The Dallas-area’s television stations are keeping their analog transmissions, although a few Spanish-language stations didn’t return calls for comment, the Dallas Morning News reports. Managers at local stations say the cost of maintaining both analog and digital signals is justified…
TV stations in the Washington, D.C., area will maintain their analog signals until the June 12 digital transition date, the Washington Post reports. Two Baltimore stations, Fox affiliate WBFF-TV and the CW affiliate WNUV-TV, turned off their analog signals early,…
Nine Georgia television stations, including Atlanta’s PBS affiliate WGTV-TV, switched to digital broadcasting, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Bonnie Bean, the acting executive director of Georgia Public Broadcasting, said the station’s old equipment and looming state budget cuts were some of…
The transition to digital television went smoothly for most residents in San Diego, whose major broadcast stations turned off their analog signals early, the Los Angeles Times reports. Fox affiliate KSWB-TV received just 20 calls about the switch by midmorning…
Sinclair-owned Las Vegas station duopoly KVCW-TV and KVMY-TV rolled the dice on a Feb. 17 digital switchover, and so far the bet appears to be a winning one, with very few calls about the loss of the analog signal, TelevisionWeek…
The Wall Street Journal says that despite an increase by Comcast, cable companies pay much smaller dividends than their telco competitors. Comcast also announced a decline in fourth quarter video subscribers, TelevisionWeek reports. —Jon Lafayette
In a second day of contract negotiations, the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers discussed issues until 10 p.m., and the two sides agreed to reconvene at 1 p.m. today, the Hollywood Reporter says….
“Project Runway” will wrap shooting of its sixth season in New York Friday, but its winner, and even its contestants, will remain a secret until a court rules on where and when it will be seen, the Washington Post reports….
Anheuser-Busch’s attempt to build Bud.tv into an entertainment oriented Web site ended, Advertising Age reports. The cost to produce TV quality content proved to be too much for even a giant brewer with a big budget, the trade paper says….
ABC’s station group is putting forward a proposal to offer ad buyers a discounted package for Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast, a deal that would include 35 spots to run on nine of ABC’s local stations, MediaPost reports. The cost of…