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View Post Sports | TV Biz Former Spokane Anchor Makes Super Bowl Ad Appearance By Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel on Feb. 4, 2018 - 10:21 AM He plays a news anchor.
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk Third Time’s a Charm: KMIZ Struggles with Super Bowl Text Update By Kevin Eck on Feb. 5, 2013 - 2:12 PM KMIZ, the ABC affiliate for Columbia, MO, needed three chances to correctly update its viewers on the final score for Sunday’s Super Bowl. The first text got the San Francisco 49ers name wrong, calling them the 46ers. The se ...
ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk WRTV Opening Street-Level Studio in Downtown Indianapolis By Andrew Gauthier on May. 10, 2012 - 2:39 PM WRTV now has what no other station in Indianapolis has: a permanent street-level studio. The ABC-affiliate announced today plans to open a permanent, glass-enclosed studio in downtown Indianapolis. The space, located on Monument C ...
NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz The Story Behind KNOP’s Will Ferrell Super Bowl Ad By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 7, 2012 - 6:39 PM KNOP general manager Lewys Carlini had one thought when he first watched the now-famous Will Ferrell Super Bowl ad for Old Milwaukee: why’d it cut off? “I had to watch it two or three times to make sure there wasn̵ ...
NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz KNOP Airs Will Ferrell Super Bowl Commercial, GM Calls it ‘Odd’ By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 7, 2012 - 11:50 AM KNOP in North Platte, Nebraska has a unique distinction: it was the only station in the country to air an Old Milwaukee commercial featuring Will Ferrell during Sunday’s Super Bowl. After airing on KNOP, in the second-smalle ...
ShopTalk | Top 10 | TV Biz Sunbeam Ends DirecTV Blackout, Saves Super Bowl By Andrew Gauthier on Jan. 27, 2012 - 10:56 AM Sunbeam Television, which owns WSVN in Miami and WHDH in Boston, reached a new retrans agreement with DirecTV on Thursday. The deal ends a weeks-long blackout and guarantees that DirecTV subscribers in Boston will be able to watch ...
NBC Affiliates | Top 10 | TV Biz Super Bowl Blackout Possible in New England By Andrew Gauthier on Jan. 24, 2012 - 11:54 AM As the New England Patriots prepare for the Super Bowl, DirecTV subscribers in Boston are fretting over a potential blackout of the game. Sunbeam Television, which owns Boston NBC-affiliate WHDH, is currently locked in a retrans b ...
TV Biz Sinclair’s First Quarter Revenue up 5.4% By Andrew Gauthier on May. 4, 2011 - 11:47 AM “We continue to see growth in our core business, both in the first quarter and in our second quarter expectations,” announced Sinclair president and CEO David Smith today. Sinclair, which operates 57 stations covering ...
TV Biz Media General Reports Slight Dip in First Quarter By Andrew Gauthier on Apr. 20, 2011 - 10:12 AM Media General, which operates 18 stations focused mainly in southeastern markets, announced today that first quarter TV revenue had dropped 2.6% compared to the same period last year. In its earnings report, Media General pointed ...