Fierce World War II battles in the Pacific, told from the point of view of a decorated Marine sergeant who went on to become an acclaimed biographer, and an inside-the-Oval-Office look at Washington’s response to the 9/11 terror attacks are…
Sinclair Broadcast Group said Thursday that it is revising its estimates for its first-quarter net broadcast revenues due to the impact of the war in Iraq on advertising spending. Sinclair did not update or reconfirm its full-year revenue estimates, saying…
As the Radio-Television Association convenes this week at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, the men and women who run local news operations find themselves confronted by unprecedented challenges, ranging from the expensive conversion to high-definition broadcasting…
As station executives gather for this week’s National Association of Broadcasters 2003 technology showcase in Las Vegas, engineers, general managers and news directors are window shopping, looking for the tools they’ll need to further or finish their stations’ digital transition.Stations…
DirecTV, the nation’s largest satellite-delivered programming service, has been the center of a great deal of speculation over its fate for nearly two years. A merger bid by EchoStar was nixed by the government. Last week SBC Communications dropped out…
“All news is biased. We need, and have, multiple sources from which to construct a balanced picture. More worrying is the hunger for high drama and sensationalism at all the networks. This has contributed to a degradation of news programming…
Conventional wisdom says that the best way to reach the most affluent adults is likely through key upscale magazines and some newspapers. But David Marans, research director for media agency MindShare U.S., has another idea: TV.The problem, in general, is…
In an effort to plug a loophole in the digital TV transition, broadcasters have asked the Federal Communications Commission to establish regulations to bar the sale of cable-ready digital TV monitors that can’t receive over-the-air broadcasts.FCC regulations already require that…
After we arrived in Kuwait a month or more ago, it became immediately apparent to us that there were two ways to cover this war: as an embedded reporter (not an option given my obligation to anchor an evening newscast…
The ABC Network was the target of a savvy April Fool’s parody on the Web last week, which included a tongue-in-cheek announcement that the entire schedule would henceforth consist of reality shows such as Canine Crime 2003, American Pimp (and…