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  • Audience Measurement: The state of ratings is examined in three parts: an interview with the head of the Media Ratings Council; the growing presence of Rentrak; and the search for a better local ratings currency.
  • Traffic Reporting: This four-part TVNewsCheck Special Report focuses on what it takes to stay on top of the growing commuter gridlock across the country.
  • Remembering 9/11: TVNewsCheck looks back 10 years after the attacks with a series of five articles.
  • 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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Panasonic Ships Low-Cost AG-AF100 Camera
TVNewsCheck, Dec 28, 2010, 7:39 AM EST
Tech Spotlight: ENG
A Field Guide To TV News Editing
TVNewsCheck, Sep 2, 2010, 11:35 AM EDT
In the modern TV operation, manufacturers of end-to-end systems are now focusing on a process that involves all aspects of the story. The portable tools of the multimedia reporter working in the field are integral to that process. All the story elements — including video, audio, text, graphics, Web links and metadata — are brought together in the field and sent back to the station via an expanding range of options, including microwave, satellite, aircards, Wi-Fi and even 3G smartphones. Full Story | Add comment
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ENG Van Makers Shift Into New Gears
TVNewsCheck, Jul 29, 2010, 10:18 AM EDT
While the market for microwave and satellite trucks that allow stations to send stories from the field to the studio has decreased, the manufacturers continue to innovate to answer the market's changing needs. That means offering smaller, less expensive and more fuel efficient unts that can be outfitted with a range of technology, including IP connectivity and switchable directional or omnidirectional antennas.. Full Story | Comments (1)
ENG 2010
New Cameras Make Multimedia Easy
TVNewsCheck, Jul 22, 2010, 10:19 AM EDT
With all video moving toward the Web, there is demand for new hybrid video camera designs. Canon, Sony and RED Camera are all introducing units that offer the ability to simultaneously record both full-motion video and high-resolution still images. This flexibility, it's hoped, will appeal to journalists shooting for TV, newspapers, magazines, websites and mobile applications. Full Story | Comments (2)
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Canon Jumps Into Low-Cost ENG Market
TVNewsCheck, Jul 15, 2010, 10:02 AM EDT
With TV stations more concerned than ever with their bottom lines at the same time their news needs have expanded to include 24/7 Web coverage, the demand for low-cost camcorders is skyrocketing. Canon is the latest equipment maker to take on incumbents Sony, Panasonic and JVC with two new ENG camcorders. The XF305 and XF300 (right) are now available for less than $8,000. Full Story | Comments (4)
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IP Tech On The Road To Passing Trucks
TVNewsCheck, Jul 8, 2010, 11:08 AM EDT
Video over IP technology is much cheaper and faster than microwave or satellite trucks in returning video from the field, even if most of it usually takes a hit in image quality and reliability isn't yet what it should be. As compression algorithms and the equipment keep getting better, it looks to transform TV newsgathering over the next four or five years. The photo shows Jeff Liebman, of WDIV Detroit, in his IP-enabled vehicle, which includes a Sony camera linked to a Dell laptop with Streambox encoding and Aircard for broadband connections. Full Story | Comments (1)
ENG 2010
Next-Gen Is Hearst's Next Step In News
TVNewsCheck, Jul 1, 2010, 11:45 AM EDT
"The whole focus of the Next-Generation Newsroom is to change the mindset of our news staff, to get them away from the thinking that we only publish to broadcast at 5, 6 and 11," says Hearst's Joe Addalia."We are always on the Web. We don't sit on our news." Full Story | Comments (2)

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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 5:56p ET Quotes delayed at least 20 mins.
Source: Financial Content

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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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