Todays Headlines

• Virtual Sets Finding Their Niche
  The use of virtual sets constructed digitally within a newsroom graphics system, rather than hammered together with wood and metal, is becoming increasingly common for news magazine, sports, and special events shows such as election coverage, as well as for some newscasts.
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• At CNBC, Virtual Sets Move from Specials to Flagship Suze Orman Show
  How CNBC has expanded its use of virtual set technology, starting with limited run series like ‘Business Nation,’ ‘The Business of Innovation’ and ‘Collaboration Now.’
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• Avid Updates TV News Website Tools
  Avid Technology releases Avid Active ContentManager 3.0 and offers a key component, Avid NewsPoller, as a separate module.
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Briefing Room

• B&C’s 2008 General Managers of the Year: Good Leaders for Changing Times
  It takes brains and a strong stomach to run a standout TV station these days, and the winners of Broadcasting & Cable‘s 2008 Station General Manager of the Year–given out for markets 1-25, 26 , and Spanish-language broadcasting–show these qualities in spades.
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• Fresh Syndicated Talk Fares Best
  Shows hang on despite Chicago preemptions for news coverage of Illinois Gov.
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• Grayson Goes from ‘Early’ to ‘Nightly’
  CBS Early Show producer Aurelia Grayson named senior broadcast producer for NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams.
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• Local TV Up 1.2% in Q3
  Strong political advertising contributed to the increase
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• Barclays Revises TV Ad Forecast Downward
  TV station ad revenue projected to fall 15.5% in 2009
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• Detroit Stations Eye Opportunity As Papers Pull Back
  Station managers say they are interested in reaching out to paper’s advertisers
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• Ike Walker Out at KTKA
  Left to pursue another opportunity
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• Hearst-Argyle’s Fred Young Honored With Paul White Award
  Senior VP of news to receive the Paul White Award, the association’s highest honor
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• Kiernan Named News Director at WBBM
  Moves to Chicago from WBZ Boston.
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Around The Web

Strapped Local Stations Look To Web For Cash
Forbes: As advertising falters, station managers have big plans for the Internet.

WUSA Moves to One-Person News Crews
Washington Post: The march of technology and the shrinking economy are beginning to take a toll on the traditional means of television news-gathering: the TV news crew. WUSA, Washington will become the first station in Washington to replace its crews with one-person "multimedia journalists" who will shoot and edit news stories single-handedly.

A Generation of Local TV Anchors Is Signing Off
Wilmington Star-News: Across the country, longtime local TV anchors are a dying breed. Facing an economic slump and a severe advertising downturn, many stations have cut costs drastically in the last year, and veteran anchors, with their expensive contracts, seem to be shouldering a disproportionate share of the cutbacks.