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SFLTV.com comment of the day: “[18:40] meeboguest28622: I don’t know if SFLTV received news of NBC dumping Jay Leno’s show at 10PM, and moving him back to 11:35PM after the Winter Olympics or not. Hope that could be the breaking news that SFLTV.com is working on.”
Yes. Yes we are aware… and just in case you weren’t (and somehow live under a rock), FTVLive.com broke the story first on the Jay Leno/Conan situation.
The locally inserted commercials by cable companies have to be worst offenders when it comes to loudness. Now congress is taking on them with a new act called CALM, Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation, (yay for “clever” acronyms). The act will attempt to make the volume of commercials uniform.
Now how do we fix the general campiness that local ads are known for?
(4)Yesterday The Wrap went out with an exclusive story that Comcast is making a move to buy NBC Universal! According to the site the deal is already sealed and the cable giant is said to be shelling out $35 billion for NBC Universal. A highly leveraged move since Comcast itself has a $48billion market cap and only about $4 billion in cash.
NBC Universal had $7.5 billion in revenues in the first half of 2009 and made $1.6 billion in profit.
Interestingly Comcast PR didn’t deny the news completely but said that the report is “inaccurate”. The LA Times says it’s possible Comcast may be looking at some sort of a joint venture or a stake in NBC Universal instead of an outright buy.
As of 11:43am eastern Comcast stock is down 7.52%
Not sure if this is good news or bad news considering the state of NBC’s local news. A highly leveraged buy such as this might not leave much room for improving local news and their ever shrinking budgets.
After much heavy promotion by NBC the new Jay Leno show has arrived, making its debut right now to TV audiences on the east coast.
So far at 37 minutes into it the Twitterverse isn’t being kind to Leno’s new gig, to put it mildly.
WHDH owner Ed Ansin caused a brouhaha in April 2009 when his station announced they won’t air the new Jay Leno show. At the time Ansin told the Boston Globe he thinks Leno won’t be effective in prime time. NBC threatened to strip WHDH of their affiliation if they proceeded to move Leno to 11pm. Ten days later NBC announced Leno will air on WHDH after all, leading some to speculate Ansin caved in to NBC or that NBC offered him some kind of deal in order to stave off all the negative publicity generated by the rebel NBC affiliate.
If you watched Leno’s new gig tell us what you thought of it, take the poll after the jump
Continue reading ‘Leno Debuts Tonight; What Did You Think?’
“I’ve been doing this long enough to realize there is no NBC. NBC is a bunch of trailers over in Burbank. The real NBC is the affiliates…”
Jay Leno on the summer press tour for his upcoming show on NBC.
Signature ‘Tonight Show’ pieces Leno did will be at th end leading to the 11pm news on local affiliates. He says there’s also no desk, at least for the first 45 minutes
TVWeek has the whole thing transcribed. [copped from LostRemote]
news is just coming out that former CBS newsman Walter Cronkite has passed away at the age of 92.
update: WTVJ report on Cronkite’s death /hat tip to reader bgmiami87 for uploading/
Continue reading ‘Walter Cronkite Has Passed Away’
The 'Brains' of NBC
In a recent CNBC interview, NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker said what could possibly be the quote of the month… year…
“I think we’ve reached the bottom”
I’m not quite sure what’s funnier; The fact he thinks this is rock bottom, or the fact that he’s actually mentioning how low NBCU has sunk. If anyone had any doubts about the current state of NBCUni, the premier of their summer hit “I’m a Celeberty… Get me out of here!” crushed any remaining hope. The big kicker? The continuation to the above quote. Continue reading ‘Jeff Zucker: “I think we’ve reached the bottom”’
You say “I’m sick of Michael Jackson,” yet it seems as if it’s too damn tempting not to watch. Nielsen says 30.9 million viewers watched the service, which aired on 18 different networks. Overseas audience proved to be huge as well. Coverage in the United Kingdom averaged 4 million viewers. An amazing 20 million people in Germany tuned in as well. This does not, however, reflect the outstanding amount of people watching online video streams. MNSBC.com reports that they broke a single-day record with 19 million video streams.
MJ places third in ratings. Former President Ronald Reagan’s burial ceremony in 2005 was seen more than 35 million people; 33 million tuned in to Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997.
btw I’m near Seattle, in case you’re wondering why I’m blathering about this …
update3: KOMO is back via cable and it’s a very barebones newscast.
They have laptops for Paul Deanno and the traffic girl placed on top of covered up recycling bins. There are no graphics or ad breaks. Paul is delivering his forecast without any visuals at all. And the traffic girl used her laptop and a website to show traffic conditions. The anchors have no prompters, obviously, so they are all ad libing their way trough this.
And it appears that KOMO was knocked out around 11:15pm PST last night! So they have been out for nearly 7 hours.
Continue reading ‘Fisher Communications and KOMO Suffer Huge Outage’
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