Todays Headlines

• Will Your Newscast 'Ignite?'
  Time to face your fears about production automation. Just make sure you have "a backup to your backup."
  more » » » 
  
  
• Broadcasters Behaving Badly
  It’s embarrassing, and a huge challenge for station management, when news personalities become the news, as in Philadelphia’s Larry Mendte/Alycia Lane saga.
  more » » » 

• WCSC Pairs Kaleido-X Multi-Viewer With New HD Newscast Monitoring
  The Charleston, S.C., station uses better monitoring to improve production coordination across two studios.
  more » » » 

Briefing Room

• RTNDA Says Leave Sponsorship ID Rules Alone
  RTNDA moves to prevent "government regulation of the content of newscasts."
  more » » » 
  
  
• KFSN Fresno GM Resigns After Court Comments About Hispanics
  Executive made off-hand comment about Hispanics while under consideration for jury duty.
  more » » » 
  
  
• Six Fired For Accessing Pressly Hospital Files
  A routine patient-privacy audit revealed that as many as eight employees had looked at the medical files of KATV Little Rock anchor Anne Pressly, who was attacked in a home invasion October 20 and died five days later. Six were fired when they could show no legitimate medical reason for accessing the information.
  more » » » 
  
  
• BIM to Drive NBC's 'Locals Only' Sites
  Broadcast Interactive Media to provide technology for relaunched NBC O&O Websites.
  more » » » 
  
  
• Kristin-Cam Connects KATV Viewers
  Little Rock station puts reporter on camera – all day, via webcam.
  more » » » 
  
  
• Let’s Praise (Not Bury) Linear TV
  Local newscasts survived cable, so maybe they will survive the digital transition as well.
  more » » » 
  
  
• Local News from the Beltway
  How Hearst-Argyle fills the demand for "national news for local newscasts."
  more » » » 
  
  
• If 'Oprah' Goes, Time Slot War Starts
  Expanded news programming likely to fill the gap.
  more » » » 
  
  
• Fox and NBC Want To Take Joint News Service National
  Fox Television Stations and NBC Local Media are joining forces on a local news service to launch in Philadelphia in January. Similar setups will follow in other markets where both media giants own stations, and the principals eventually hope to see it in place in all markets where Fox and NBC have affiliates.
  more » » » 
  
  
• WCVB Boston in Fine Hands
  B&C's Michael Malone profiles WCVB Boston President/General Manager Bill Fine.
  more » » » 
  
  

Around The Web

TV newscasts bribing viewers to boost ratings
Gasoline is the new sex. Sweeps-wise, that is. Analysis from Las Vegas Review-Journal TV critic Steve Bornfeld.

Refocused
A year after leaving Channel 5, Natalie Jacobson talks candidly about her life - and about the state of television news Boston’s 35 years at WCVB-TV (Channel 5).

On TV, Computer Graphics Eclipse The News, Anchors, Results
Holograms walked the studio. Reporters roamed virtual answer chambers. Maps flashed and revolved and zoomed in and were painted on ice with what looked like exterminator’s gear. The Hartford Courant’s Roger Catlin critiques the election coverage.