Television News

Mad Men: A Great Leaper Forward? Joan, Jag, Don's Return to Advertising (And Other, er, Treks)

William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012

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"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.

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Thoughts on Mike

Dan Rather | Posted 05.22.2012

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If you want to know the key to how television news is supposed to work, I offer you the example of Michael Rosenbaum, for decades a dear friend and colleague who lost his battle with brain cancer this past Thursday.

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Mad Men: Danger! Slippery When Soapy (Especially in Dark Shadows)

William Bradley | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Culture News, 1960s, New York, Matthew Weiner, Nelson Rockefeller, Advertising, Betty Draper, Don Draper, Conrad Hilton, Television News, Mad Men, John Lindsay, Entertainment News

If there's one thing we know for sure about the latest episode of Mad Men, it's this: All this soapiness can mean only one thing. People are about to die.

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Mad Men: Rejecting Advertising, Or, Don Draper Meets Acid Rock, Pop Buddhism, and an Independent Wife

William Bradley | Posted 05.08.2012

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Don't look now, but something important just happened on Mad Men. A major character, someone with real talent in the field, just rejected advertising. Someone who happens to be ad guru Don Draper's bright and shiny new wife.

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Mad Men: To The Moon! (And Crashing Back Again)

William Bradley | Posted 05.01.2012

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After a few weeks of episodes dominated by stagey set pieces driven by forced plotting, entertaining though it was, Mad Men is back to its more customary approach of organic storytelling.

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(video) The Associated Press in Pact with Bambuser for Live Video News

Andy Plesser | Posted 04.05.2012

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LONDON (via SkypeVideo) Bambuser, the fast growing Swedish start-up that allows users to stream live video over mobile devices, has entered into an a...

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Yahoo!-ABC News Tie-up Dominates Online Video News by Wide Margins, comScore

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.13.2012

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For the first time since the collaboration of ABC News and Yahoo! was announced in October, comScore has reported online traffic for the joint effort...

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Politico Planning Big Slate of Web Video Shows (Video)

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Seeing an emerging playing field where Internet delivered video news will eventually be on par with cable, Politico will broadly expand...

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WATCH: WNBC Lets Anchor Go After 32 Years

Posted 03.08.2012

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Local news anchor and WNBC veteran Sue Simmons has been given the axe by television executives after an epic 32 years on air. The New York Post del...

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BBC Global News Chief: "Video is Becoming the Mainstay of our Digital Platforms" (video)

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.05.2012

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LONDON -- As the cost of bandwidth decreases, video is becoming the "mainstay" of the BBC's global news offering via its digital platforms, says...

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The Wall Street Journal's Wendy Bounds: We're Making Video the "Journal Way"

Andy Plesser | Posted 04.07.2012

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Not competing with television news operations, without teleprompters or a slick set, the Wall Street Journal is leveraging the expertise and access o...

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(VIDEO) NBC News Launches Super Politics Portal

Andy Plesser | Posted 02.27.2012

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Gearing up for increased demands for political news in 2012, NBC News has launched a portal for all the network's shows (on both NBC and MSNBC), new...

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Mad Man of the South: Bryan Batt's Big, Easy Style

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 02.17.2012

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AMC's Mad Men brought brought Bryan Batt international fame, but his character left the screen last year. His new book, Big, Easy Style, now tops of Amazon's bestseller list in home decor.

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CNN Managing Editor Mark Whitaker: We Are Reaping the Benefits of Global Expansion

Andy Plesser | Posted 11.24.2011

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CNN's sizable investment in international coverage has paid off with increased television ratings and digital consumption, says Mark Whitaker, EVP and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV.

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New Chapter At 'Nightline'

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 08.21.2011

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NEW YORK — ABC's "Nightline" is creeping into prime time this summer – or maybe it's just getting creepy. The late-night show begins a su...

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WATCH: News Anchor Makes BIG NSFW Mistake (VIDEO)

Posted 08.10.2011

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Holly Pietrzak, a news anchor for WDBJ-News7 in Roanoke, Va., made an unfortunate blooper this week that a few years ago would probably have gone tota...

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Jeff Gralnick Dead: Longtime TV Producer Dies At 72

AP | Posted 07.12.2011

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WESTON, Conn. — Jeff Gralnick, a longtime television producer who helped shape CBS' "60 Minutes" and make "NBC Nightly News" the top-rated show,...

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MSNBC.com Prez: Sunday Was "Very Interesting for Online Video Viewing" (Video)

Andy Plesser | Posted 07.05.2011

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The announcement late Sunday evening by President Obama that Osama bin Laden had been killed created extraordinary traffic for MSNBC.com, pointing to the emerging role of online video viewing in cable-connected homes.

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Countdown, Network and Mad As Hell

Richard Geldard | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Keith Olbermann signed off his show on Friday, he made reference to Network, the powerful 1976 network news film. Even if you haven't seen the film, you know the classic line.

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Networks Go All In On Royal Engagement

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The timing of Britain's royal engagement announcement couldn't have worked out much better for NBC News. The network had announced, ...

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"Off the Map" Is Off the Mark

MP Nunan | Posted 05.25.2011

I've got a litmus test for whether a film or television show focusing on aid-workers, journalists or policy wonks is going to be a worthy representati...

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Fox, Cablevision Reach Deal To End NY Blackout

AP | TOM McELROY | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Fox and Cablevision reached an agreement Saturday that will restore programming to more than 3 million New York-area subscribers who have...

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The Golden Year of Television News

Eric Burns | Posted 05.25.2011

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It seems difficult to believe in the age of all-news cable that television journalism was once informative rather than trivial, noble rather than divisive. But it was---and never more so than in the 1950s.

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ABC Names Top Entertainment Exec

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Paul Lee, who as head of ABC Family invigorated the once-flagging cable channel, has been appointed president of the ABC Entertainmen...

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SUMNER WINS! MTV Moving Forward With Sexy Girl-Band Show

hollywoodreporter.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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MTV has confirmed to THR that a reality show about an aspiring raunchy girl band favored by the boss, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, remains in deve...

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