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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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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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Me-TV Lands Affiliations In Three More Markets
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Mar 30, 2012, 8:22 AM EDT
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Me-TV Lands affiliation WPLG Miami
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Jan 24, 2012, 3:14 PM EST
With the addition of the Post-Newsweek ABC affiliate, the Weigel Broadcasting Co./MGM Television diginet expands its distribution to over 74% of the U.S.. Full Story
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NATPE 2012
Multicasters: Stations Leave Millions Behind
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Jan 24, 2012, 7:02 AM EST
Even in small markets, broadcasters are generating up to $1 million in annual revenue with a single subchannel, according to panelists at a NATPE session on multicasting. Full Story
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Maura McDonough Cope Named VP, Me-TV
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Jan 22, 2012, 8:43 PM EST
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London Broadcasting Completes Dallas Buy
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Jan 19, 2012, 10:25 AM EST
It changes calls from KTAQ to KTXD and in February becomes a Me-TV affiliate. The deal’s closing means London stations cover nearly 40% of Texas TV homes. Full Story
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NATPE 2012
Diginets Hope To Boost Affil Counts In Miami
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Jan 11, 2012, 8:17 AM EST
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Me-TV Lands Primary Affiliation On WMFP
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Nov 15, 2011, 7:13 PM EST
The classic TV programming service from Weigel and MGM will replace RTV on the Boston independent beginning Dec. 15. Full Story
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WCIV Charleston Adds ME-TV On Ch. 4.2
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Oct 21, 2011, 2:43 PM EDT
Me-TV, ThisTV Add Classic Holiday Shows
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Oct 19, 2011, 3:39 PM EDT
The two diginets have licensed a package of animated Christmas shows from Broadcast Partners that includes The Fat Albert Christmas Special, Cricket on the Hearth, Second Star to the Left, The Legend of Frosty the Snowman and He-Man and She-Ra — A Christmas Special. Full Story
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Me-TV Signs With KOFY San Francisco
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Oct 17, 2011, 12:14 PM EDT
The addition of the Granite independent pushes the classic TV diginet to 62% U.S. coverage. Full Story
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Me-TV Announces New Shows On Fall Schedule
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Sep 20, 2011, 11:03 PM EDT
Me-TV Beefs Up Roster With 10 New Stations
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Sep 15, 2011, 3:38 PM EDT
The multicast network of classic TV shows signs stations from Allbritton, Media General and Raycom, bringing its U.S. clearance total to more than 60%. Full Story
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Me-TV Adds Markets; Ups Clearances To 60%
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Sep 6, 2011, 7:46 PM EDT
New affiliates from Hubbard, Journal, Midwest, Landmark and others boost the U.S. coverage of the classic TV multicast network. Full Story
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Me-TV Standardizes On Thomson System
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May 2, 2011, 5:57 AM EDT
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Newport Adds Me-TV In Frisco, Seattle
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Apr 14, 2011, 7:26 PM EDT
Weigel-MGM’s classic TV network will air on the primary channels of KFTY San Francisco and KVOS Seattle. The additions push Me-TV clearances to over 45%. Full Story
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Me-TV Says Clearances Surpass 45%
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Apr 4, 2011, 12:36 PM EDT
The three-month-old multicast network has been picked up by stations owned by Hearst, Raycom, Cox, Newport, Media General, Capitol Broadcasting, Bahakel, Gray, Quincy, New Age Media, MPS Media, London Broadcasting, Bonten and Titan. Full Story
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WPXI Pittsburgh Swapping RTV for Me-TV
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Apr 4, 2011, 8:02 AM EDT
MGM To Distribute Weigel's Me-TV Diginet
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Jan 4, 2011, 3:05 PM EST
MGM will handle the national rollout of the channel featuring classic TV including Cheers, M*A*S*H, The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Bob Newhart Show. Full Story
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Weigel Poised To Roll Out Multicast Me-TV
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Nov 22, 2010, 3:57 PM EST
The format of classic TV shows that first appeared on Weigel's Chicago and Milwaukee stations will be offered in other markets as a multicast option. 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.
