Todays Headlines
- Louisville’s WHAS Mines Archives for ‘Friday Flashbacks’
On Friday, WHAS in Louisville gave viewers a flashback to a 1976 ‘Action 11’ newscast that included a report on the first day of school, a year into court ordered busing between black and white school districts, a weather report featuring flip chart maps rather than computer-generated ones, and a glimpse of a sign advertising 54-cent gasoline.
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Briefing Room
- Belo Report 6.4% Q3 Revenue Drop
Belo President/CEO Dunia Shive cites “worsening economic conditions,” impact of hurricanes in key markets.
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- FCC Committee Calls For “S” Class TV Stations
Committee for “diversity in the digital age” says broadcasters should be able to sublease digital spectrum.
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- Internet Broadcasting Offers ‘Election Night’ Package
Media network Internet Broadcasting partners with AP to give local stations quicker election updates.
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- LIN, TWC Work Out Retrans Deal
Agreement comes after four week battle, brings LIN back to 1.5 million subscribers.
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- LIN, Backchannelmedia to Launch ITV Pilot
LIN TV duopoly WTNH/WCTX to offer interactive “portal” in November as pilot for 29-station group.
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- Little Rock Anchor Anne Pressly Dies
KATV morning anchor dies at 26 after brutal assault on Oct. 26; police continue to search for suspects.
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- Election 2008: Stations Get in the Swing
Call them swing stations. If all politics is indeed local, station-level reporting in battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida may ultimately decide America’s next president.
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- Total Revenue Down At Gannett
Q3 operating revenue was $1.64 billion, down from $1.8 billion in the same quarter last year, but Olympics help boost broadcast revenue.
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- C-SPAN Seeks Oral Argument Tapes in Fox Swearing Case
Public Affairs Network Not Likely to Face Same FCC Trouble for Airing the Language as News Coverage
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- LIN, Fox Partner on Station Sites
Breaking with WorldNow, LIN TV turns to Fox Interactive Media to relaunch its stations sites nationwide.
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- Tandberg Nets DirecTV Deal For MPEG-4
Tandberg Television will supply encoders for new HD local markets.
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- Schechner Files Suit After KPIX ‘Took My Job’
Former KPIX reporter files age, gender discrimination suit against the station, which laid him and 13 others off in March.
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- Sandy Genelius Leaves CBS News for Sony
Veteran Communications Executive to Take Similar Role at Entertainment Giant
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- WTVF Nashville Sale Is Off
Sale of Landmark owned station to Bonten Media done in by the credit crunch.
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- Election 2008: News Media Get Trampled By Their Own Horse Race
Journalists, politicos and pundits gathered for the CNN/Time magazine Politics 2008 symposium, where they debated and criticized the media’s performance during the longest and perhaps most surreal election campaign in memory.
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- NBC Stations Launch ‘Locals Only’ Sites
New local sites to debut in major U.S. cities, including breaking news form other local sources as well as the NBC station.
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- WCAU Anchor Quits Amidst Legal Woes
Resignation Follows Upheaval at Competing Philadelphia Station
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Al Primo's Eyewitness Revolution
Forbes columnist James Brady writes about the impact of Albert Primo, the architect of the influential “Eyewitness News” format, on the occasion of the publication of Primo’s book “Eyewitness Newsman.”
On the Go
If local television news is going to survive, it will have to get out of the living room. And the den. And the kitchen. Having watched its audience shrink for years, the broadcast industry hopes to bring viewers back by taking its show on the road. But is mobile broadcasting really the answer? Read Deborah Potter’s analysis for American Journalism Review.
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