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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Monday, April 7, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

COVER STORY: The Disappearing TV Critic
By Marisa Guthrie
The fraternity of the nation’s television critics at daily newspapers was once a thriving milieu, dominated by a great diversity of committed voices. The critics’ opinions were sought, revered -- in many cases, even feared -- and blurbed in network on-air promos. That reality has changed drastically of late as the ranks of critics have grown noticeably leaner.

AMC, Nielsen Partner to Create New Metric
By Anne Becker
AMC is marrying its classic movies with research to offer advertisers what it said is the ability to target audiences as closely as Web search engines can.

FCC Kicks Back Fox's Married by America Appeal
By John Eggerton
Citing a procedural violation, the FCC decided not to take action on Fox's request that it reconsider the $91,000 indecency fine it levied against 13 Fox-owned or -affiliated stations for an April 7, 2003, airing of Married by America.

MediaFLO to Ramp Up Programming with New Spectrum
By Glen Dickson
Qualcomm said it will use the wireless spectrum it acquired in the FCC’s recent 700-megahertz auction to expand the programming offered by MediaFLO, the live mobile-TV service it currently operates on UHF broadcast spectrum in 58 markets across the country.

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Access Hollywood Hits 3,000 Episodes
By Paige Albiniak
NBC Universal will spend May sweeps celebrating the upcoming 3,000th episode of its syndicated entertainment magazine, Access Hollywood.

Brightcove Inks Distribution Deals with Meebo, Bebo, Veoh, Slide, RockYou
By Alex Weprin
Internet-TV-platform company Brightcove inked distribution deals with a number of Web sites, including social-networking site Bebo, social-media site Slide, widget creator RockYou, Internet-video site Veoh and instant-messaging service Meebo.

Martin, Baker to Appear at Senate Commerce Committee DTV Hearing
By John Eggerton
The Senate Commerce Committee will hear from the heads of the two key government agencies overseeing the digital-TV transition.

Equity Media Holdings Selling Five Stations
By Michael Malone
Plagued by money problems that it announced in an annual report earlier this week, Equity Media Holdings announced that its EBC Southwest Florida subsidiary is selling five low-power and class-A stations to Luken Communications.

Matt Polka Speaks for the Little Guy
By John Eggerton
Small cable operators are dealing with some big issues in Washington, D.C. American Cable Association president Matt Polka understands how some people have concluded that FCC chairman Kevin Martin has a vendetta against the cable industry but sees an ally in the chairman on program tying. Polka talked to B&C about how his members -- primarily small cable operators serving a few hundred or a few thousand viewers -- are faring in Washington.

LEFT COAST BIAS: Sean McManus’ Busy Season
By Ben Grossman
If you think there is so much stress at work right now that you may give your pharmacist an adjoining office, I have good news. It could be worse. You could be Sean McManus.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

NAB 2008: Smooth Operators
By Glen Dickson
While broadcasters' investments in high-definition production gear to launch HD newscasts have drawn much attention over the past year, many stations are also quietly overhauling the guts of their plant, replacing and/or upgrading master control switchers, routers, playout servers and automation systems to handle high-definition and multichannel playback.
From the 04/07/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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