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Editorial: High-Flying Heroics, ‘Law’ Builds Library

Kudos to the men and women who covered the wildfires in Southern California last week, especially the pilots of the helicopters. This past summer we reached a tragic nadir of local TV news coverage, as helicopters covering a car chase…

Local Stations Bring Wildfire Story Home

Reporters Cover the Community as San Diego Burns

Figuring Out Where Mobile Television Is Going

Content Providers, Distributors Agree Consumer Education Is Key for Future

Media Ownership Battle Heating Up

Congress Opposed to Martin’s Speedy Review

Trial By Fire: Station Web Site Coverage Comes of Age

The fires that ravaged Southern California last week were one of the first major local news stories to demonstrate there’s widespread consumer interest in watching local news online. Most of the local broadcasters in Los Angeles and San Diego augmented…

NBC News Veteran Cummins Dies

Jim Cummins, who worked his way up through Midwest stations to a three-decade career as a correspondent with NBC News, died Friday. He was 62 and had been diagnosed with cancer after retiring from NBC News earlier this year. In…

McCain Campaign Won’t Stop Using Fox Footage in Ad

Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is flatly rejecting Fox News Channel’s request that it cease using in a campaign ad video of comments he made during the channel’s GOP debate Oct. 20. The 30-second ad includes 18 seconds of the…

Promax/BDA Appoints Block-Verk President

Promax/BDA tapped Jonathan Block-Verk as the new president of the marketing and design nonprofit association, appointing a successor to Jim Chabin. Mr. Block-Verk previously served as VP/group publisher and executive producer of events for the commercial production industry’s Boards Magazine….

Producers Submit New Proposal in WGA Talks

With less than a week left on the Writers Guild of America’s contract, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers placed what it called a “comprehensive proposal” on the bargaining table during today’s talks. The WGA said it would…

Copps Wants FCC to Thoroughly Review Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Purchase

Federal Communications Commission member Michael J. Copps is suggesting the agency take a close look at Rupert Murdoch’s plan to buy the Wall Street Journal and not give it perfunctory approval. In a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin,…