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NBC Station Sites Feature Investigative News
TVNewsCheck, May 1, 2012, 1:16 PM EDT
Seven stations expand their websites to highlight local investigative reporting. Full Story | Add comment
NBC Stations, Sports Nets In Sales Deal
TVNewsCheck, Apr 17, 2012, 12:06 PM EDT
Under a new agreement announced today, the NBC Owned Television Stations group will sell national advertising for four Comcast SportsNets. Full Story | Add comment
NBC Stations Names National Sales Exec
TVNewsCheck, Mar 26, 2012, 12:03 PM EDT
Cathy Jones is tapped to be SVP of national sales for the NBC-owned stations in Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas. Full Story | Comments (4)
NBC Stations Add ‘Black Enterprise Business'
TVNewsCheck, Feb 9, 2012, 1:16 PM EST
The business news weekly aimed at African Americans will be carried on subchannels in New York, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Francisco, Miami and San Diego beginning Feb. 12. Full Story | Comments (4)
Jessell at Large
A Year Later: Comcast Walked Its NBC Talk
TVNewsCheck, Jan 27, 2012, 3:33 PM EST
When Comcast first announced its plans a year ago to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, the experts felt it was the cable networks, not NBC and its television stations, that Comcast really wanted. There was across-the-board gnashing of teeth about what would happen to NBC. But Comcast executives assured regulators and tried to persuade the experts that that wasn't the case. They really believed in broadcasting, they said. They looked forward to reinvigorating the business and restoring the Peacock's colors. And over the past 12 months, Comcast has shown that it meant everything it said. Full Story | Comments (7)
NBC Stations Name New Ombudsman
TVNewsCheck, Jan 20, 2012, 11:53 AM EST
NBC News taps Kevin Keeshan, the former news director of KGO San Francisco, for the post. Full Story | Add comment
NBC Owned Stations Gas Up With Verifone
TVNewsCheck, Dec 19, 2011, 11:02 AM EST
NBCUniversal will deliver news, information and entertainment to 12,000 taxis and thousands of gas stations nationwide in markets including New York, Chicago, Boston, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Washington and Miami. Full Story | Add comment
NBC Stations Adds Nonprofit News Partners
TVNewsCheck, Dec 6, 2011, 8:32 AM EST
NBC Owned Television Stations today announced it has entered into agreements to create cooperative newsgathering and reporting arrangements with a series of locally-focused, nonprofit news organizations. Full Story | Add comment
Jessell at large
Two Tough Jobs For Two Proven Execs
TVNewsCheck, Nov 18, 2011, 3:33 PM EST
Rebecca Campbell (l), CEO of the ABC Owned Television Stations, and Valari Staab, CEO of NBC Owned Television Stations, face very different tasks. Staab has before her a full-blown reclamation project while Campbell is charged with maintaining her group's reputation as local TV broadcasting’s premier franchise. But the two women also share attributes: Both are engaging personalities and boast proven aptitude at running major market TV stations. It will be interesting to see how they approach their respective challenges. Full Story | Comments (6)
Tech Spotlight
Outsourced Master Control Drives NBC O&Os
TVNewsCheck, Nov 17, 2011, 12:05 PM EST
After going it alone for eight years, NBC Owned Television Stations outsourced its master control centralcasting to Encompass Digital Media. From a single hub in Atlanta, Encompass handles basic master control chores for the 10 NBC O&Os — their main channels as well as their subchannels as well as six of NBCUniversal’s Telemundo stations. The classic hub-and-spoke centralcasting model runs on the Snell Group’s Morpheus software-based automation and media management system. Full Story | Add comment
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CTD Clears 'Jeff Probst' Talker In 55% Of U.S.
TVNewsCheck, Nov 9, 2011, 10:30 PM EST
Eight of the 10 NBC Owned Television Stations will carry the new daytime talk show in fall 2012, including WNBC New York, KNBC Los Angeles and WCAU Philadelphia. Also clearing the talker are stations in 16 of the top 20 markets. Full Story | Comments (1)
NBC Reinvents Nonstop As National Diginet
TVNewsCheck, Nov 3, 2011, 12:33 PM EDT
Rather than a series of individual regional and local multicast channels, NBC Owned Television Stations is now going with a single national network with a mix of national and local programming. Veteran local news executive Meredith McGinn is charged with developing programming and seeking affiliates in markets beyond the 10 of the NBC O&Os. Full Story | Comments (9)
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Local News Is Driver For NBC O&O Revival
TVNewsCheck, Oct 31, 2011, 7:05 AM EDT
Valari Staab, a longtime ABC local broadcaster who was hired away to lead the NBC Owned Television Stations, is reinventing the group through a four-pronged strategy of bigger budgets and staff for better, stronger newscasts; better promoting those newscasts and stories; increased local autonomy; and otherwise recharging the non-network daytime schedule. Full Story | Comments (2)
BIM Adds Telemundo Stations, Renews NBC O&Os
TVNewsCheck, Oct 25, 2011, 9:18 AM EDT
Christine Dorfler Named CFO Of NBC O&Os
TVNewsCheck, Oct 17, 2011, 11:11 AM EDT
The former finance VP of WNBC New York is promoted to oversee finances for the company's 10 owned stations. Full Story | Add comment
NBC O&Os Add ‘Steve Harvey’ For 2012
TVNewsCheck, Oct 13, 2011, 12:23 PM EDT
The 10 stations will carry the new show from Endemol USA that will debut in syndication next fall. The one-hour show will be based largely on Harvey’s relationship advice books. Full Story | Add comment
NBC Stations Offer Young Journalist Training
TVNewsCheck, Sep 19, 2011, 2:35 PM EDT
Two new programs will give recent college graduates or newspaper journalists wishing to move into TV the opportunity to receive training at the 10 NBC Owned Television Stations with a possibility of employment at their completion. Full Story | Comments (1)
Gamba New Marketing SVP At NBC Stations
TVNewsCheck, Aug 23, 2011, 12:47 PM EDT
Veteran TV marketing exec Therese Gamba will help the stations created unique brand strategies and coordinate NBCUniversal promotional campaigns and marketing. Full Story | Add comment
Jessell at large
What’s In A Name? A Lot, Apparently, To NBC
TVNewsCheck, Jul 1, 2011, 5:48 AM EDT
One of the first moves made by the new head of NBC’s television stations, Valari Staab, was to rename her group from NBC Local Media to NBC Owned Television Stations. While I applauded the introduction of Local Media four years ago, the time is now right for the new moniker. Staab has smartly focused the attention of every one of her employees on strengthening the 10 stations. And the name change also tells the world that the new controlling owner of NBCUniversal, Comcast, believes in the vitality and growth potential of broadcasting. Full Story | Comments (8)
NBC Owned Stations, NECN In Ad Deal
Jun 22, 2011, 11:31 AM EDT
The group that oversees 10 TV stations will begin selling national advertising for New England Cable News beginning at the end of this month. Full Story | Comments (1)
It's Now 'NBC Owned Television Stations'
TVNewsCheck, Jun 17, 2011, 7:15 AM EDT
In an apparent effort to emphasize the unique value of the company's TV stations, Valari Staab, newly appointed NBC station group president, is rebranding her NBC Local Media division as NBC Owned Television Stations. Full Story | Comments (24)

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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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