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In the middle of the networks’ scramble to cover unfolding events after the terrorist attacks in New York, no one expected that CBS’s sharing of its national news feed with its Viacom-owned sister network, UPN, would rankle anyone’s feathers. The…
`Small Town X’ winner among lost firefightersLos Angeles-Among the people missing in the World Trade Center bombing is the winner from Fox reality show “Murder in Small Town X.” Firefighter and $250,000 winner Angel Juarbe has been confirmed as having…
When the first hijacked jetliner crashed into the World Trade Center, WTTG-TV, Fox’s owned-and-operated station in Washington, dispatched four news teams to New York to cover the breaking events.“We deployed every person we could put our hands on,” said VP…
We use this space regularly to chastise the television industry when we disagree with the way it goes about its business. But in the face of a tragedy on the scale of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade…
Life in a bunker had always been the stuff of movies for reporter Bob Ward of Boston’s Fox owned-and-operated station WFXT-TV, but that is exactly how he spent 11 hours on that fateful Tuesday morning last week.Mr. Ward covered local…
When Discovery Channel viewers watched “Inside the Space Station” last year, they probably had no idea the show had been created in a radically different way than shows past. The special and several other Discovery productions were produced as part…
With national ads having all but dried up in El Paso, Texas, some station managers say the market is pacing between 5 percent and 10 percent behind where it was a year ago.According to BIA Financial Network, El Paso TV…
Most companies in the content business have material they would like to archive, manage and turn into profit. Now IBM is aiming to help content providers do just that with a new suite of digital-asset-management products.You don’t have to know…
Automakers that cut back their ad-spending levels in the first half of the year have seen their sales decrease, while those that held the line or increased spending have benefited by selling more vehicles.That is the bottom-line data offered by…
What a difference a year makes in Electronic Media’s sixth annual list of the Most Powerful People in Television News.Promotions have taken some familiar faces-Andy Lack and Jeff Zucker’s among them-off the list. Mr. Lack, who ranked first for the…