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TODAY'SNEWS
ABC News Now: The Anchors Are Laughing; the Network Is Not
By Marisa Guthrie
By now, you probably know about World News Now’s Ryan Owens and Taina Hernandez, the anchors of ABC News Now’s overnight newscast, who inexplicably cracked up while reporting on actor Owen Wilson’s suicide attempt last month. The clip -- and a subsequent on-air apology -- has been circulating via YouTube for the past couple of weeks.
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ABC Orders Game Show from BermanBraun
By Ben Grossman
ABC ordered 10 episodes of French format Duel, the first series pickup for the new production company.
IBC2007: Pro-Bel Introduces Small Routers
By Glen Dickson
Amsterdam, Netherlands -- U.K.-based routing, infrastructure and automation supplier Pro-Bel introduced Pyxis, a range of small-scale, multiformat routers targeted at postproduction firms, small studios and edit suites, at IBC2007 here.
COVER STORY: Putting the 'My' in MyNetworkTV
By Michael Malone
It was a rough first year for MyNetworkTV, to say the least, but a new strategy has network brass -- as well as many in the affiliate and advertising community -- optimistic. The fledgling network is offsetting losses and finding a voice through innovative programs dreamed up at the station level. And while every station manager in America talks about delivering hyper-local content to their viewers, MNT stations have delivered on this mission in spades.
New, Improved 'Access'
By Page Albiniak
Celebrity gossip has never been hotter. Web sites have made the celebrity news game more competitive than ever. Now syndication's entertainment magazines , which originated the genre now have to reinvent themselves. “It's just a simple fact that the landscape of entertainment news continues to get faster and faster,” says Rob Silverstein, executive producer of NBC Universal's Access...
Kick Start for a New Net
By Ben Grossman
As a lifelong sports fan, Mark Silverman loves seeing two sides duke it out in front of a large audience. But all of a sudden, the president of the Big Ten Network has found himself front and center in a nasty and very public battle of his own—to get his fledgling network on major cable systems around the country.
Stations, Cable 'Dual' Over Carriage
By John Eggerton
Broadcasters and cable operators have been crossing swords at the FCC over the issue of what cable operators' TV signal carriage obligations will be after the digital transition in February 2009. The cable industry says an FCC proposal being floated by the chairman and scheduled for a vote this week would give a new, and troubling, meaning to cable's vaunted “triple play.
Fox Business Network Launch Costs NBC Universal
By Anne Becker & Jon Hemingway
Fox Business Network landed its new slot on Time Warner Cable New York, prompting NBC Universal to plunk down a bucket of money to move its own cable networks down on the dial.
MTV Changes Its 'VMA' Style
By Anne Becker
This year, MTV's 24th annual Video Music Awards was cut to two hours, shot in Las Vegas and is scheduled to run in its original form for just one night, with remixes running throughout the week. With ratings down for the past several years, the network was hoping to inject some fresh energy into its marquee awards show and use it as a platform to kick off a push for viewer-generated content.
NBC News Examines ‘The Secret to Her Success’
By Marisa Guthrie
NBC News will launch a week-long series on women tailored to harness the company’s digital resources.
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