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  • Gearing Up For NAB 2012: The top tech trends and issues.
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  • 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.
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  • 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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Live from NAB
CBS, ABC Step Up Mobile DTV Commitment
TVNewsCheck, Apr 16, 2012, 5:35 PM EDT
CBS commits to simulcasting the Dyle mobile DTV service at four of its O&Os and has given permission to five affiliates  to get on board.  ABC has given the go-ahead to its affiliates in Dallas and Orlando. In addition, NBC has given its affiliate in Austin, Texas, permission to air its signal on the condition that it uses Dyle’s conditional access. For all that’s going on at NAB 2012, click here. Full Story | Comments (2)
CES 2012
Mobile DTV Demonstrates Progress At CES
TVNewsCheck, Jan 12, 2012, 11:54 AM EST
Broadcaster-owned MCV and Mobile500 showed devices and apps that they say consumers may use to receive their broadcast-based mobile services later this year. But neither had a launch date or particulars about programming. Meanwhile, Syncbak demonstrated its authentication technology designed to give copyright holders comfort that the programming TV stations put on broadband networks will stay in their local markets. Full Story | Comments (9)
CES 2012
Belkin Debuts Its Dyle Mobile DTV Dongle
TVNewsCheck, Jan 9, 2012, 5:47 AM EST
The unit, which attaches to the bottom of the Apple iPads and iPhones, contains a mobile DTV tuner and turns conventional earphones into a receive antenna that can pull in UHF and high-band VHF signals. Full Story | Comments (1)
Mobile DTV Takes A Step Closer To Reality
TVNewsCheck, Jan 4, 2012, 9:01 AM EST
Later this year, MetroPCS will offer a new Samsung smartphone with a mobile DTV tuner chip and telescoping antenna. Subscribers will be able to register for Mobile Content Venture's Dyle service and watch “national and local” programming broadcast by TV stations. More announcements from MCV are forthcoming. Full Story | Comments (3)
2 Univision TVs Join Live Mobile TV Initiative
Hollywood Reporter, Nov 8, 2011, 2:50 PM EST
Los Angeles' KMEX and Miami's WLTV will be among the broadcasters deploying Dyle, the consumer-facing brand presenting live mobile TV. Link | Comments (2)
Jessell At Large
Mobile DTV: Would You Believe Xmas 2012?
TVNewsCheck, Oct 21, 2011, 10:45 AM EDT
It’s looking like it will be at least another year before TV stations will be able to offer over-the-air programming to smartphones, tablets and netbooks. Much progress has been made, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. But broadcasters don't have all the time in the world. They are in a competition with broadband. If broadcasters drag this out too long, the broadband carriers will come up with their own "broadcast" solution and broadcasters won't get their chance. Full Story | Comments (7)
Mobile DTV Tally: 126 Stations By Year's End
TVNewsCheck, Aug 4, 2011, 11:40 AM EDT
The Open Mobile Video Coalition finds that while stations in 48 markets will be ready to go, tablets, smart phones and other personal devices capable of receiving the signals will be not be available until well into 2012. OMVC is working on the necessary guidelines so that samples can be built and shown to retailers at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Full Story | Add comment
MCV Dials Up Its Mobile TV Brand: Dyle
TVNewsCheck, Jul 18, 2011, 12:41 PM EDT
The group hopes the new name and logo will help consumers identify mobile TV enabled devices. MCV will use the Dyle brand to certify that a device is capable of receiving and decrypting live mobile broadcast TV signals. The name and logo are part of MCV’s strategy to drive awareness of and educate consumers about mobile TV, MCV said. Full Story | Add comment
TVNewsCheck Focus on Mobile DTV
The More The Merrier Says Mobile500
TVNewsCheck, Jun 1, 2011, 7:04 AM EDT
The group of broadcasters promoting mobile DTV is ramping up its plans for a service that will be compatible with whatever the other major mobile initiative, Mobile Content Venture, develops. Mobile500 planners are proposing a joint venture with broadcasters that will develop and market 15-20 channels, including five or six local free channels, 14 or 15 national pay channels and a “hybrid” VOD service using the wireless broadband network, but fully integrated with the broadcast service in a single user interface. Full Story | Add comment
MCV Promises Mobile DTV In 12 More DMAs
TVNewsCheck, Apr 18, 2011, 9:23 AM EDT
Counting the 20 markets from previous announcement, Mobile Content Venture has now promised to introduce the service in 32 markets by the end of this year. New markets on list include Seattle, Miami, Denver, Cleveland, St. Louis, Charlotte, Raleigh, Kansas City, Columbus, Las Vegas, Tulsa and Montgomery. Full Story | Comments (7)
Nab 2011
Content Is Key To Mobile DTV Success
TVNewsCheck, Apr 12, 2011, 6:34 AM EDT
The importance of tailoring mobile DTV business models to meet evolving consumer needs was one of the topics at Monday’s panel on the new medium and potential revenue stream for broadcasters. Others include lessons from more mature mobile markets overseas and updates from representatives of the Mobile Content Venture and the Mobile 500 Alliance. Full Story | Add comment
Focus On Mobile DTV
Free Is The Key To Mobile DTV Success
TVNewsCheck, Mar 9, 2011, 6:58 AM EST
As U.S. broadcasters prepare to launch mobile DTV services, they’ve learned important lessons from earlier, similar efforts overseas. First, it’s become clear that to succeed, a mobile service must include free content that consumers know and like at the time they expect it to be on. Then, it must also offer premium content, games and more. Full Story | Comments (1)
Letter to the Editor from John Lawson
Mobile DTV Groups Have Much In Common
TVNewsCheck, Jan 24, 2011, 10:36 AM EST
The Mobile500 Alliance executive director says that TVNewsCheck’s Jan. 20 story on the Mobile500 Alliance’s “statement of principles” may have" created for some the impression of a level of discord between the Mobile500 Alliance and the Mobile Content Venture that doesn’t exist." Full Story | Comments (1)
Mobile DTV 'Manifesto’ Urges Openness
TVNewsCheck, Jan 21, 2011, 5:43 AM EST
The Mobile 500, concerned that other mobile DTV proponents may be working toward a closed platform, details in 12 points that it’s in the best interests of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers and the public to avoid “any sort of proprietary technical barriers and rate structures that would make it prohibitive for some broadcasters to use the system,” according to Mobile500 Executive Director John Lawson. Full Story | Comments (1)
ces 2011—updated
MVC Outsources Mobile DTV Encryption
TVNewsCheck, Jan 5, 2011, 9:09 AM EST
Digital security technology specialist Nagra-Kudelski will handle "conditional access" as the Mobile Content Venture outlines that and other technical details of its upcoming mobile DTV service. Full Story | Comments (3)
CES 2011
CES To Be Mobile DTV's Coming Out Party
TVNewsCheck, Jan 4, 2011, 6:52 AM EST
The Open Mobile Video Coalition, led by Anne Schelle (left),  will highlight mobile DTV tech during the annual convention in Las Vegas this week, explaining the technology and displaying the growing number of devices equipped to receive mobile DTV. It will release more encouraging results from its recent consumer trial, and it will open up its ranks to non-broadcasters — device manufacturers, app developers, content providers and others hoping to exploit the new platform. Backing it up will be representatives of two consortia of broadcasters — the Mobile Content Venture and the Mobile500 Alliance — committed to bringing the mobile DTV services to market this year. Full Story | Add comment
Mobile TV Ready To Hit The Small Screen
Chicago Tribune, Dec 21, 2010, 6:45 AM EST
The broadcast industry has been developing mobile digital TV for several years, and a small number of stations are on the air, but the platform's availability remains limited. In 2011, the technology is expected to gain momentum as the Mobile Content Venture, a group of 12 major broadcasters, will be upgrading stations to start delivering mobile DTV in 20 markets covering more than 40% of the U.S. population. Link | Add comment
Jessell at Large
TV Poised For New Golden Age With Mobile
TVNewsCheck, Nov 19, 2010, 2:12 PM EST
The announcement by the Mobile Content Venture that at least 40 NBC and Fox O&Os and affiliates will start broadcasting ad-supported mobile DTV service next year is the first step in moving broadcast TV into what promises to be a revolutionary and profitable future. Now what's needed is for the networks to work out the  copyright issues so that all stations can take all their network programing mobile. And perhaps now, the FCC will start to realize that there are more better ways to serve consumers and more efficient uses for TV spectrum than just handing it all over to broadband. Full Story | Comments (16)
TVNewscheck Exclusive
NBC, Fox TVs Vow Mobile Launch In 20 DMAs
TVNewsCheck, Nov 19, 2010, 8:30 AM EST
Led by the Mobile Content Venture, the O&Os and affiliates of the two networks will air at least two ad-supported mobile DTV channels in at least 20 markets by the end of 2011. The effort is aimed at encouraging the manufacture of mobile receivers and sparking consumer demand. MCV would not discuss what the programming will be, but industry sources said it will likely be simulcasts of the stations' conventional broadcasts. “The good news…is that we are finally getting going,” says MCV's Eric Moreno.   Full Story | Comments (6)

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Reviews
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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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