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Budgets can reach $1 million an hour for these in-depth productions, now all over the dial If there's one trend that has affected the TV documentary in recent years, it's [...]

More viewers say weather is top reason for watching news When New Orleans is threatened by hurricanes or severe storms blowing in from the Gulf of Mexico, news leader WWL-TV [...]

An assessment of the election performances of Web sites I've spent much of the last several weeks on network news Web sites, tracking election coverage. I know covering this whacked [...]

True price of cost cutting became clear on election night When the networks had to pull back their Florida call for Gore last night and then went for Bush and [...]

A brief blackout of a Rosie O'Donnell comment on George W. Bush's education policy last Tuesday was inadvertent and not an attempt to censor the outspoken liberal talk host, said [...]

A WSB-TV Atlanta photographer was accused by Talapoosa police of provoking a group of black teenagers to burn a Confederate flag during a conflict over the school's use of the [...]

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM says family-owned TV station groups are getting squeezed as the big get bigger. Yet that doesn't quite explain the rich resources WRAL deploys to bring the news to [...]

Success of off-net and first-run shows have syndicators scrambling With the recent success of Baywatch, Xena and Hercules, Hollywood television executives have been rushing to get the next weekly syndicated [...]

WASHINGTON There's a popular bumper sticker that reads 'Kill Your Television.' And broadcasters are seeing it everywhere they turn in Washington these days. From TV ratings to public service announcements [...]

Negotiations have supplanted battles typical of first-round retransmission consent talks If 1993 retransmission consent talks between broadcasters and cable MSOs fueled a war of words, this year's round looks more [...]

Alliances increasingly shape syndication business The rules of the syndication programing game have changed dramatically in the past year and a half. Content may still be king, but strategic alliances [...]

Whether newly minted or evergreen, comedies remain potential goldmine Like old soldiers, good sitcoms never die. They are recycled, run on cable, sent overseas and sold to fans on home [...]

In the latest issue of the Federal Communications Law Journal, a host of scholars, lawyers, activists and others revisit then FCC Chairman Newton Minow's 1961 'Vast Wasteland' speech to the [...]

The drive to establish DTV and reclaim old analog channels has suffered its share of potholes, but nothing like the axle-breakers encountered by a similar government plan to take some [...]

For a few years, I wrote the television year in review for the World Book encyclopedia. It's a funny assignment, because, some-wherein the midst of doing it, you realize you're [...]

I've heard many television executives claim that the days of parents and kids sitting down together in front of the TV are gone forever. As a mom, TV viewer and [...]

Digital: Dawning or dimming? It's been three months since this page--acting out of concern that the transition to digital television would not be all that it might be--suggested that FCC [...]

Local broadcasting is a competitive world, but collaboration just might make children's educational television a success for stations and families. Recently, the Annenberg Public Policy Center released an interview-based report [...]

UPN, WB continue to hoe tough row; despite losses, both say they're in for long haul By the end of 1997, after three years on the air, combined operating losses [...]

Barry Baker, chairman/founder of River City Broadcasting, told Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association conference attendees last week in Orlando, Fla., that his company's planned merger with Sinclair Broadcast Group is [...]

The smoke is beginning to clear on the retransmission-consent/must-carry battlefield, and while many questions remain, it appears clear that the landscape of the Fifth Estate has been changed forever, and [...]