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TVNewsCheck - KCSM Expands Its Omneon Storage Platform
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 17 hours 24 minutes ago
Noncommercial KCSM San Mateo, Calif. (DMA 6), has expanded its Omneon media storage and processing platform with the addition of an Omneon MediaGrid active storage system, an Omneon MediaDeck server, and additional HD/SD channels for an existing Omneon Spectrum playout server.

TVNewsCheck - CBS Launching Turn-Of-Decade Project
TVNewsCheck | 7 days 48 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News is planning an ambitious turn-of-decade look at America's position in the world that's also designed as an opening competitive shot at Diane Sawyer.

TVNewsCheck - NBC's Brian Williams Gets ASU's Cronkite Award
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 9 hours 1 minute ago
PHOENIX (AP) — NBC newsman Brian Williams received the first Walter Cronkite Award for his work in journalism Wednesday since the veteran anchorman's death this summer.

TVNewsCheck - MNT's Latest Incarnation May Be A Winner
TVNewsCheck | 5 days 7 hours 48 minutes ago
Three of the major broadcast networks would like to be doing as well. CBS is down 1 percent, to a 3.2 rating. ABC is down 8 percent, to a 3, and NBC is down 10 percent, to a 2.7, according to Nielsen.

TVNewsCheck - Dow Ends Down 11, Nasdaq Also Drops 11
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 22 hours 45 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted lower Wednesday after an unexpected drop in home construction and disappointing forecasts from technology companies added to worries about the economic recovery.

TVNewsCheck - Dow Slips 14, Nasdaq Finishes Down 11
TVNewsCheck | 2 days 22 hours 48 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market ended a down week with light selling as investors grew uneasy about a rising dollar and spiking demand for the safest government debt.

TVNewsCheck - FCC Floats Cash-For-TV-Spectrum Scheme
TVNewsCheck | 33 days 7 hours 7 minutes ago
FCC broadband czar Blair Levin earlier this month met with leading TV broadcasters in Washington to discuss the nation's urgent need for more spectrum for wireless broadband access to the Internet and the possibility of broadcasters' relinquishing most of their spectrum to help meet that demand.

TVNewsCheck - Aaron Brilbeck Join WHO's Reporting Staff
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 18 hours 45 minutes ago
Local TV-owned NBC affiliate WHO Des Moines, Iowa (DMA 72), announced today that Aaron Brilbeck has joined the station as a weekday evening reporter.

TVNewsCheck - Volkswagen Board Closer To Porsche Merger
TVNewsCheck | 3 days 7 hours 57 minutes ago
FRANKFURT (AP) — German carmaker Volkswagen AG said Friday its supervisory board had approved certain agreement contracts for the planned merger with German sportscar builder Porsche, taking the companies one step closer to completing the deal.

TVNewsCheck - Sewee's 'Andrew Young' Returns For 3rd Season
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 17 hours 52 minutes ago
Tim Voit and Sewee Entertainment announced that the Emmy-winning Andrew Young Presents will return for a third season in 2010.  The series has been renewed for 2010 in over 85 percent of fhe United States, including 35 of the top 40 markets.

TVNewsCheck - Sony Unveils AVCHD Camcorder Line
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 19 hours 27 minutes ago
Sony Electronics is introducing a new family of professional video products that supports the AVCHD format and are designed to bring the benefits of seamless and easy-to-use solid-state production capabilities to professionals and "pro-sumers," according to the company.

TVNewsCheck - Newseum Puts Russert's NBC Office On Display
TVNewsCheck | 3 days 7 hours 20 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Museum visitors in Washington will get the chance to step into "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert's old NBC office, which has been reassembled at the Newseum.

TVNewsCheck - AP: This Week's 90 Layoffs Reach Payroll Goal
TVNewsCheck | 3 days 7 hours 20 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press said Thursday it laid off 90 news employees worldwide this week to reach its goal of cutting annual payroll costs by 10 percent.

TVNewsCheck - Calif. Targets TVs To Reduce Power Use
TVNewsCheck | 4 days 23 hours 15 minutes ago
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The most power-hungry television sets could soon be banned from store shelves in California as state energy regulators on Wednesday consider a first-in-the nation mandate intended to lower electricity demand.