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850,000 Total square feet of exhibit space at this week’s combined RTNDA/NAB conference in Las Vegas113,30 Approximate number of attendees at last April’s NAB conference in Las Vegas3,000 Approximate number of attendees that had been expected to attend RTNDA conference…
When Ken Jobe became news director at CBS-owned WWJ-TV and UPN affiliate WKBD-TV in Detroit in November, he hit the ground running.“We were in the middle of the book and coming up on December,” Mr. Jobe said. “I got here…
Until recently, television stations that broadcast in a language other than English had few choices when it came to news production systems, which typically operate only in English. That’s why it wasn’t unusual to find stations such as KTSF-TV, San…
The deadline for commercial stations to convert at least part of their signals to digital is less than one month away, and about 1,000 stations still haven’t made the switch, according to the National Association of Broadcasters.At this week’s NAB…
Passages … with Tom BrokawThere’s nothing like receiving a lifetime achievement award-or renegotiating a contract-to make one take stock of one’s life. Ask Tom Brokaw, who will get the Paul White Award for lifetime achievement Monday in Las Vegas from…
New products roll out, equipment breaks down and newsroom needs change. Those are challenges television station engineers and news executives face every day, but what if you could start over and build your ideal newsroom from the ground up?That’s what…
A buyer may emerge in the coming months to acquire the proposed combined Gray Communications and Benedek Broadcasting station group. That was the speculation of broadcast TV brokers and analysts last week as Gray announced it would acquire bankrupt Benedek…
Networks cancel midseason showsAs part of an expected midseason purge, UPN and network overseer CBS decided to pull the plug on the repurposed run of “The Amazing Race 2” after it experienced poor ratings and generated complaints from affiliates of…
RTNDA panels resurrectedSome panels scheduled for last September’s canceled Radio-Television News Directors Association convention will get a second shot this week at the RTNDA@NAB confab in Las Vegas. Expected to draw a large audience is the super session “The State…
Odds have always been stacked against network TV pilots getting strong initial audience sampling-it’s sort of like gambling the mortgage on the roulette wheel. That’s why MRCGroup, a Las Vegas-based research company, is getting network and studio executives to realize…