Broadcasting and Cable: 20080121

1. The Joys of Not Working
In TV, it's been said there are two types of people—those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. When it happens ...
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2. Deals
TV W30CF & WDWY-LP/Panama City, Fla. PRICE: $60,000 BUYER: TidalWave Holdings (John Beebe, president) SELLER : Richard C. and Lisa Goetz (Richard Goetz, partner/president) FACILITIES: ...
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3. Capitol Investments
More so than in most markets, ownership plays a huge part in station performance in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Media General invested substantially in WNCN since acquiring ...
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4. Cable's Campaign Push
Cable will significantly increase its share of campaign ad dollar revenues in 2008, analysts and cable ad advocates agree. Another point of agreement: Cable still ...
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5. The Final Chapter?
If you want to know when the writers' strike is going to end, it is starting to look pretty simple. Either it will get settled ...
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6. Where to be and what to watch…
Monday, Jan. 21 Cute siblings tour the country in a groovy '70s bus and play their feel-good tunes for screaming girls. Keith and Danny Partridge ...
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7. Trust, but Verify
We don't frequently agree with Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, for whom almost any deregulation is a bad thing. His monotone sky-is-falling rhetoric has been ...
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8. Fates & Fortunes
Broadcast Shasta Scarberry, promotions manager, WBDT Dayton, has been promoted to creative services director. Journalism Jessica Taff , sports reporter, WXIN Indianapolis, has joined WABC ...
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9. More Than a WISH Came True
Scott Blumenthal likes to tell the story of his early days in the business, as a $65-a-week cameraman at WTWO in Terre Haute, Ind. He ...
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10. Get Ready to Go!
From Jan. 28 to 31 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, TV's faithful will gather to examine programming trends in hopes of ...
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