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  • Sen. Cantwell Criticizes GannettBelo Deal

    Media consolidation critic Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) Tuesday criticized Gannett over its proposal to buy Belo stations, including three in Washington state, to create a so-called Super Group.Gannett is disallowed by FCC local market caps from retaining ownership of Belo stations in five markets where it already owns a ...

  • Wheeler meets with Congress

    Whenever we've attended a hearing with a nominee to the FCC, the answers are usually short on specifics, and the 6/18/13 session with FCC Chairman nominee Tom Wheeler was no exception. At one point he even said he was "specifically trying not to be specific." A number of broadcast issues did come up. Issues affecting broadcasters included, prominently, the incentive auction. Also ...

  • Wheeler FCC Should Look Into Consumers Held Hostage Over Corporate Disputes

    Says might be time for another Newton Minow call for better programming; Republican Senator also says that nominee's answer on FCC authority re political ad disclosures could potentially derail ...

  • Best And Worst Balancing Acts In Hollywood Film And TV Production History

    franchises and other hits, made waves this week with a major executive hire. The company, launched more than a decade ago by Thomas Tull, is bringing longtime Warner Bros. television chief Bruce Rosenblum in to steer Legendary's push into TV and digital production. (An interesting video interview with Tull about his approach to the movie business is posted ...

  • Angelina Jolies stunt double Eunice Huthart sues Rupert Murdochs News Corp over phone hacking

    United States A former stunt double who worked closely with actress Angelina Jolie is suing News Corp and its subsidiary News International over alleged phone hacking.British-born Eunice Huthart was a stunt double for Hollywood actress Jolie for more than a decade, and is godmother to one of Jolie's children.Her legal action against Rupert Murdoch's US companies has taken the phone ...


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In Eyes Wide Open, his memoir of working with the late director Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay for his last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), writer Frederic Raphael relates a story in which Kubrick was discussing the possibility of making a film about the Holocau ... ...

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  • Rupert Murdoch splits empire but keeps faith in tomorrows newspapers

    publishing assets, including HarperCollins and its troubled newspaper division, will trade under the old News Corp name.Shareholders have long pressed for a split, disenchanted with the returns from publishing, particularly newspapers, as the shift to digital readership eats into profits. Murdoch resisted but caved in after the phone-hacking scandal shook his company to its foundations, leading ...

  • Wheeler Merger Reviews Should Be Fact-Specific

    In early questioning by Senate Commerce Committee leaders, FCC nominee Tom Wheeler pledged to conduct merger reviews according to the specific facts and legal precedents of those mergers and said that the broadcast incentive auctions should be expedited.Broadcasters have argued that the FCC should not rush them, and rather get them done right instead of just getting them done.Wheeler's view ...

  • New mobile EAS demonstrated at NAB 2013

    With momentum building for an enhancement to the existing Emergency Alert System, the standardized Mobile Emergency Alert System was demonstrated to TV broadcasters at the annual NAB Show. On display in the NAB’s Mobile TV Pavilion (booth N2638) were new applications, including geo-targeting of broadcast alerts and text-to-speech capabilities to help blind and low-vision consumers receive ...

  • BASSMAXX Delivers Extreme Depth with the New ZV28 Subwoofer

    – If you haven’t experienced the extreme performance of a BASSMAXX loudspeaker system, you’ve been missing out. For the past decade, BASSMAXX has provided intense sound for the most demanding music in the most extreme environments. BASSMAXX now introduces the new ZV28 Profundo Powered Subwoofer. Debuted at the extremely demanding Ultra Music Festival in Miami, where just ...

  • DigitalTech Today makes debut at CineGear Expo 2013

    DigitalTech Today ®, a new company comprised of veteran industry professionals made its official debut at CineGear Expo 2013 in Los Angeles, CA earlier this month. CineGear provided the ideal venue for the LA-based organization to introduce two ‘plug & play" portable monitor/case combos; the first products in a series of practical, sensibly priced equipment solutions aimed at ...

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