Report from the Heartland
The tip that Air Force One was heading for the military air base just outside of town came from law enforcement. That’s all Tracy Madden, reporter and anchor on the 4 o’clock local news at WOWT-TV, the NBC affiliate in…
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Hindery returns
Leo Hindery was having breakfast with Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., in Washington early Sept. 11 when disaster struck New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Mr. Hindery, 53, drove back to New York on Sept. 12, where before the…
Leo at the bat
Leo Hindery is back!He is a perennial Yankees fan, a sports car racer, a cattle rancher, a cable mogul and a friend to the high-powered cable visionary John Malone and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.During the time between Mr. Hindery’s departure…
Media strains in disaster’s wake
Still reeling from the devastating human toll of last week’s tragic attacks, media companies-and the financial and advertising entities that support them-are coming to grips with the economic fallout of the extraordinary events.To be sure, the financial implications of last…
Metabyte, Navic jostle for position
Personal-video-recording and suggestion-engine software licensor Metabyte Networks has filed an application for a patent that would give the company ownership of a technology that tracks the television viewing habits of multiple viewers in the same household.If approved, the patent would…
Waxman still critical of Welch’s actions
Backing off a notch in his battle with the Peacock Network, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., last week conceded that former GE Chief Jack Welch may not have actually coerced NBC News into calling the presidential election last fall for George…
CNN producer swings into action
Rose Arce was just leaving home in Greenwich Village, not far from the World Trade Center, when she heard the explosion.“I opened up my cellphone and turned the corner and ran down the street,” she said. When she could get…
Cross-ownership may get blessing
The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 last week to launch a rulemaking that could cause the elimination of the rule that currently bars daily newspapers from buying broadcast stations in their markets.The so-called newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule, adopted in 1975, was…
Advertisers getting creative connection
As Hollywood more actively seeks creative and financial connections with advertisers, independent series producer Papazian-Hirsch Entertainment has found a unique marriage with leading commercial services company Johnson/Burnett Productions. The two companies have formed the joint “production-outreach” venture BrandMedia Entertainment, designed…
FCC carried out threat, Sinclair says
Charging that it is being unfairly discriminated against by the Federal Communications Commission, Sinclair Broadcast Group last week asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to force the agency to act on 19 of the company’s long-pending applications to…