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Larry Kramer Named USA Today Publisher
RTTNews, May 15, 2012, 6:25 AM EDT
Gannett CFO Paul Saleh Resigns
RTTNews, May 14, 2012, 3:10 PM EDT
He's joining Computer Sciences Corp. as VP-CFO. Gannett VP-Treasurer Michael Hart will serve as interim principal financial officer while it searches for a permanent CFO. Full Story | Add comment
Tech Spotlight
Good Call: iPhones Are Stations' Hottest Tool
TVNewsCheck, Mar 22, 2012, 10:46 AM EDT
Many news organizations are finding that their journalists — both print and broadcast — are much more productive when equipped with the very versatile phone powered by an ever-growing number of apps. “Now everybody’s a newsgatherer,” says KPNX Phoenix News Director Mark Casey. “Our photojournalists use traditional pro video cameras, the point-and-shoot or the iPhone — and sometimes all three.” Full Story | Comments (1)
Gannett Buys Sports Websites
Wall Street Journal, Jan 25, 2012, 6:22 AM EST
Gannett Co. acquired Fantasy Sports Ventures, a network of independent sports websites led by TheBigLead.com, underscoring big media companies' focus on online sports news. The deal, terms of which weren't disclosed, could make Gannett's USA Today Sports Media Group one of the five biggest properties online in a category dominated by Yahoo Sports and ESPN.com. Link | Add comment
Digital DMAs
Gannett's AZCentral Rules In Digital Phoenix
NetNewsCheck, Dec 8, 2011, 7:10 AM EST
With a towering 3 million-plus uniques in October, Gannett's carefully nurtured online operation, which combines the efforts of its NBC affiliate KPNX and its Arizona Republic, swamps its nearest competitors, MyFoxPhoenix.com and Scripps' ABC15.com. Along with winning in audience, AZCentral now generates 20% of Gannett's total revenues in the sprawling Phoenix DMA. 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)
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Bounce TV Adds WUSA Washington
TVNewsCheck, Nov 1, 2011, 1:32 PM EDT
This latest deal with Gannett puts the new over-the-air multicast network targeted to African Americans at more than 50% coverage of the U.S. Full Story | Add comment
Ex-FCC Commish Ness Joins Gannett Board
TVNewsCheck, Oct 25, 2011, 11:23 AM EDT
Susan Ness, who served on the FCC during the Clinton administration, has been elected to to the Gannett board. "Susan has been a strong voice for consumers and understands the enormous value technology brings to people's lives," said Gannett Chairman Majorie Magner. Full Story | Add comment
Quarterly report
Gannett 3Q TV Revenue Down 6.1%
TVNewsCheck, Oct 17, 2011, 9:12 AM EDT
But factoring out the lower political revenue, that changes to a 4.7% gain, driven by improving auto advertising. Retrans revenue was up 26.7% and online grew 27.5%. Full Story | Add comment
Gannett Shutters MomsLikeMe Sites
Business First, Oct 10, 2011, 11:58 AM EDT
Gannett-owned MomsLikeMe announced that it will be shutting its sites Friday, Oct. 14. A notice posted on MomsLikeMe.com, which operates in 90 cities, said Gannett made a business decision to invest in other online digital initiatives. Link | Add comment
Craig Dubow Resigns From Gannett
TVNewsCheck, Oct 6, 2011, 5:26 PM EDT
Health problems force him to step down. He’s being replaced by Marjorie Magner, who’s named chairman, and  Gracia Martore, who becomes CEO. Full Story | Comments (1)
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)
Gannett Shutters Hyper-Local NJ Sites
MediaPost, Jul 5, 2011, 6:09 AM EDT
After much talk about the future of news relying more on user-generated contributions, Gannett's early experiments in crowd-sourced local news content has fizzled. It shuttered the company's 17 hyperlocal news sites in New Jersey, which operated under the umbrella InJersey.com site. Link | Add comment
Gannett Laying Off 700 Newspaper Employees
Adweek, Jun 22, 2011, 6:16 AM EDT
In an internal memo distributed Tuesday, Gannett's U.S. newspapers division president Bob Dickey announced that 700 employees — or approximately 2% of the company's overall workforce — would be laid off. Link | Comments (1)
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Gannett Tests Hyperlocal Model In Tampa
NetNewsCheck, May 12, 2011, 8:56 AM EDT
In a market with fierce competition from a myriad of newspaper and television sites vying to be No. 1, Gannett chooses the sunny Tampa-St. Petersburg market as the online proving ground for its bold experiment in hyperlocal news sites. Link | Add comment
Earnings Report (Updated)
Gannett Total TV Rev Down 2% In 1Q
TVNewsCheck, Apr 18, 2011, 9:03 AM EDT
But after factoring out political spending and ad losses due to absences of Olympics and Super Bowl this year, Gannett said, revenue was up 7.5% over the first quarter of 2010. Based on current trends, Gannett expects total TV revenues for the second quarter to be flat and core to be up in mid-single digits. Full Story | Add comment
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Larry Audas Named GM Of WFMY
TVNewsCheck, Apr 1, 2011, 2:40 PM EDT
Gannett moves him from leading its KTHV Little Rock, Ark., to the top slot at its CBS affiliate in Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, N.C. Full Story | Comments (1)
Earnings call
Gannett Cautiously Optimistic About 2011
TVNewsCheck, Jan 31, 2011, 11:58 AM EST
In today’s earnings call, execs highlight the strong contributions from broadcasting in the fourth quarter and see positive signs in retrans and low singlt-digit gains in ad revenue in this year’s first quarter. Full Story | Add comment
Quarterly report
Gannett 4Q TV Revenue Climbs 26%
TVNewsCheck, Jan 31, 2011, 8:38 AM EST
“Significantly higher” political money, solid core ad demand and 16% higher retrains revenue boost the fourth quarter figures. Full Story | Add comment
NATPE 2011
Demand For Solid Syndie Fare Still Strong
TVNewsCheck, Jan 25, 2011, 6:13 PM EST
Station group executives say that with growing multiplatform opportunities for stations, the need for compelling, creative syndicated programming is growing in importance. Said Post-Newsweek Stations' Alan Frank: “No one does it like television. No one sells emotion like we do.” Full Story | Add comment
Paul Saleh named Gannett's Chief Financial Officer
TVNewsCheck, Nov 15, 2010, 9:36 AM EST
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KDNL To Get News From KSDK
BND.com, Nov 15, 2010, 6:30 AM EST
Beginning Jan. 3, Gannett's St. Louis NBC affiliate, KSDK, will produce nightly half-hour newscasts at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. for ABC affil KDNL, which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. KDNL aired its last local newscast in October 2001. Additional content to be produced by KSDK also will air on weekends on KDNL.
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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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