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  • NAB 2012: Everything you need to know about broadcasting's biggest tech event of the year.
  • Gearing Up For NAB 2012: The top tech trends and issues.
  • FCC Watch: 18 Topics In 244 Words Or Less: Get briefed on what's happening at broadcasting's favorite regulatory agency by top Washington communications attorneys David Oxenford and Brendan Holland.
  • 2011—Year In Review: Revisit the year’s top developments in business, programming, journalism, technology, regulation and more.
  • 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.

Industry Calendar

May 2012
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28
Memorial Day
Holiday
June 2012
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11
NAB Education Foundation
Celebration of Service to America Awards
Washington, DC
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12-14
PromaxBDA
The Conference 2012
Los Angeles, CA
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Su
14-17
Investigative Reporters & Editors
IRE 2012
Boston, MA
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23
NATAS
Daytime Emmy Awards
Los Angeles, CA

AP Breaking News

Gearing Up For NAB
New JVC Cams Aim To Speed Time To Air
TVNewsCheck, Apr 13, 2012, 7:55 AM EDT
Available this fall, the GY-HM600 and GY-HM650 are just what TV stations need, JVC says. They are small, light and designed to speed delivery of raw video into the editing workflow. The GY-HM650 includes built-in WiFi connectivity that enables rapid transmission of footage relayed via smartphones, tablets or laptop computers. Full Story | Add comment
TVU Networks Teams Up With JVC, Sony
Apr 11, 2012, 2:53 PM EDT
Gearing Up For NAB: Cams for the one-man band
Getting The Shot Cheaper, Easier, Faster
TVNewsCheck, Feb 2, 2012, 12:09 PM EST
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JVC's ProHD GY-HM150
As more and more stations adopt the one-man band approach to newsgathering, the camera manufacturers are turning out new units that are small enough and light enough to be managed easily, and big enough and heavy enough to be balanced for a steady shot. Plus, they’re inexpensive enough that any station's budget can handle them, too. Among the options that will be featured at NAB 2012 are the Sony NX5, the JVC 150 and the Panasonic 250. Full Story | Comments (7)
JVC Unveils ProHD Portable Monitor Series
TVNewsCheck, Jan 30, 2012, 12:05 PM EST
JVC Offers Tools For Using Camcorder In Studio
TVNewsCheck, Jan 18, 2012, 3:56 PM EST
Tech spotlight: DTV
AS-10 Strives To Streamline Video Handling
TVNewsCheck, Dec 1, 2011, 11:30 AM EST
Engineers are betting the new video metadata specification under development within the Advanced Media Workflow Association will result in seamless interoperability of software and devices from a variety of vendors. "Our goal is to have a single file that could move from camera to edit to playout to archive and back, really to be able to traverse the entire work flow," says CNN's Michael Koetter. Part of the vision is a certification program that would allow vendors to put an "AS-10 Inside" seal on their products. Full Story | Add comment
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WHTM Harrisburg Goes To HD News With JVC
TVNewsCheck, Nov 28, 2011, 9:15 PM EST
JVC Intros GY-HM150 ProHD Handheld Camcorder
Sports Video Group, Sep 9, 2011, 6:53 AM EDT
Tech Spotlight
Canon Focuses On Station Camcorder Market
TVNewsCheck, May 5, 2011, 12:02 PM EDT
With an "arsenal" of three camcorders with solid-state media, the company is ready to compete with Sony, Panasonic and JVC for stations upgrading to high-def news. Says Canon's Larry Thorpe: “We have jumped in ... because we certainly have seen over recent years a very definitive move of broadcasters looking for lower-cost equipment for newsgathering ... and we play down there in that lower-cost end.” Full Story | Comments (3)
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KSHB Upgrades ENG With JVC Cameras
TVNewsCheck, Mar 31, 2011, 2:44 PM EDT
NAB 2011
Drewry Doing HD With JVC Cameras
TVNewsCheck, Mar 29, 2011, 3:44 PM EDT
The Oklahoma-based group owner is rolling out local HD newscasts with the help of JVC's GY-HM790U and GY-HM700U camcorders. Full Story | Comments (1)
NAB Outlook: ENG
ENG Innovations Coming Into Focus At NAB
TVNewsCheck, Mar 3, 2011, 11:58 AM EST
New camcorders, drives, software, ASI modules, lenses and laptops promise to advance the state of the art for newsgathering, editing and archiving at next month’s NAB Show. Full Story | Add comment
JVC Intros GY-HM750U ProHD Camcorder
TVNewsCheck, Jan 31, 2011, 11:15 AM EST
The new HD/SD compact shoulder-mount model offers simultaneous recording to two SDHC cards and has an optional ASI module for live ENG microwave broadcasts. Full Story | Add comment
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WMAR Upgrades With JVC ProHD Cameras
TVNewsCheck/Greenwald Media, Dec 7, 2010, 3:50 PM EST
JVC Sets THX Calibration Certification Workshop
Broadcast Engineering, Nov 23, 2010, 6:20 AM EST

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The Market

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 6:04ä ET Quotes delayed at least 20 mins.
Source: Financial Content

Ratings

Overnights, adults 18-49 for 5月 23, 2012
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Source: Nielsen
Reviews
Opinions
Features
  • 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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