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TVNewsCheck Focus on Business
More Sellers Than Buyers In Station Market
TVNewsCheck, May 16, 2012, 8:08 AM EDT
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. Full Story | Comments (3)
Young CEO Tony Cassara Resigns
TVNewsCheck, Mar 15, 2012, 4:26 PM EDT
The long-time broadcast exec  tells the Young Broadcasting board that he wants to get into station ownership. Deb McDermott remains as president as the board looks for his successor. Full Story | Comments (2)
Tech One on One
Young: Out With Old, In With New—Gear
TVNewsCheck, Jan 26, 2012, 11:54 AM EST
Craig Porter, Young Broadcasting’s engineering VP, has spent $25 million modernizing the group’s 10 stations. First he took care of news production, moving to all-HD. Now master control is being transformed into a file-based workflow for commercials and programming. Full Story | Add comment
Young Broadcasting Selects Crispin Automation
TVNewsCheck, Jan 5, 2012, 8:32 PM EST
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Young To Sell KRON San Francisco Building
San Francisco Business Times, Oct 28, 2011, 6:17 AM EDT
Young Broadcasting is looking to sell its longtime KRON building at 1001 Van Ness in San Francisco and move to a smaller but more modern digital facility elsewhere in the Bay Area. Link | Add comment
Tech Spotlight
WKRN, WZTV Making Nashville All-HD Town
TVNewsCheck, Jul 28, 2011, 11:31 AM EDT
They are the market’s final stations to convert their news operations to high def. Sinclair’s WZTV will feature an interactive set, while Young’s WKRN has HD capability from the field ready to go. And Nashville’s other news producers — WSMV and WTVF — aren’t resting on their laurels either, adding new sets, graphics, file-based editing systems and news automation to stay cutting edge. Full Story | Add comment
For Sale: Young Broadcasting For Just $350M
TVNewsCheck, Jun 30, 2011, 7:45 AM EDT
A year out of bankruptcy, the 10-station group is financially healthy and the new owners believe it's a good time to sell, what with a record year for political advertising expected in 2012. Observers say the group could fetch eight times blended 2011-12 cash flow or as much as $350 million. Full Story | Comments (1)
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Kenneth M. Freedman Named GM Of KWQC
TVNewsCheck, May 2, 2011, 11:55 AM EDT
Young Broadcasting picks the TV sales veteran to run its NBC affiliate in Davenport, Iowa. Full Story | Comments (2)
It's Official: Tony Cassara To Head Young
TVNewsCheck, Apr 27, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
The longtime television executive and board member succeeds Vincent Young. Cassara’s appointment completes a recent reorganization of the company and the senior management team. Deborah McDermott remains as president, with all 10 stations reporting to her. In addition, Tom Sullivan has been elected board chair. Full Story | Comments (4)
Vince Young Exits Young Broadcasting
TVNewsCheck, Mar 25, 2011, 3:33 PM EDT
Vince Young has stepped down from his role as non-executive chairman of Young Broadcasting. His departure from the company that bears his family name was, in part, the result of his alignment with the group that unsuccessfully sought to have its bankruptcy reorganization plan imposed. Full Story | Add comment
TVNewsCheck FOCUS ON BUSINESS
Who's Really Running Young Broadcasting?
TVNewsCheck, Feb 2, 2011, 7:51 AM EST
It turns out it’s broadcast veteran Tony Cassara (left) along with other New Young’s board members Tom Sullivan, Sheldon Galloway and Kevin Shea. The board gets an assist from Young President Deborah McDermott who oversees KRON San Francisco, WATE Knoxville, Tenn., and WLNS Lansing, Mich. Cassara says the $2.2 million annual management contract with Gray Television is really an advisory agreement. “They do not manage our stations,” Cassara says. “The general managers of those seven stations report to the board.” Full Story | Comments (1)
Cox To Rep Young's 10 Stations
TVNewsCheck, Jan 10, 2011, 5:53 PM EST
TV rep firm Adam Young Inc., to cease operations at the end of January. A new Cox sales team will be based in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Full Story | Add comment
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Young Names Alfond GM At WTEN
Albany Times Union, Dec 7, 2010, 2:58 PM EST
Andrew Alfond is the new GM at Young Broadcasting's ABc affiliate in Albany, N.Y. He succeeds Mike Sechrist, who has been interim GM for almost two years. Link | Comments (2)

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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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