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  • ABC rides NBA playoffs to another prime time win

    NBC at least made it somewhat competitive with its final Voice episode, but the NBA playoffs still beat it in the Nielsen contest by a wide margin. Univision was 3rd, just edging Fox, and CBS brought up the ...

  • Mount Wilson snags second Monterey radio station

    $300K KNRY-AM Monterey-Salinas CA (Monterey CA) from IHR Educational Broadcasting (Douglas M. Sherman) to Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters Inc. (Saul Levine). $10K escrow, $190K cash at closing, $100K consulting agreement. Combo with KYZZ-FM Salinas CA, coming in separate deal. [FCC file date ...

  • Sagamore Hill flips stations in two DMAs to Frontier

    $20.5M KGWN-TV, KSTF-DT & K19FX-D Cheyenne WY-Scottsbluff NE (Cheyenne WY, Scottsbluff NE, Laramie WY); and KGNS-TV Laredo TX from Sagamore Hill Broadcasting LLC (Louis Wall) to Yellowstone Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Frontier Radio Management Inc. (Jason Wolff). $1.025M escrow, balance in cash at closing. [FCC file date ...

  • Demise of West Palm LPTV stands

    WALO-LP in West Palm Beach had to vacate Channel 53, and was authorized to begin digital operation on Channel 44. However, it failed to get on the air on Channel 44 within 12 months, had its license rescinded according to the rules and has failed to get it back on appeal. According to the rules, any station that is off air for a full year is to be shut down. The station did go back on the air ...

  • Summer travel plans up from 2012

    A Harris Poll survey finds that the sluggish economy is still feeding into sluggish vacation plans. However, despite the fact that about a third of all Americans say the economy will keep them at home, more are hitting the road and fewer are staying home than last year. 64% are planning to travel this summer, up from 60% in 2012, and 43% say the state of the economy does not play any role ...


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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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  • MMTC Says FCC Fees Can Be Barrier to Broadcast Diversity

    The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council has told the FCC that if it wants to promote diversity, one way would be waiving or deferring regulatory and application fees, which it sees as yet another barrier to minority entry into the broadcast market. In comments ...

  • ConnecTV to Study Second-Screen Social TV Viewing Behavior

    ConnecTV is teaming with consumer technology and media research firm SmithGeiger on a study that will examine second screen social TV viewing behavior. The study, which will provide reports to media companies, TV networks, advertisers and ad agencies, has a stated goal of validating the purported premium value of second screen companion ads that are synchronized with broadcast ads, as well ...

  • Apple TV Tunes in HBO GO WatchESPN

    Apple announced Wednesday that the HBO GO and WatchESPN authenticated TV Everywhere applications are now offered directly on Apple TV, the company's broadband-connected video streaming device. The HBO GO app offers full seasons of original series as well as movies and behind-the-scenes extras, while WatchESPN delivers live streams of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and ESPN Buzzer ...

  • PromaxBDA Programmers Capitalizing on Summer to Retain Viewers

    Los Angeles -- The changing landscape of television has forced network executives to find innovative ways to reach audiences, something the panelists at the Media Leaders Summit session at the 2013 PromaxBDA Conference at the JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE Tuesday regarded as an opportunity rather than an obstacle. The panel, which included Kevin Beggs, president of Lionsgate Television ...

  • Growing Gannett Eyeing Homegrown Programming

    Gannett's planned acquisition of Belo further solidifies a strategy that has been in the works for some time -- the group, which will grow from 23 to 43 TV stations when the deal closes, is developing homegrown programming that it is considering for multiple dayparts. Gannett Broadcasting president Dave Lougee says the group has been doing research and development on new concepts for ...

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