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KUSA Anchor Recovering After On-Air Dog Bite
KUSA Denver anchor Kyle Dyer is recovering in the hospital after she was bitten in the mouth by an 85-pound Argentine mastiff during a morning newscast Wednesday. The station says Dyer, who underwent reconstructive surgery, will be out of action for a while. The clip has gone viral, but KUSA is trying to stop that, reports the Yahoo News blog The Cutline: Video of the attack, as you might imagine, ... More
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Station to Station covers the odds, ends, ups and downs of the local television business across America
AMC Geeks Out With 'Comic Book Men'
AMC is giving its viewers a peek inside the world of comic books with its newest unscripted series, Comic Book Men. The network held a Q&A with media members on Tuesday afternoon at Caroline’s on Broadway in New York, featuring filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Red State, Dogma), an executive producer for the show and Charlie Corwin, another executive producer, and the cast. The serie ... More
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Commentary, analysis and observations on the business of television from the staff of Broadcasting & Cable.
Dick Ebersol: Super for the Last Time?
In the New York Giants’ locker room after the Super Bowl, a familiar figure wearing a blue down vest was congratulating people from the winning team including Ann Mara, widow of late Giant’s owner Wellington Mara. For former NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol, it was the end of what might have been his last season on the road producing NFL games. And probably his final Super Bowl. And ... More
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B&C Business Editor Jon Lafayette covers the financial dimension of the TV business at the intersection of Wall Street and Madison Ave.
TV Review: ABC's 'The River'
ABC premieres its new mockumentary-style thriller The River on Tuesday in a two-hour event beginning at 9 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The River in its early hours doesn’t ask to be taken more seriously than as the long-form B-movie it is. Made with ingenuity and verve, it substitutes the half-glimpsed and suggestive for the ... More
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BC Review offers one-stop shopping for TV fanatics, with a roundup of the latest reviews from the leading critics.
Putting Our Finger On FCC Indecency Policy
There was lots of chatter and twitter Monday over the bird flipped during the Super Bowl half-time show on NBC Sunday and whether that could possibly draw the FCC’s attention as a violation of indecency policy. Currently, there are over a million complaints pending due to the current court challenges and ongoing uncertainty about the FCC’s ability to enforce its policy, but the middl ... More
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BC/DC is the media executives\' must-see view from Washington, delivered by yours truly without the aid of rose-colored glasses and without the need, quite yet, of bifocals.
Introducing THE Company
Charlie Ebersol and Justin Hochberg are launching their own production company, The Hochberg Ebersol Company (or THE Company for short, kind of like Vegas’ THEhotel). Already wrapped and ready to go is Off the Grid: Million Dollar Manhunt, a one-hour special that will air on History Channel on Dec. 8 at 11 p.m. “We’ve built a company that is nimble like a start-up and delivers ... More
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WBTV’s Roth: ‘Nikita’ Big Part of The CW’s Future
With 26 Warner Bros. TV-produced series now slated to air on the broadcast networks next season, WBTV President Peter Roth says it is “another satisfying year” for the studio. WBTV is in business with all of the networks–with five new series on NBC’s schedule alone after being shut out of the network’s 10 p.m. hour last year by The Jay Leno Show. WBTV’s un ... More
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