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WEEK-TV plays in Peoria. The Granite Broadcasting-owned NBC affiliate in East Peoria, Ill., reached the peak of news success 25 years ago and has remained at the summit since then. WEEK has been rated No. 1 in nearly every newscast…
Raycom Media-owned NBC affiliate WMC-TV in Memphis signed on in 1948 as the first station in Tennessee, and it has been No. 1 for most of its 55 years. Its 5 p.m. news has claimed victory in every book since…
Atlanta’s ABC affiliate, WSB-TV, had crushed the local competition for so long that 10 years ago, the station’s general manager Greg Stone decided to raise the bar. He wanted the Cox-owned station to win across the board against all stations…
* In “`Classmates,’ `Ambush’ Make Grade” (TelevisionWeek, Aug. 11), Twentieth Television has ordered six additional weeks of production for “Classmates” and “Ambush Makeover.”* In “News Shows Skew Gray” (TelevisionWeek, Aug. 11), the dominant demographic in prime time for Fox News…
Like many local news leaders, KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Mo., isn’t content to simply measure itself against its neighbors. The Hearst-Argyle ABC affiliate also stacks up nicely when compared with other ABC stations around the country. KMBC has been the…
With consolidation and technology putting increasing pressure on news operations nationwide, the very survival of local news at times appears to be in question. But it is exactly those pressures that make support for local news more important and its…
People in television tend to lose sight of how TV looks to the rest of the world, the ordinary Americans, rich and poor, who have accepted it as part of their lives but still, after more than half a century,…
Des Moines, Iowa, CBS affiliate KCCI-TV claims an astounding distinction: Its late local newscast at 10 p.m. has been the highest-rated newscast of any local broadcast station in the country several times during the past few years, said Dave Busiek,…
“Endangered,” “beleaguered,” “even worse than it seems”-such are the descriptions insiders use to describe the current state of the telepic industry.“The broadcast networks scaled back dramatically and we all thought that the business would go to cable nets,” said Deborah…
Last spring, I asked 100 TV executives to predict which new TV technology is most likely to succeed. The choices were high-definition TV, video-on-demand, interactive TV and the digital video recorder. By a 2-1 margin, the TV insiders picked the…