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dma 138 (Columbia-Jefferson City, MO)
KOMU Ending Interactive Newscast
Newscast Studio, Apr 11, 2012, 7:45 AM EDT
The NBC affiliate in Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo., is canceling its much ballyhooed interactive newscast, U_News, sources say. The show's last day is Friday, April 20, after which it will "transition" to a new noon newscast, Link | Add comment
Dma 138 (Columbia-Jefferson City, MO)
KOMU Adds Emily Spain As Morning Anchor
TVNewsCheck, Apr 5, 2012, 7:27 PM EDT
dma 138 (Columbia-Jefferson City, MO)
KOMU Moving Its Interactive Newscast
Newscast Studio, Dec 23, 2011, 7:24 AM EST
KOMU, the NBC affiliate in Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo., that launched U_News in September, is moving the interactive newscast to 11 a.m., according to posts the station made on various social media channels. The newscast, which is the station's replacement for Oprah, is billed an interactive, social media driven broadcast. Link | Add comment
Air Check by Diana Marszalek
How Social Should A Newscast Be?
TVNewsCheck, Sep 20, 2011, 8:02 AM EDT
KOMU Columbia, Mo., in DMA138, has taken the plunge into social media news, last week launching a 4 p.m. newscast that makes viewers an integral part of the show. And there’s a social media desk that includes two reporters tracking bloggers, Tweets and online conversations about topics making the news. Industry watchers applaud KOMU for pushing the envelope in its use of social media at a time when many stations are still trying to figure them out. But some question their heavy use in what has always been a sit-back, passive medium. Full Story | Comments (2)
dma 137
KOMU's Google+ Account Killed
NewscastStudio, Jul 20, 2011, 2:58 PM EDT
Google has apparently disabled the Google+ account belonging to NBC affiliate KOMU Columbia, Mo., says one of the station’s most prolific Google+ users, anchor Sarah Hill, in a public post in her personal account. Link | Add comment
dma 137
KOMU Puts Google+ Video Chat On The Air
PBS MediaShift, Jul 7, 2011, 7:12 PM EDT
Columbia, Mo., NBC affiliate KOMU uses Google+'s Google Hangout video chat feature to interact with television viewers during its live newscast. Link | Add comment
Digital DMAs
Little Columbia Is Big On Experimentation
NetNewsCheck, Jun 2, 2011, 7:51 AM EDT
In the small Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo., market, newspaper and television sites are taking their cue from the University of Missouri's respected journalism school and trying out new ways to present and monetize online media. Link | Add comment
dma 137
KOMU Uses Facebook As Tornado Info Hub
MediaShift, May 25, 2011, 8:32 AM EDT
Even though the NBC affiliate is nearly 250 miles away from Joplin in Columbia, Mo., many people in Columbia and mid-Missouri are either Joplin natives or have family there. The newsroom's normally local-focused Facebook page quickly became a clearinghouse for updates about how mid-Missouri could help the tornado-ravaged community. Link | Add comment
Dma 137
KOMU To Debut New Interactive Newscast
TVNewsCheck, May 2, 2011, 3:28 PM EDT
U_News@4#Sarah Hill will replace Oprah at 4-5 p.m. on the Columbia, Mo., NBC affiliate beginning Sept. 12. Full Story | Comments (1)

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    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

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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.

  • 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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