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Telemundo Confident In Comcast's Support
MediaPost, Jan 26, 2012, 6:07 AM EST
Telemundo chief Emilio Romano spent part of a NATPE appearance touting Comcast's commitment to the Spanish-language broadcaster. Comcast has invested heavily to grab rights to the World Cup away from Univision after 2014. Link | Add comment
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NATPE Wraps Up: Change Is Everywhere
Hollywood Reporter, Jan 26, 2012, 5:53 AM EST
Big Hollywood companies and glitz were back, but now they stand alongside the growing digital contingent and lots of international buyers and sellers. Link | Add comment
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Sook: Stations Could Get $2 Per Sub Retrans
TVNewsCheck, Jan 25, 2012, 4:02 PM EST
A NATPE panel offered predictions on the future of retransmission consent at stations. Deb McDermott of Young Broadcasting said that she was not opposed to sharing the retrans revenue with the networks "as long as it is the right division of revenue — as long as they don't get greedy." And Nexstar’s Perry Sook suggested that even sending half of the revenue to the networks is not unreasonable. Full Story | Comments (3)
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TV And Digital Make Advertising’s Top Team
TVNewsCheck, Jan 25, 2012, 7:25 AM EST
“Maximize Your Media Mix” panelists say TV and digital media are complementary outlets in a media mix designed to achieve specific reach and frequency goals for advertisers. Full Story | Add comment
Tribune To Cook With Rocco DiSpirito
Tribune To Cook With Rocco DiSpirito
TVNewsCheck, Jan 24, 2012, 3:38 PM EST
The celebrity chef’s new cooking and nutrition show leads a slate of educational/informational series from Bellum Entertainment cleared on all 17 Tribune Broadcasting stations. Full Story | Add comment
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Fox Stations, WB Slot ‘Bethenny’ Test Run
TVNewsCheck, Jan 24, 2012, 3:27 PM EST
Reality TV star, entrepreneur and author Bethenny Frankel to host a daily talk show on Fox-owned stations that will get a six-week preview this summer. Full Story | Add comment
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On TV, It's Still Survival Of The Hit-est
Miami Herald, Jan 24, 2012, 7:08 AM EST
We may live in a brave new video world where it's tough to tell where TV leaves off and the Internet, your cell phone and your game-system box begin, but it's still governed — more sternly than ever — by television's oldest rule: You've got to have hit shows. Link | Add comment
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Multicasters: Stations Leave Millions Behind
TVNewsCheck, 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 | Comments (10)
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Retrans Top Of Mind For NBCU’s Harbert
TVNewsCheck, Jan 23, 2012, 5:34 PM EST
NBC strategy is unlike other retrans deals, in which TV stations are paid a fee by cable operators, satellite operators and telcos. Harbert wants NBC to negotiate those deals for all its affiliates and stations, essentially negotiating by proxy for all of them. He wants NBC to keep a set percentage of that money. “We believe that, with scale, we can maximize revenue,” he says. “I’m not sure I have the answer how to do that, yet. But I’m working on it.” Full Story | Comments (1)
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Katie Couric: Talk Show Is Job No. 1
TVNewsCheck, Jan 23, 2012, 5:08 PM EST
At NATPE, she and Jeff Zucker emphasize their desire to do everything that’s needed to promote their new syndicated talk show, including working with stations across the country. Full Story | Comments (1)
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Local Online News to Get TMZ Slant in L.A.
TVNewsCheck, Jan 23, 2012, 4:04 PM EST
Ping L.A. will take a 180-degree turn away from the conventions of most local newscasts in everything from the set to the way stories are delivered, all with a view to capturing the elusive 18-24-year-old demographic. Full Story | Add comment
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Me-TV and Broadcast Partners Set Deal
TVNewsCheck, Jan 23, 2012, 2:39 PM EST
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PRO Acquires ‘Conan’ and ‘Acapulco H.E.A.T.’
TVNewCheck, Jan 23, 2012, 12:07 PM EST
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To Steve Harvey, Syndication’s No Joke
TVNewsCheck, Jan 21, 2012, 9:47 PM EST
The serious multi-tasker expects to work in tapings of his new NBCUniversal syndicated talk show around his other gigs as syndicated morning-drive radio personality and host of Debmar-Mercury's Family Feud. Something has to give, however, and it will be his standup comedy. But he says he’s not giving up humor: “I want to do a daytime show that is inspirational, uplifting and insightful. Then, the twist I’m going to put on it is that, in the middle of the day, it’s going to be funny.” Full Story | Add comment
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NATPE 2012: It's Still All About Oprah
TVNewsCheck, Jan 20, 2012, 3:00 PM EST
Oprah is long gone — she taped her last show for broadcast syndication eight months ago — but her presence (or absence) is still being felt throughout broadcasting and will pervade the NATPE conference next week in Miami Beach. She'll continue to be the measure by which every other talk show evaluates itself and the subject of countless conversations about her impact on broadcasting. Full Story | Comments (4)
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Ricki Lake V2.0: Evolved And Upgraded
TVNewsCheck, Jan 17, 2012, 8:23 AM EST
The 43-year-old says her goal for her new Twentieth talk show that launches this fall is “conversation that everyone is a part of. It will be elevated content that women 25-54 can relate to. At my age, the TV I watch has to have some substance. That’s what we’re hoping to achieve. It will offer a lot of takeaway.” Full Story | Comments (1)
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Diginets Hope To Boost Affil Counts In Miami
TVNewsCheck, Jan 11, 2012, 8:17 AM EST
Multicast programmers will be at this month's NATPE exhibition hoping to expand and improve their affiliate lineups. And their growing importance to the industry is reflected in the show's scheduling of a panel dedicated to the business on Monday afternoon (Jan. 23) featuring representatives of Me-TV, Antenna TV and Live Well. Full Story | Comments (6)
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NATPE Announces 2012 Digital Luminaries
NetNewsCheck, Jan 10, 2012, 3:30 PM EST
Among this year's Digital Luminary Award recipients is Web giant Yahoo, recognized by the trade organization for leadership in the digital category. Link | Add comment
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Jeff Probst's Goal: Be A Syndication Survivor
TVNewsCheck, Jan 9, 2012, 7:39 AM EST
As host of one of a batch of syndicated talk shows getting set to debut this fall, the longtime Survivor host says there’s room for all of them. “The reason is that a talk show lives or dies with its host. Everyone brings their own strengths. I don’t see it as a threat.” And he says his experiences on Survivor will serve him well: “Dealing with people from all walks of life, who are in extreme conflicts, for almost 13 years ... will play into the talk show. That’s where I’ve had the opportunity to hone the craft of interviewing.” Full Story | Comments (3)
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NATPE Expects 5,000-Plus For Miami Confab
TVNewsCheck, Dec 13, 2011, 2:12 PM EST
Organization CEO Rick Feldman says the annual gathering, set for January, “will be the best representation of domestic broadcasters in a long, long time.” He said four or five stations groups are each sending more than 10 people. Full Story | Add comment
NATPE Sets Turner’s Phil Kent As Keynote Speaker
TVNewsCheck, Nov 15, 2011, 2:41 PM EST
NATPE Charts Changes For 2012 Conference
TVNewsCheck, Jun 21, 2011, 2:47 PM EDT
The group's CEO, Rick Feldman, outlined changes in store for next year's gathering in Miami Beach to solve problems including overcrowded elevators and adding more exhibit space and meeting rooms. Full Story | Add comment

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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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