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Gearing Up For NAB: News Automation
News Production Automation Hits Mainstream
TVNewsCheck, Mar 15, 2012, 10:40 AM EDT
Ross Video, Grass Valley and Sony will be showing the latest options in news production automation technology at next month’s NAB Show. With a majority of stations in the major markets already on board, vendors are turning their attention to smaller markets by offering new features including customization. Full Story | Add comment
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KEYC Upgrades To HD With NewsFlow Complete
TVNewsCheck, Apr 8, 2011, 8:15 AM EDT
Tech Spotlight: news production
Sony Sets its Sights On News Automation Biz
TVNewsCheck, Oct 28, 2010, 11:39 AM EDT
Two years after stating its intention to join Grass Valley and Ross Video in the market, it's installed its ELC — Enhanced Live-production Control System — at 22 stations, with more on the way. For many of its early customers, ELC has been an upgrade to an installed Sony production switcher, but about a quarter of the sales so far have been to stations that did not have a Sony switcher. Full Story | Comments (1)
Tech Spotlight: news production
Stations Expanding Weather To Web, Mobile
TVNewsCheck, Sep 16, 2010, 10:53 AM EDT
Viewers are not into appointment viewing of weather anymore and TV stations find they need to tap into this in a smart way or risk becoming irrelevant to a new generation. “In three to five years, how people get the content will be immaterial,” says Weather Services International's Jim Menard. “People will know they can get weather data from any number of devices at any time. It will be the brand they care about. They will trust a brand and know it will be there. Broadcasters must build their weather brand for the future.” Full Story | Comments (11)
Tech spotlight: news production
'NewsHour' Embraces New Media Mindset
TVNewsCheck, Sep 9, 2010, 11:36 AM EDT
The long-running PBS newscast made a decision last year to be more aggressive in acquiring news from the field and to provide a full-blown, multimedia news service. To implement the strategy, NewsHour rebuilt and relaunched its website and tore down the walls between its broadcast and online staffers.  "We need to be your one-stop shop for very high quality news journalism on a daily basis," says Simon Marks, associate executive producer. "And  we don’t care how you come to us.” Full Story | Add comment
Tech Spotlight: ENG
A Field Guide To TV News Editing
TVNewsCheck, Sep 2, 2010, 11:35 AM EDT
In the modern TV operation, manufacturers of end-to-end systems are now focusing on a process that involves all aspects of the story. The portable tools of the multimedia reporter working in the field are integral to that process. All the story elements — including video, audio, text, graphics, Web links and metadata — are brought together in the field and sent back to the station via an expanding range of options, including microwave, satellite, aircards, Wi-Fi and even 3G smartphones. Full Story | Add comment
Tech Spotlight: News Production
Stations Spending On News Sets Again
TVNewsCheck, Aug 5, 2010, 11:07 AM EDT
With many projects put on hold due to tight or lower budgets, stations now are starting to upgrade to HD, but they still want value for their money and they want them completed quickly. Among the trends, set manufacturers say, are improvements in LED lighting, integrating multimedia content and more captivating large-screen visuals. Full Story | Comments (7)

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Overnights, adults 18-49 for May 23, 2012
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Source: Nielsen
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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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