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Fox will use big names to try boosting ratings

...throughout the year, including some high-profile projects for the summer, which is traditionally a time the broadcast networks have ceded to cable.Among the stars Fox signed up for new shows are ex-Saturday Night Live cast member Andy...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/television/2013-05-14/fox-will-use-big-na
Only the media are surprised

...not been seen before by any broadcast network."Yet, such networks continue...has discovered what the big broadcast networks seem long ago to have forgotten...their programming. The big broadcast networks have been running a small number...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-03-30/only-media-are-surpri
N.Y. appeals court OKs Aereo Internet television service

...cheaper alternative to cable and satellite, though it offers far fewer channels, since it is retransmitting only the broadcast networks freely available to anyone with an antenna. (The exception is Bloomberg TV, the financial news channel that reached...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-04-01/ny-appeals-court-oks-aereo
Comcast to buy GE's stake in NBCUniversal for $16.7 billion, years early

...cents, or 3.6 percent, to $23.39.Comcast had bought a 51 percent stake in the company that owns the NBC broadcast network, the movie studio Universal Pictures and pay TV networks including USA, CNBC, Bravo and SyFy in January 2011...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-02-12/comcast-buy-ges-stake-nbcu
NBC and affiliated networks will show every 2012 Olympic event

...in London working for NBC as a consultant.All told, NBC will offer 5,535 hours of Olympics coverage. The NBC broadcast network itself will have 272 hours, including the flagship prime-time telecast that will amount to a "greatest hits...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/olympics/2012-06-15/nbc-and-affiliated-netwo
Cliffhanger

...season!Sigh.The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that the Federal Communications Commission failed to give broadcast networks Fox and ABC fair warning before finding them in violation of decency rules a few years back. ABC had been fined...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2012-07-02/cliffhanger
Cable TV begins its holiday programming blitz

...Sunday.This is in addition to all the old favorites, from Charlie Brown to Frosty the Snowman, that will fill broadcast network schedules during the next month. An already popular television genre is growing in power, judging by the 22 new...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/television/2012-11-16/cable-tv-begins-its
Blind spot on abortion

...was not featured in either that evening's newscasts or the next morning's "news" shows on the three major broadcast networks.How does that happen? How do all the major news broadcast operations miss the same big story? Osmosis?Well...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2012-06-07/blind-spot-abortion
Analysis: Rising profile of attorney general might pay off for Ga.

...will read the platform five minutes after the ink dried, and he didn't get a primetime speaking slot during the broadcast networks' telecasts, but he was there.He got there be being one of the attorneys general whose challenge to the constitutionality...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-09-03/analysis-rising-profile-
He's that unpopular

...downplay the result, of course ? with only the briefest mention of it on CNN and little mention of it on the broadcast networks.Well, you can see why: ABC's Good Morning America was too busy touting how cool Hillary Clinton is to be...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2012-05-11/hes-unpopular