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  • ABC Moving This Week From Newseum Al Jazeera Moving In

    studio back to the Washington bureau from the Newseum, and Al Jazeera America will be moving into ABC's old digs there. The contract with the Newseum was up at the end of May, according to those sources, and ABC has a Washington studio at the bureau -- the smaller one not being used by ESPN -- that it can use for guests and the ...

  • Internet Archive Expands Availability of TV News Footage

    The Internet Archive, one of the world's largest public digital libraries, has received $1 million in funding from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that will allow the organization to expand its research library and make hundreds of thousands of U.S. television news programs available.The funding will expand the TV News Search & Borrow service, which now includes 400,000 ...

  • “The Voice” the 1 in 18-49

    NBC's Monday edition of "The Voice" has finished #2 among primetime programs on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-49 for the week of May 13-19, according to "live plus same day" viewing data from Nielsen Media Research, leading NBC to an average 1.7 rating, 5 share in adults 18-49 and 5.5 million viewers overall for the week. In adults 18-34, the Monday ...

  • ESPN laying off hundreds

    Disney's ESPN hasn’t had big layoffs since 2009. But with rivals such as Fox Sports 1 looming, NBC Sports Network and others new on the scene, ESPN has been spending big money lately to on sports rights. They don't come without a cost: ESPN's 12-year deal announced in November to televise the new college football playoff system will be worth about $470 million annually. The ...

  • OKC’s TV news excels in another disaster

    In Oklahoma, particularly in the springtime, dangerous weather is a part of life. And so are the local TV news stations in my home state. Chances are good that the bottom corner of your TV screen come May has the familiar map of the state covered with red, yellow, and green Doppler radar images on loop denoting the severity of the latest thunderstorm, flash flood, or tornado warning in your ...


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Movie Review

Liar Liar

Liar Liar

After a mostly unsuccessful attempt to branch out into black comedy with last summer's "The Cable Guy," Jim Carry returns to what he does best -- pure slapstick antics -- in his new film "Liar Liar." While the humor is absolutely hilarious, the sentiment is overly sappy, and several times that conflict risks sinking this otherwise sturdy vehicle. Carrey plays Fletcher Reede, a habitally fibbing la ... ...

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  • Bounce TV unveils upfront programming slate

    Bounce TV, the nation’s only broadcast network for African Americans, announced its first-ever slate of upfront programming plans, including original new scripted and non-scripted series, series renewals, the return to broadcast television of one of the most-popular game shows in history, an exclusive new college sports rights deal and more. ';Bounce TV’s accelerated ...

  • NBC delivers best May sweep in nine years

    NBC is closing out the traditional 2012-13 primetime TV season running within a tenth of a rating point of second place in adults 18-49, NBC's most competitive position at the end of a season in nine years. With results for the primetime week of May 13-19 bringing the networks within three days of the season's conclusion, NBC is running a tenth of a point behind #2 Fox, a dramatic ...

  • CPJ Concerned by DOJ Pursuit of Fox Journalist

    The Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday it was "alarmed" by reports that the Justice Department was investigating a Fox News reporter as a co-conspirator in the leak of classified info because he sought that information from a source. ...

  • U.S. stocks close higher on Fed QE comments

    +0.17% hitting record highs, after comments from two Federal Reserve officials suggested that the central bank is not close to tapering its bond-buying program. The Dow gained 52.30 points, or 0.3%, to end at 15,387.58 and the S&P 500 gained 2.87 points, or 0.2%, to 1,669.16. The Nasdaq ...

  • New Agama cable TV probe delivers deep analysis high capacity

    Agama Technologies has launched Analyzer OMNIA, a new DVB-C monitoring probe with high density and parallel capacity. The new space- and cost-efficient product range will mean no more blind spots for cable operators, as it provides complete transparency of the delivered quality by monitoring up to 48 multiplexes and all individual services in real-time with complete TS analysis and full TR290 ...

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