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Networks ever closer to leaving local stations for younger, sexier cable channels? 3 Phoenix stations, 1 chopper. Sharing toys like your momma learned you
WBAL Scrotum Loving Reporter who doctored video, gets bounced. Buh bye!
Announced today by NBC News president Steve Capus Weather Plus will be history by December 31st.
And with good reason, NBC (over?)spent $3.5 bilion on The Weather Channel in July. Then put WTVJ and WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut on the chopping block to help offset some of the cost.
Post Newsweek won [...]
WSVN’s sibling in Boston is turning the HD switch on Moday at 4pm (or tuesday at the latest) according to Boston media blog The Scoop and btvn
They just got done re-modeling their newsplex. The video wall behind the anchors with all the little monitors was shortened a bit and in their [...]
MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, announced the winners of their 6th annual MADD Media Awards program today and WFOR took home one.
CBS4 News was awarded an Award for Excellence for Broadcast for their series on alcohol-laced energy drinks. The Pensacola News Journal won the print award.
Nationally ‘Inside Edition’ [...]
Because your cable bill isn’t high enough already: Univision to abandon its must-carry status and negotiate retransmission-consent deals for affiliate stations; CEO Joe Uva says being the top Spanish network carries a $1/month per subscriber value. Will be 2nd to ESPN as most expensive.
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