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Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

Broadcasters cede historic role as political pundits

Sep 1, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democratic Convention made it official, writes Scott Collilns in the Los Angeles Times: The broadcast networks have passed the political torch to the cable networks. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC not only delivered “wall to wall coverage” compared to the broadcast nets' paltry hour of nightly programming. Their... More »

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NBC • cable TV • MSNBC • Democratic National Convention • Fox News • CNN • PBS • broadcasting • CBS News • ABC News • Republican National Convention

Google Readies for Spectrum Showdown

As TV goes digital, tech giants, broadcasters vie for unused space

Aug 19, 08 9:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google has launched an aggressive campaign to free up the soon-to-be-emptied "white spaces" of the TV spectrum for Internet devices and broadband access, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The spaces will open up when TV switches entirely to digital in February. Google and other tech giants are hotly... More »

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Google • FCC • airwaves • broadcasting • digital television • unused spectrum

CBS Bounces Packer From NCAA Team

After 34 years of Final Fours, controversial broadcaster is out

Jul 14, 08 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - For the first time in 34 years, Billy Packer won’t be calling the Final Four, the Miami Herald reports. CBS won’t renew the 68-year-old’s year-to-year contract, an exec confirmed, but will replace Packer with veteran announcer Clark Kellogg. Packer has been a controversy magnet, most famously for... More »

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basketball • NCAA basketball • broadcasting • college basketball • Billy Packer

 Thriller Joins Top
 US History Trove 

Jackson hit album added to prestigious aural archives

May 15, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson's Thriller has been added to the prestigious National Recording Registry's archive of the most important recordings in American history, Variety reports. The monster 1982 hit joins 24 other "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" new additions to the collection, including a 1925 recording of the first-ever broadcast to... More »

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archive • record • Library of Congress • broadcasting • Michael Jackson • speech • Thriller • National Recording Registry

Justice Dept. Sues Fox
Over Raunchy
Reality Show

Latest round in indecency battle

Apr 5, 08 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department has stepped in to force Fox to pay up $56,000 in indecency fines levied by the FCC but challenged by the broadcaster, Variety reports. Eight Fox-owned stations are being sued to collect fines for a 2003 episode of "Married by America" that featured men at... More »

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television • reality TV • Department of Justice • FCC • indecency • Fox • broadcasting

 NBC Splits Off Studio for Cable 

Shake-up hands key role to Sci-Fi channel boss

Mar 25, 08 2:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - NBC is splitting its TV production unit into two companies. The units will share the same resources, but will be divided into separate cable and broadcast operations, according to the Hollywood Reporter. NBC's cable channels have been reaping the profits of hits like Battlestar Galactica and Monk, while its broadcast... More »

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television • NBC • cable TV • NBC Universal • Jeff Zucker • Universal Studios • broadcasting • Bonnie Hammer

China May Ban Shots of Tiananmen During Olympics

Fearing protests of Tibet policy, iconic square may go unphotographed

Mar 22, 08 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese government may ban live footage of Tiananmen Square during the coming Summer Olympics in Beijing, the AP reports. Increasingly concerned about protests,  Chinese Olympic officials this week told broadcasting organizers an earlier agreement on live shots had been canceled. If the decision stands, it would be a... More »

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China • NBC • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • broadcasting • Tibetan independence • International Olympic Committee

NPR Prez Abruptly Resigns 

Board turned off
by his new-media
expansion plans

Mar 7, 08 3:15 AM CST
(Newser) - National Public Radio chief executive Ken Stern stepped down yesterday amid increasing static from the board about his ambitious plans for the network, reports the Washington Post. Stern oversaw rapid expansion that boosted revenue from $65 million to $200 million since joining NPR in 1999, and made the organization into... More »

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radio • radio stations • broadcasting • podcasts • new media • NPR

Booze and Beats Don't Mix in Turkey

Bottles cut from music video; critics cite moves toward religious law

Feb 28, 08 6:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Singer Aslizen Yentur thought it was a joke when Turkey's top music channel axed shots of a wine bottle-laden table from her video. It wasn't, and now Turkey's broadcasting watchdog is drafting a bill to make scenes that encourage drinking illegal—supposedly to align with EU norms, the Independent reports.... More »

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Turkey • alcohol • European Union • censorship • wine • pop music • broadcasting • music videos • Aslizen Yentur

HBO Offers Shows Online, Free to Subscribers

Subscribers with PCs will be able to download programming

Jan 21, 08 12:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Time Warner’s category king, HBO, is looking for younger viewers as it launches an Internet service in partnership with several cable operators. HBO on Broadband bows tomorrow in Green Bay and Milwaukee, offering free web access to HBO programming for HBO subscribers. The company will make about 400 hours... More »

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HBO • broadcasting • On Demand

BBC Cuts 1,800 Jobs, Updates
for Digital Age

Funding shortfall, shifting audience
leads to restructuring

Oct 18, 07 5:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The BBC will cut 1,800 of its 18,000 jobs and integrate its TV, radio and Internet news operations to adapt to the digital age, the public broadcaster announced today. As many as 2,500 positions may be lost, but others will be added, the BBC said, to reflect... More »

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television • layoffs • BBC • broadcasting • job cuts • Internet advertising

Winners of
the Iraq War:
The Scots

Independence party finally scored by opposing war

Sep 4, 07 4:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Scotland’s separatists became the first party to wrest control of the Scottish Parliament from Labour last May, it was due to a surge of anti-Iraq-war sentiment as much as pro-independence fervor. But the  Scottish National Party has proved adept at governing, the New Republic notes, making small popular... More »

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Iraq • health care • United Kingdom • Scotland • Scottish National Party • broadcasting • Olympic Games • Iraq war

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