progress At CES
TVNewsCheck, Jan 12, 2012, 11:54 AM EST
Broadcaster-owned MCV and Mobile500 showed devices and apps that they say consumers may use to receive their broadcast-based mobile services later this year. But neither had a launch date or particulars about programming. Meanwhile, Syncbak demonstrated its authentication technology designed to give copyright holders comfort that the programming TV stations put on broadband networks will stay in their local markets. Full Story | Comments (9)
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FCC Chief Sees Incentive Auction Support
Reuters, Jan 12, 2012, 6:06 AM EST
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said on Wednesday that he has received bipartisan support from a group of U.S. senators for so-called "incentive" auctions of spectrum without legislative restrictions. Link | Comments (3)
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Sony Outlines Plan To Revitalize TV Group
Los Angeles Times, Jan 11, 2012, 6:55 AM EST
Sony used the backdrop of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to talk about the company's plans to revitalize its struggling television division. Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai said new technologies, such as the Crystal LED prototype the company showcased Monday in its news conference, will factor in plans to return the TV group to profitability by March 2014. Link | Add comment
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CES Attracts Record Number Of Exhibitors
Associated Press, Jan 11, 2012, 5:48 AM EST
The Consumer Electronics Association says the annual show has more than 3,100 exhibitors, up from a pre-show estimate of 2,800-plus. The show usually has just over 2,700 exhibitors, but dipped to 2,500 in 2010. It opened Tuesday and is expected to draw more than 140,000 attendees. Full Story | Add comment
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JVC Unveils Handheld 4k Camcorder
TVNewsCheck, Jan 10, 2012, 3:47 PM EST
The new GY-HMQ10 records at four times resolution of 1080p to SDHC/SDXC media cards. Full Story | Add comment
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Samsung Intros ‘Super OLED’, Improves Smart Hub
Sports Video Group, Jan 10, 2012, 3:42 PM EST
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NBC, Panasonic Team for Olympics 3D
Sports Video Group, Jan 10, 2012, 3:40 PM EST
This summer, NBC will air 200 hours of the London games produced by the host Olympic Broadcast Services using Panasonic 3D gear. The 3D coverage of gymastics, diving, swimming and other events will be recorded and broadcast a day later. Link | Add comment
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TVs You Can Talk To Without Sounding Crazy
Associated Press, Jan 10, 2012, 2:39 PM EST
LG Electronics will sell a remote with its high-end flat-panel TVs that contains a microphone. You'll be able to speak into the microphone to enter text on the TV for Twitter updates and Web searches. But you still won't be able to change the channel or control the volume by yelling at the TV. Full Story | Add comment
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LG Intros Large OLED, Is Bullish On Passive 3D
Sports Video Group, Jan 10, 2012, 7:43 AM EST
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Though Not At CES, Apple Presence Is Strong
Los Angeles Times, Jan 10, 2012, 6:51 AM EST
Apple casts a huge shadow over the world's largest consumer electronics show as rumors continue to spread that it has its own TV in the works. Link | Add comment
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Microsoft, Fox Set TV, News, Web Video Apps
TVNewsCheck, Jan 10, 2012, 6:24 AM EST
Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox News Channel, IGN Entertainment and the Wall Street Journal will launch apps for Xbox this year. Full Story | Add comment
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Will Broadcasters Balk At Dish's Auto DVR?
Deadline.com, Jan 9, 2012, 7:54 AM EST
Dish Network is looking to make a splash at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — but one announcement, which leaked out prematurely, could raise the ire of ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. Dish's new multi-room DVR, Hopper, will automatically record primetime broadcasts from local stations for ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC and retain those shows for a week — in effect turning Hopper into into a catch-up VOD service. Link | Add comment
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CES 2012 Buzz: What To Expect In Vegas
Sports Video Group, Jan 9, 2012, 7:31 AM EST
A few things we know — the buzz around 3D continues to peter out after peaking at CES 2010, tablets and e-readers continue to find their way into more consumers hands, and "thin is in" as the hottest TV's, laptops, tablets and phones will be thinner than ever in 2012. Link | Add comment
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CES 2012: The Perils Of Ubiquity
Washington Post, Jan 9, 2012, 6:45 AM EST
The Consumer Electronics Association has made an aggressive effort to broaden its appeal and roster of members in recent years, expanding the categories of companies it represents to include automakers, major retailers and medical device manufacturers, among others. Link | Add comment
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Belkin Debuts Its Dyle Mobile DTV Dongle
TVNewsCheck, Jan 9, 2012, 5:47 AM EST
The unit, which attaches to the bottom of the Apple iPads and iPhones, contains a mobile DTV tuner and turns conventional earphones into a receive antenna that can pull in UHF and high-band VHF signals. Full Story | Comments (1)
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CES Buzz On TVs Up, Tablets Down
MediaPost, Jan 6, 2012, 6:06 AM EST
What's generating buzz in the buildup to that technology industry bacchanalia known as CES? The most talk is still around tablets but TVs are seeing the biggest year-over-year gains in online buzz, according to new data from Nielsen's NM Incite unit. Link | Add comment
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LG Releasing Google TV-Based Smart TV
Apple Insider, Jan 6, 2012, 5:53 AM EST
LG has taken the wraps off its first Google TV-powered television set, even as rumors of an Apple television loom over the industry. Link | Add comment
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'CES Curse?' Gadget Show Has Poor Record
Associated Press, Jan 6, 2012, 5:45 AM EST
When the annual conclave kicks off next week, organizers expect more than 140,000 people  to descend on Las Vegas. The 2,800 or so exhibitors are hoping to set the tone for the year by showing off tons of tablet computers, throngs of 3D TVs and untold numbers of slim, light laptops called ultrabooks. But a look back at the products heavily promoted at CES in recent years reveals few successes. Full Story | Add comment
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Mobile DTV Set For Center Stage At CES
TVNewsCheck, Jan 5, 2012, 12:07 PM EST
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At next week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, broadcasters will show off the latest developments in mobile DTV, including the app that MetroPCS will be using to market MCV's Dyle-branded service and Mobile500's new external dongle receivers that plug into iPhones and iPads and feature a virtual DVR. Other attractions for broadcasters at the exhibition will be smart connected TVs, OTT developments, voice-driven devices, tablets and ultrabooks.   Full Story | Comments (7)

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Symbol Last Change (%)
Nasdaq 2839.38 -10.74 (-0.38%)
NYSE 7552.36 +11.46 (+0.15%)
S&P 500 1320.68 +1.82 (+0.14%)
Updated 05/24 5:37p ET Quotes delayed at least 20 mins.
Source: Financial Content

Ratings

Overnights, adults 18-49 for May 23, 2012
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Source: Nielsen
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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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