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executive session with Mathilde piard
Social Monetizes With Shrapnel, Not Bullets
NetNewsCheck, Mar 19, 2012, 7:00 AM EDT
Mathilde Piard, the social media director at Cox Media Group, says that currently there is no silver bullet for monetizing social media. Instead, it’s more like shrapnel — making money here and there. But the biggest reason CMG and other media players are concentrating on social media is because their advertisers want it. Link | Comments (1)
TVNewsCheck Focus on Programming
‘Right This Minute’ Hopes Its Time Has Come
TVNewsCheck, Feb 29, 2012, 8:21 AM EST
E.W. Scripps, Cox Media Group and Raycom Media are betting other stations will want to air its syndicated video clip show, in which five TV news vets riff and report on whatever the producers can find of interest on the Web and elsewhere. The mix of news and entertainment is produced as two back-to-back half-hours, giving stations the option of splitting up the episodes into different time slots or buying the show as a single half-hour. Full Story | Comments (2)
Cox Media Group Ohio Makes Exec Moves
TVNewsCheck, Jan 25, 2012, 8:08 AM EST
TVNewsCheck Focus on New Media
Stations Amp Up Viewing With OTT Apps
TVNewsCheck, Oct 12, 2011, 8:09 AM EDT
Over the past year or so, dozens of TV stations have begun quietly experimenting with technology that can deliver content to Internet-connected TV sets and conventional TVs linked to the Net through Blu-ray players, game consoles, DVRs and specially designed set-top boxes from Roku, Western Digital and others. These over-the-top (OTT) apps promise to extend their brands and drive revenue. Full Story | Comments (3)
Executive Session with Doug Franklin
Merging Media Powers Cox’s Digital Drive
TVNewsCheck, Sep 19, 2011, 8:49 AM EDT
The president of Cox Media Group is focused on strengthening the digital offerings of the 15 TV stations, eight newspapers and 85 radio stations that he oversees. For broadcasting, digital may be a hedge. But for newspapers, it's critical as their days as a printed product are uncertain. He sees an eventual transition to tablets and, hopefully, a dual revenue stream. The self-confessed “newspaper guy” is bullish on broadcasting and says 2012 is shaping up to be a good year with political money and improving automotive advertising. Full Story | Comments (2)
Cox Names Katie Reid A Senior Revenue Director
TVNewsCheck, Jun 22, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT
Cox Stations Choose LiveU For Mobile Uplink
TVNewsCheck, Jun 8, 2011, 10:47 AM EDT
WPXI Pittsburgh Hires Cedric Thomas For Sales
TVNewsCheck, Jun 7, 2011, 8:36 AM EDT
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Cox Ups WSB GM Hoffman, McVay Successor
TVNewsCheck, May 31, 2011, 4:04 PM EDT
Bill Hoffman (right) moves from head of the Atlanta ABC affiliate to oversee Cox Media Group's TV, radio and newspaper operations. He's succeeded at WSB by Tim McVay, now VP-GM of Cox's KTVU Oakland. Full Story | Comments (3)
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Cox/Raycom/Scripps Show Plans Soft Launch
TVNewsCheck, Apr 7, 2011, 5:55 PM EDT
The hour-long RightThisMinute that combines on-air journalism with the interactivity of social media, using the Internet, mobile, social media and citizen journalists will debut on select stations this fall with plans for national distribution in 2012. Full Story | Comments (4)
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Journalism Prof Named WJAC News Director
TVNewsCheck, Mar 22, 2011, 8:56 AM EDT
Penn State instructor James Platzer, who began his career WJAC in 1990 as a part-time photographer, was news director at WFMY Greenboro, N.C., and WAND Decatur, Ill. WJAC is an NBC affiliate owned by Cox Media Group. Full Story | Add comment
Air Check by Diana Marszalek
Cox Ohio Media Share Space, But Not Scoops
TVNewsCheck, Feb 28, 2011, 12:13 PM EST
While working together on a 14-acre Media Center, WHIO Dayton, three radio stations, four daily and four weekly papers plus digital properties cooperate on some stories, “we are staying away like the plague from the homogenization of news,” says Alex Taylor, the Cox VP for Dayton. “Reporters are still going to compete against each other.” Full Story | Add comment
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Cox Taps Kevin Hayes To Lead WJAC
TVNewsCheck, Feb 15, 2011, 3:54 PM EST
The station group promotes him from general sales manager at its KFOX El Paso, Texas, to VP-GM in Johnstown-Altoona, Pa. Full Story | Add comment
Williams Named Publisher Of Statesman Co.
Cox Enterprises, Jan 31, 2011, 3:16 PM EST
Cox Media Group's VP of Sales Jane Williams is the new publisher of the Austin American-Statesman and The Statesman Co., which publishes newspapers and websites and also acts as a regional commercial printer and distribution company. Link | Add comment
Cox Ups Siegler To Tech VP
TVNewsCheck, Jan 24, 2011, 5:24 PM EST
The current broadcast operations director at Cox’s WSOC-WXAN Charlotte, N.C., Dave Siegler, will oversee technical operations for the entire group. Full Story | Add comment
Capex 2011
Back Office Is Front Of Mind At Cox Stations
TVNewsCheck, Jan 13, 2011, 10:26 AM EST
Sterling Davis of the Cox Media Group talks about what's on this year's tech to-do list at his 15 stations. In addition to upgrades and replacements, the big push will be consolidating the back-office business operations and the IT facilities as part of a multi-year project. Other priorities include rolling out the BXF interface between traffic and master control and extending mobile DTV capability to a few more stations. Full Story | Add comment
Top Cox Tech Exec Sterling Davis To Retire
TVNewsCheck, Dec 15, 2010, 11:24 AM EST
The last day of this year will be Davis' last day as VP of technical operations at the Cox Media Group, but he plans to stay on as a consultant for another year and continue to represent the multimedia company on industry committees, including the technical arms of the Association for Maximum Service Television and the Open Mobile Video Coalition. Full Story | Comments (3)
Cox Adopts Diaquest QueManager For Graphics
TVNewsCheck, Nov 3, 2010, 11:34 AM EDT

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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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