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It’s Big TV vs. Big Telecom Over Broadcast Spectrum
The sales bounty is coming as the government embarks on an ambitious but untested plan to entice flailing stations to put their spectrum up for auction.
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Robert Redford Keeps ‘Company’ With America
Time and again over the course of his now 50-year career, Redford has returned to that no-man’s land between the real America and how America sees itself. The result is a panoramic portrait of a nation...
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Ebert Memorial: Cusack, Roeper Recall Critic’s Impact
The weather outside was melancholy — sheets of rain and a thick blanket of fog — but inside the Chicago Theater, the mood was altogether exuberant at Thursday evening’s Roger Ebert memorial tribute.
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NBC Salt Lake City Affiliate Yanks ‘Hannibal’ Due to Graphic Content
The Salt Lake City, Utah station that doesn’t bring you “New Normal” or “Saturday Night Live” is also opting out of NBC’s frosh serial killer drama “Hannibal.” KSL-TV cited the level of violence in the...
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KCBS’ Tawdry Sweeps Tease: Baby Epidemic!
Sweeps periods aren't what they used to be, back in the old days when networks loaded up May with big miniseries, and stations resorted to the trashiest of come-ons seeking to entice viewers to watch.
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Time Warner Cable Faces Broadcast Blackout in 14 Markets
LIN Television is looking to extract more coin from Time Warner Cable, telling viewers its local broadcast stations in 14 markets will be pulled from TWC and Bright House Networks if the companies...
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Affiliates Spar With Parents on Distant Hubs
An increasing number of television stations have moved to the practice of controlling operations for multiple stations out of a single hub.
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Time Warner Cable, DirecTV Ask FCC to Restrict Gannett’s Deal for Belo
The American Cable Assn., Time Warner Cable and DirecTV are objecting to a part of Gannett’s proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of Belo Corp.’s broadcast stations, saying that the deal threatens to...
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Film Review: ‘Colossus’
A bizarrely fascinating shaggy dog of a docu-fiction hybrid conceived by tyro writer-director Mark Hendrickson.
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Dish Hit With 53-Station Blackout in Fight With Raycom
In the latest blowup over broadcast TV retransmission fees, Dish Network customers in 36 markets lost access to 53 television stations owned by Raycom Media after the companies failed to reach a new...
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