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Me-TV Signs KATU Portland As Affiliate
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May 15, 2012, 11:18 AM EDT
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Sales Focus: TVB Road Shows Drive Sales, Pump Up AEs
The trade group’s presentations across the country gather all of a market’s TV stations together while pitching TV-reluctant businesses on the value and affordability of the local medium. And it’s working. More | Add comment
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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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Bounce TV Slots Second Original Series
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May 10, 2012, 11:07 AM EDT
Uptown Comic to debut Monday, June 18, immediately after the series premiere of the network's original sitcom Family Time. Full Story
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WJLA Washington Adds Live Well Network
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May 1, 2012, 6:00 AM EDT
The addition of the diginet owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations Group brings its national coverage to 60% of U.S. households. Full Story
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WPLG Miami Adding Me-TV Diginet
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Apr 20, 2012, 11:25 AM EDT
The Post-Newsweek ABC affiliate will begin airing the classic TV programming service on April 24 on its OTA ch. 10.2. Full Story
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Bounce TV Adds KDFI Dallas
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Mar 30, 2012, 9:44 AM EDT
The African-American targeted multicast network can now be seen on the Fox-owned MNT affiliate’s ch. 27.2. Full Story
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Me-TV Lands Affiliations In Three More Markets
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Mar 30, 2012, 8:22 AM EDT
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WAXC-LP Alexander City, Ala., Adds RTV
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Mar 13, 2012, 11:44 AM EDT
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KARE Adds WeatherNation To Subchannel
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Jan 23, 2012, 11:38 AM EST
The Gannett NBC affiliate in Minneapolis will air the 24/7 weather diginet on its ch. 11.2. Full Story
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Diginets Hope To Boost Affil Counts In Miami
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Jan 11, 2012, 8:17 AM EST
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Live Well Adds Five Citadel Stations
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Jan 9, 2012, 3:10 PM EST
These affiliates in Providence, Des Moines, Davenport, Lincoln and Sioux City bring the ABC diginet’s U.S. clearance to about 55%. Full Story
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WKSY-LP Summerville, Ga., Becomes RTV Affiliate
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Dec 27, 2011, 6:39 PM EST
Antenna TV Boosts Clearances To 57%
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Dec 15, 2011, 2:49 PM EST
The classic TV diginet is adding affiliates in Atlanta; Las Vegas; Buffalo, N.Y.; Lexington, Ky.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Idaho Falls in January. Full Story
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TheCoolTV Might Revive Music Videos
Kansas City Star,
Nov 29, 2011, 7:16 AM EST
The diginet is unusual in that its content is tailored to each city where it’s carried. Each affiliate has its own playlist that reflects TheCoolTV’s research into the community’s musical tastes, favorite genres and hometown bands. Link
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Soul Of The South Diginet Set For 2012 Debut
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Oct 31, 2011, 3:41 PM EDT
The 24-hour regional multicast channel targeting southern African Americans plans a first quarter launch. Plans include five hours of news a day. Full Story
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Bounce TV Adds Chicago, Milwaukee
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Aug 8, 2011, 11:36 AM EDT
The new broadcast network targeted to African Americans adds Weigel Broadcasting’s WWME Chicago and WBME Milwaukee as it approaches its Sept. 26 launch. Full Story
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Diginets Struggle For Place On TV's Frontier
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Jul 27, 2011, 6:08 AM EDT
It’s a little like the Wild West as proliferating multicast channels scramble for carriage on coveted TV station subchannels. And those that win carriage still have to prove they can attract viewers and advertisers. TVNewsCheck’s roundup of these pioneering programming providers turned up 23. In our exclusive listing, we sum up what kind of programming they offer, what their basic proposition to potential affiliates is and how far along they are in distribution. 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.
