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TVNewsCheck - FCC To Craft 'Net Neutrality' Rules
TVNewsCheck | 32 days 20 hours 43 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain kinds of Internet traffic.

TVNewsCheck - Ad Market Isn't As Scary As You May Think
TVNewsCheck | 25 days 4 hours 16 minutes ago
This is the season for ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. It's gotten pretty scary this week, particularly if you are in the media industry. Take the discussions about repurposing the spectrum for OTA broadcasting to meet consumer demand for wireless Internet. Then there are the debates over the Internet's ability to supplant subscription video with "over the top" applications and the continuing talk of the demise of advertising support for linear television.    

TVNewsCheck - Cutbacks Now Could Hurt Stations Later
TVNewsCheck | 40 days 21 hours 27 minutes ago
Cutbacks that television stations are making in response to the recession could have long-term effects on the business, especially when it comes to available equipment and relationships with suppliers, a panel of industry executives said Wednesday.

TVNewsCheck - TV's Latest High-Tech Tool: HD Weather
TVNewsCheck | 32 days 23 hours 10 minutes ago
It's almost a given that any new weather graphics system purchased by a TV station will be HD or at least HD ready, even though the station may be many months or years from upgrading its newscast to HD.

TVNewsCheck - Media General 3Q TV Revenue Falls 20%
TVNewsCheck | 34 days 2 hours 53 minutes ago
Media General Inc. today reported broadcast TV revenues of $63.4 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 27, a decrease of 20% from the year-earlier quarter.

TVNewsCheck - CEA Says Consumer Confidence Rose In October
TVNewsCheck | 27 days 22 hours 7 minutes ago
Consumer confidence in the overall economy improved, while confidence in technology and consumer electronics fell slightly in October, according to the latest figures from the Consumer Electronics Association and CNET.

TVNewsCheck - News Orgs Plagues By False Starts
TVNewsCheck | 29 days 4 hours 44 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — A balloon racing across the Colorado sky without a 6-year-old boy inside. A major lobbyist not changing its position on climate change. A shootout with terrorists on the Potomac River that never happened.

TVNewsCheck - WNUV Installs Rohde & Schwarz Mobile DTV Gear
TVNewsCheck | 32 days 20 hours 43 minutes ago
Rohde & Schwarz today announced the successful installation of what it called the industry's first fully-compliant ATSC mobile DTV multiplexer and exciter for the new A/153 mobile DTV standard at Sinclair Broadcast Group's WNUV Baltimore.

TVNewsCheck - CityVoter Promotes 'Biggest Loser' Guides
TVNewsCheck | 33 days 2 minutes ago
NBC's hit reality series The Biggest Loser has partnered with Cambridge, Mass.-based CityVoter to help promote season 8 of the show and give fans a glimpse into the new healthy lifestyles and hometowns of this season's contestants.

TVNewsCheck - White Sox' Guillen Joins Fox's World Series Crew
TVNewsCheck | 32 days 5 hours 14 minutes ago
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen will join Fox Sports as an analyst for the World Series. He will have pregame and postgame duties.

TVNewsCheck - Twentieth Syndicates 'Sunny' To Comedy Central
TVNewsCheck | 34 days 3 hours 36 minutes ago
First-run seasons of Sunny will continue to air on FX. In addition to its current fifth season that runs through Nov. 5, the network has ordered seasons six and seven which will air in 2010 and 2011, respectively. FX Productions will have produced 84 episodes though season seven.

TVNewsCheck - Leading Economic Indicators Up Again
TVNewsCheck | 33 days 42 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — A private forecast of economic activity rose for the sixth straight month in September, a sign the economy will keep growing next year.

TVNewsCheck - TV Comedy Legend Soupy Sales Dies
TVNewsCheck | 32 days 5 hours 14 minutes ago
DETROIT (AP) — Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.