Broadcasting & Cable: The Business of Television

Local TV

• Gannett Promotes Tonning, Cantrell-Bickley, Diaz
  WTLV/WJXX Jacksonville GM shifts to WTSP Tampa, WMAZ GM to Jacksonville.
  11/21/2008 11:18:00 AM
• Six Fired For Accessing Pressly Hospital Files
  A routine patient-privacy audit revealed that as many as eight employees had looked at her files
  11/20/2008 2:07:00 PM
• BIM to Drive NBC's 'Locals Only' Sites
  Broadcast Interactive Media to provide technology for relaunched NBC O&O Websites.
  11/20/2008 9:54:00 AM
• Pappas Selling 10 Stations
  Thirteen Pappas stations have been operating under Chapter 11 protection since May.
  11/19/2008 10:20:00 AM
• Young Flat For Q3, Will Count KRON For Q4
  Operating expenses decline as broadcaster continues cost reduction plan.
  11/18/2008 10:24:00 AM
• Local News from the Beltway
  News leaders maintain Washington bureaus even as stations slash costs.
  11/17/2008
• Don't Play Games with the DTV Transition
  Should there be some moratorium on signal-pulling around the transition if retrans negotiations are at an impasse? The answer is yes. It should not be one that is as long as the cable operators seek, yet it must be long enough to make sure that the Super Bowl isn't in play.
  11/17/2008
• Fox, NBC Try ‘AP’ Approach to Local TV
  Fox and NBC, shedding light on their blockbuster local news partnership, envision the venture (working title: Local News Service, or LNS) playing a role similar to the one the AP plays for newspapers.
  11/13/2008 3:51:00 PM
• Connecticut Stations to Test Amber Alert
  Connecticut Association of Broadcasters says test of lost/abducted child location system needed after emergency alert system adjustment.
  11/13/2008 11:03:00 AM
• UPDATE: Fox and NBC Want To Take Joint News Service National
  Fox Television Stations, NBC Local Media join forces on local news service to launch in Philadelphia in January.
  11/13/2008 10:32:00 AM