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Tuesday Nov. 19 Maher gets talker on HBO Bill Maher is returning to television in a new late-night one-hour HBO talk show.The show, debuting Feb. 21, has a 20-episode commitment. “Politically Incorrect,” Mr. Maher’s political talk show on ABC, was…
Monday, Nov. 18 ‘Grounded’ jumping from Fox to WB “Grounded For Life” is switching networks. The sitcom, currently airing on Fox, will move to The WB early next year. The WB has picked up six new episodes of the family…
AP Broadcast has introduced a series of new products to enhance TV stations’ Web sites and augment their on-air news with additional information. The new services are Streaming Headline News, which consists of 10 headline tickers for on-air, and CustomWIRE,…
48 Percent of news directors who said the most serious obstacle to producing quality news is not having enough staff.12 Number of local TV stations out of 53 studied that received an “A” grade for the quality of their newscasts…
One might think that after Andrea Thompson’s flameout on CNN Headline News, news directors would shy away from hiring TV personalities in the newsroom.One would be wrong.Two news directors in big markets have gone out on a hiring limb recently,…
In states that have not banned the use of noncompete clauses in employment contracts, their validity depends on three specific tests of “reasonableness”:Duration: Courts in many states have held that a term of six months to one year provides reasonable…
Despite years of conversation and compromise with educators, TV news directors say graduates of broadcast journalism programs still lack many of the basic skills they need to succeed. Educators counter that broadcasters are sometimes unrealistic in their expectations.A survey of…
The plight of a broadcaster in the midst of a noncompete agreement might be compared to that of a couple of kids fighting over a toy. The first child doesn’t want to play with it anymore, but wants to make…
What it is: Ucentric Multi-TV personal video recorder from Ucentric in Maynard, Mass.What it does: Ucentric Multi-TV PVR is an unbranded PVR software application that combines Ucentric’s PVR capability with its home media software to provide PVR functionality on more…
The biggest story in Hollywood last week was the engagement of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. It will be his first divorce; her third. The second-biggest story was the launch of MovieLink, the studio-backed Internet movie service that many analysts…