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If you believe in numbers, news coverage of the war or terrorism is just about history. The anniversary of Sept. 11 notwithstanding, the amount of time that broadcast news organizations devote to covering terrorism has virtually reached “nonstory” status, according…
In launching perhaps its most crucial TV season in recent years, The Walt Disney Co.’s ABC Television Network is pulling out all the stops by partnering with McDonald’s Corp. for a sweeping marketing effort to launch its “ABC Happy Hour”…
What it is: Galileo weather graphics system from AccuWeather. The hardware and software system to create and display weather has been in development for three years.How it works: Galileo is a PC-based graphics animation system that can produce weather graphics…
KCBS-TV cameraman dies in copter crashLos Angeles-Larry Greene, a KCBS-TV cameraman for 24 years, was killed Friday when a U.S. Navy helicopter on which he was riding crashed in the North Arabian Gulf. Four sailors were injured. A military official…
New York-The first thing you may notice about the fourth-season premiere of “The Sopranos” is what’s gone. The twin towers of the World Trade Center are gone. Just as they have vanished in what we call real life, they have…
In our NewsPro section this week, we are proud to be part of a special booklet put together in conjunction with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. It is entitled “9/11 to 9/11: A Tribute to News Professionals.”NATAS…
Last year, television and radio were universally praised for their coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. This year, with the one-year anniversary approaching, everyone wonders whether the coverage will be respectful and meaningful or wretched excess.Already the critics are…
Title: Executive VP, national sales and customer marketing, ESPN Recent interesting deal: “Difficult to separate one or two deals when we are selling everything from X-Games to Super Bowl to the Bowl Championship Series, but the most interesting deals we…
Posted Friday, Sept. 6 KCBS-TV cameraman dies in copter crash Larry Greene, a cameraman for KCBS-TV, Los Angeles, for 24 years, was killed Friday when a U.S. Navy helicopter on which he was riding crashed in the North Arabian Gulf….
Posted Thursday, Sept. 5 NBC plans Telemundo station in Boston NBC plans to use WPXB-TV, the Merrimack, N.H., station for which it has agreed to pay Paxson Communications $26 million in cash, to give the Boston market its first full-power…