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Column: Can iPhone Save Local TV News?
Last week ABC News started offering text and video reports from the network and its owned stations for free on iPhones, joining CBS News, which lets citizen journalists upload videos of news on the street using their iPhones with the…
Editorial: DTV Switch Delay Needs to Happen
Barack Obama may not be president yet, but he showed the kind of leadership the media industry needs last week by asking for a delay of the planned Feb. 17 switch to all-digital television broadcast signals. The current administration should…
TV Groups Set Mobile TV Service Plans
Many major TV station groups have joined together under the Open Mobile Video Coalition for a new mobile digital TV service, MediaPost reports. About two dozen broadcasting companies have joined for the service, including NBC Television, Gannett Broadcasting, Fox Television,…
Broadcast Nets Support Obama’s DTV Delay Request
More broadcast networks have expressed their support for a DTV switch delay as requested by Barack Obama’s transition team, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Word of ABC’s support for the delay surfaced yesterday. Now Fox is backing “any efforts to ensure…
Future of TV at Consumer Electronics Show
The Los Angeles Times says the latest in television technology is on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Hot items include 3-D, super-thin screens, sharper pictures and wireless connections, the paper says. —Jon Lafayette
TiVo Looks to Find More Users With Search
TiVo is looking to lure more users to its next-generation digital-video recorders by including a search function based on shows’ relative popularity, the New York Times reports. Such functions will become necessary as more people will be able to download…
CNN, Facebook Form Inauguration Network
CNN and Facebook will create an application allowing viewers to watch this month’s presidential inauguration on CNN’s Web site while communication with Facebook friends, the Hollywood Reporter says. CNN is building Web capacity for the Jan. 20 event, which may…
Sweeney Touts Interactive ‘Lost’ in CES Speech
In the new season of “Lost” premiering Jan. 21, expect a lawyer to show up at the home of Kate Austen and demand a sample of blood. Someone—he can’t say who—wants to know if Kate is actually related to her…