Local TV Now

We spend the entire episode with Ed Bark, former TV columnist at the Dallas Morning News, to talk about what the Jay Leno Show might mean not just for NBC stations, but for CBS, ABC, and FOX as well. Plus, we dissect the fall schedule and try and predict what will be successful…probably a futile exercise.

Links:

• NBC’s Fall Preview
• CBS’s Fall Preview
• ABC’s Fall Preview
• FOX’s Fall Preview

Guest:
Ed Bark, TV Critic
Uncle Barky’s Bytes

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In this episode, we talk to the folks at Mobile Local News about their new iPhone application for stations.  Plus, we talk about how NBC’s new fall line-up will affect stations, and discuss NBC’s new affiliate arrangements. Also, is it a new golden age of syndication?  Probably not, but we talk about the changes coming next season.

Links:

• Leno Study: Good News for Late News
• NBC Creates Three Tiers of Affiliate Relationships
• Twentieth Clears ‘The Unit’ in 60% of the U.S.
• Inergize Launches Mobile Local News App

Guests:
Jason Gould, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Inergize Digital
Wade Beavers, CEO, DoApp
Mobile Local News

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In this episode, we talk with Dennis Wharton, Executive Vice-President of Media Relations for the National Association of Broadcasters, about a variety of topics including the disagreement over retransmission fees with the American Cable Association, the upcoming DTV transition, and the future of journalism.  You know, just some light subjects.  Plus, we chat with Todd Juenger who heads up TiVo’s research department.  He’ll tell us about TiVo’s new local ratings product and how it stacks up with Nielsen.

Links:

• First Quarter Results Affirm TV Stations’ Pricing Power Over Small Cable
• Study proves ACA claims to be false
• Advertising Losses Put Squeeze on TV News
• A Creative Approach to Sales
• TiVo to Launch Stop||Watch Local Markets Ratings Service

Guests:
Dennis Wharton, NAB Executive Vice-President of Media Relations

Todd Juenger, Vice President & General Manager, TiVo Audience Research & Measurement
Tivo Stop||Watch

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In this episode we talk to Gary Schwitzer who teaches health reporting at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications and is publisher of HealthNewsReview.org. He tells us about the poor state of TV health journalism and evaluates the coverage of the H1N1 outbreak. Plus, we talk to Bill Burton, Digital Media Executive Vice-President for the ABC O&O’s. He’ll introduce us to the new Live Well HD Network.

Links:

• CBS, Tribune in on LNS in Chicago
• Channel 7 opts out as local TV newsrooms pool forces
• WFLD-TV reduces staff
• ABC O&Os Launch Digital Network

Guests:
Gary Schwitzer, Associate Professor, Univ. of Minnesota & Publisher of HealthNewsReview.org

Bill Burton, ABC O&O’s Digital Media Executive Vice-President
Live Well HD Network Website

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In this episode, we talk to Matt Laubhan and Emily Leonard about Matt’s famous on-air proposal.

Plus, we’ll talk with Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel about coverage of the swine flu in Orlando and the controversy surround WFTV’s news director Twittering about it.  Plus, the BBC is sharing content.  Could it work in this country?  The FCC is fining stations for accidental indecency, and is TiVo a viable alternative to Nielson?  We’ll discuss.

Links:

• Swine flu: WESH puts the blame for scare on WFTV
• Swine flu: WFTV boasts about being first on disputed story
• Supreme Court ruling bans broadcast ‘fleeting expletives’
• BBC offers to share with local media
• TiVo’s way to do ratings outside box

Guests:
Matt Laubhan, KLBK Chief Meteorologist (bio)
Emily Leonard, KAMC Anchor (bio)

• On Air Proposal - Emily and Matt
• Japanese story about the proposal
• Matt & Emily on Ellen

Hal Boedeker, Orlando Sentinel TV Critic

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