Todays Headlines
- Tweaking the Hand That Feeds Him
"A lot, and I mean a lot of print people hate my blog," wrote Rick Hancock, the Internet and technology reporter for WTIC-TV Fox 61 Hartford, Conn., in the introduction to a posting on " My Bread and Butter Is in Money Trouble ... Newspapers Are to Blame!" on his ricksrss.com Web site. It's the introduction to his latest rant about Tribune, corporate parent of both his station and of newspapers including the Hartford Courant, the "dead tree" publication he often singles out for particular ridicule.
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- Westwood One Taps Cell-Phone Data for Traffic Reports
Westwood One announced a partnership with AirSage to combine traffic speed and flow information derived from cell-phone signals with into its Metro Traffic service starting this month.
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- RTNDA Revisits News and Terrorism Issues
The Radio and Television News Directors Association revisited the issues of improving news coverage in the event of terrorism at a News and Terrorism Workshop in San Diego last month, moderated by Aaron Brown, anchor of PBS program Wide Angle.
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Briefing Room
- Hurricane Gustav: New Orleans Stations Gear Up
In covering Hurricane Gustav, stations in the New Orleans market apply lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina.
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- Tribune Loses Another Senior Exec
Tribune Entertainment executive vice president and general manager Clark Morehouse jumps to start-up.
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- WVUE GM Moves to WAFF
WVUE New Orleans VP/GM Vanessa Oubre is shifting to Raycom's NBC affiliate WAFF Huntsville, Ala.
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- Wilmington Opts for Second Soft Test
Station managers in Wilmington, N.C., planning second, longer pre-test of analog switchoff.
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- Hurricane Center Foresees No Big Storms for Wilmington
Meteorologist: Weather won't be a concern during Wilmington digital switchover.
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- Fired Philly Anchor Pleads Guilty
Former KYW Philadelphia anchor Larry Mendte pleads guilty to felony count for hacking former co-anchor Alycia Lane’s personal e-mail account.
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- Franklin Out at WPMI/WJTC
Bob Franklin had been named GM of Newport Television's duopoly in Mobile, Ala., nearly two years ago.
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- Common Cause Proposes Media Goals for New Administration
Activist group releases "Media and Democracy in America Today: A Reform Plan for a New Administration."
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- NAB Places DTV-Education Signs at Conventions
National Association of Broadcasters places signage at airports in Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul to remind convention attendees of DTV transition.
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- FCC: Wilmington Stations Can Go Analog in Emergency
No loopholes available for stations making DTV switch Feb. 17, 2009.
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- WTVQ Rules for Judy Over News
Morris Network-owned ABC affiliate in Lexington, Ky., scrapping 5 p.m. news for Judge Judy.
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- Wendy Williams to Get Mid-2009 Launch
Fox-owned TV stations to launch Debmar-Mercury-distributed The Wendy Williams Show in group's 18 markets in mid-2009.
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- Convention Coverage on a Budget
Stations in Denver and Minneapolis are coming up with innovative ways to cover the political conventions on what are often limited budgets.
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- Disney Denies O&O Sale
Media giant denies Caris & Co. speculation that it may sell 10 ABC-owned TV stations, invest in content.
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- Young: Let's Talk About Growth, Not KRON
Young Broadcasting chairman Vincent Young tries to stress positives, but questions about pending sale of KRON San Francisco continue.
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- Tribune Takes Huge Write-Off, Operations Steady
Tribune follows Media General, LIN TV, Gannett down write-off path.
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- Buzz Fuels ACME Revenue Boost
10% revenue jump at syndicated morning program The Daily Buzz helps to fuel ACME Communications in Q2.
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- WISC Hires Disgraced Senate Power Broker
Former Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala to host political talk segments on station’s Channel3000.com site.
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- Chyron Posts Strong Q2, Touts Web-Based Graphics
Gannett Broadcasting will be online with Axis Graphics technology in October.
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Around The Web
TV News Struggles to Balance Hurricane, GOP Convention Coverage
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Tim Cuspin writes: It's always hard for TV news to focus on more than one story at a time. So it probably was a wise decision to scale back the first day of the Republican National Convention when it became clear that Hurricane Gustav was targeting the Louisiana coast.
TV News Looking Over Its Shoulder
Las Vegas Review-Journal media critic Steve Bornfeld: Beyond the arrogance lies ... irrelevance? … It's a mind-set shared by many local stations throughout the nation to varying degrees of self-aggrandizement -- and self-delusion -- that they can no longer afford in the a la carte media world forged by instant info online, bloggers, galloping technology and shifts to news with 'tude.
CBS Unveils CNET Web-Site Redesign
CBS introduced a redesigned home page for CNET Networks, the Internet company it purchased for $1.8 billion, and said it would use its TV network, radio stations and billboard to promote the site.
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