You can hear the disappointment in the voices of our local newspeople, as they slowly begin to realize that, nah, that's not Chris Brown in a Bentley on Lankershim Blvd., locked in a standoff with police. Damn, you can hear them think. They've invested hours in what might have -- strike that, should...

After this week's back and forth on extending the date for the digital TV transition, I've concluded one thing: There is no activity so simple or complex that Congress can;'t find a way to screw it up. The U.S. House of Representatives did not produce the 2/3 majority needed to fast-track the bill d...

  As Congress moves to approve a delay in the much-anticipated transition to digital television on Feb. 17, I pulled together a story for today looking at what an extra four months of analog transmissions might cost local TV stations -- anywhere from $10,000 to $60,000 a month in extra electric...

Consider this number for a moment: 4,500. That's the number of media credentials issued for Sunday's Super Bowl, according to Tampa Bay and Co., Hillsborough County's version of the convention and visitors bureau. It's the second-largest media cattle call in Super Bowl history, drawing representativ...

It took staunch anti-Communist Dick Nixon to forge a relationship with Communist China and anti-interventionist George W. Bush to engineer the biggest experiment in nation building of this century. So maybe it will take a Democratic president to let the free market handle America's switch to digital...

With classic cable channels like TV Land chasing young viewers with original shows, WFLA-Ch. 8 may have picked a perfect time for its new venture: 8 Prime, a digital channel featuring original WFLA shows, rerun newscasts and series such as Leave it to Beaver, Knight Rider and Adam-12, courtesy of th...

* So I'm sitting in my office at 8 a.m., watching ex-Baywatch star Jeremy Jackson explain how fame turned him into such a pig that he obliterated a multimillion-dollar career as a teen idol on VH1's latest exercise in celebrity degradation, Confessions of a Teen Idol. And I'm smiling. That's the eff...

Broadcasting & Cable’s Mike Malone has word of layoffs at KNSD, WNBC and KSTP. “I’m not going to write up every batch of station layoffs in the next year,” he writes. “It’d be too depressing, and it would just be too damn time consuming, too.” Sad, but ...

When Gannett executives said they would move quickly to name a replacement for retiring WTSP-Ch.   10 general manager Sam Rosenwasser, they weren't kidding. Less than a week after Rosenwasser announced his retirement Monday, the company named Ken Tonning as the new president and general manager...

   On the heels of a year that saw the station's weatherman of nearly 30 years pass away, the start of high-definition news broadcasts, the implementation of a new brand name and a number of high-profile staff departures, Sam Rosenwasser has announced he will retire at the end of 2008 as p...