This week, Dennis Swanson, Fox TV’s retired president of station operations, was honored as by the Emma Bowen Foundation as an influential leader, and inducted into the Emma Bowen Foundation Hall of Fame. The Emma Bowen Foundation was founded in 1989 to diversify the media industry by giving talented students of color the opportunity to […]
WJXT Airing ‘Oh Say Can You Sing’ Tonight
WJXT, Graham Media’s independent in Jacksonville, Fla., is airing its annual Oh Say Can You Sing competition tonight at 8. In its fourth year, and after 90 auditions and more than 10,000 online votes, the competition is down to the final four and viewers get to decide the winner. A panel of judges chose […]
WTTG Investigation Is Local TV News At Its Best
When high school graduation rates reached record highs in a Maryland county school district, Delegate Jay Walker, who is the chair of the Prince George’s County Delegation in the Maryland General Assembly, was excited. But amid claims by WTTG, the Fox O&O in Washington, that teachers and counselors were asked to change grades to boost […]
Winning Local TV Branding Image Promos Here
The annual PromaxBDA Station Summit in Las Vegas was last week and the winners of the local awards — gold, silver and bronze — were announced and shown. All this week, I’ll be posting the award-winning spots. If your station won an award and you’d like to share the spot along with some commentary about […]
Syndicator To Local TV: Create Funny Promos
TV stations across the country are invited to submit their in-house promos for Warner Bros. syndicated sitcoms as part of a Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Marketing project, Show Us Your Funny. The project was launched during last year’s PromaxBDA Station Summit, an initiative to source locally-produced on-air promos for use nationally. This year, Warner Bros. […]
WDRB Wins Social By A Nose In Louisville
WDRB, Block Communications’ Fox affiliate in Louisville, Ky., comes out ahead of the market’s other TV stations in a competitive race in social media actions over the last six months according to data from audience insight firm Shareablee. WDRB has just over 3 million actions on social, 26% of the market’s almost 12 million actions. […]
See PromaxBDA Summit Award Winners Here
The annual PromaxBDA Station Summit in Las Vegas was last week and the winners of the local awards —gold, silver and bronze — were announced and shown. All this week, I’ll be posting the award winning spots. If your station won an award and you’d like to share the spot along with some commentary about […]
‘POV’ Documentaries Are Must-See On PBS Tonight
POV is American television’s longest-running independent documentary series and tonight on PBS, it kicks off its 30th season with three documentaries about the Syrian War and the global refugee crisis. Dalya’s Other Country follows a young Syrian girl and her mother who have been displaced by the war at home and are adjusting to their […]
WNYW Goes Inside Rikers Island Tonight
Fox-owned WNYW New York takes viewers inside one of the most infamous prisons in America in a special, half-hour report. Street Soldiers with Lisa Evers airs tonight at 10:30 and can be streamed on FOX5NY.com. Lisa Evers took her current affairs show inside Rikers Island for the first TV town hall at the controversial correctional […]
Augmented Reality Spotted At PromaxBDA Station Summit
Attendees at this year’s ProamxBDA Station Summit at The Mirage in Las Vegas were treated to a stunning visual demonstration as they walked the concourse. Rocket Surgery, Ross Creative Services, FX Group and Mo-Sys turned the area into a Freemont Street Experience with an augmented reality demonstration using Ross Video’s powerful XPression render engine, Ross […]