ABC station did not renew Todd Wallace's contract after three years, instead recruiting Todd Connor, an ABC News correspondent.
Wallace's co-anchor, Trisha Shepherd, will stay on.
Television station owners affiliated with NBC agreed to support Comcast Corp.’s purchase of NBC Universal after the
company pledged it won’t shift events such as the Olympics and U.S. football to cable, an executive said.
Fox59 adding weekend-morning and 5 p.m. weekday newscasts to its coverage.
Marco Dominguez turns to WNTS-AM 1590 after the Hispanic daily television news program he launched last year folded.
John Cardenas, news director at WBNS-TV Channel 10 in Columbus, Ohio, will assume his new job at WTHR June 1. He'll take
over for Jim Tellus, who died suddenly in early March.
The Indiana High School Athletic Association has signed a three-year contract with Indianapolis television station WTTV to
broadcast state championship events.
Jim Tellus, the 47-year-old general manager of local NBC affiliate WTHR-TV Channel 13, died suddenly this week.
Daily morning talk show will feature local food, fashion, fitness and fads, but must separate itself from crowded cable market.
The state's eight public television and radio stations, including WFYI in Indianapolis, will not receive their final two
installments of public funding for fiscal 2010 because of Indiana's budget crisis.
The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of “M*A*S*H” to become the most-watched program in television history.
With its 11 p.m. news ratings declining and its network partner, NBC, struggling to plug the 10 p.m. programming slot crucial
to those ratings, WTHR-TV Channel 13 finds itself at a precarious crossroads.
The contest offers businesses a chance to promote something about themselves that might be of interest
to hotel guests in the area.
Red Digital Cinema Technology gives video producers the ability to shoot in high-definition quality without
the expense of film, and local advertisers are taking advantage.
Lloyd Wright, president and CEO of WFYI Public Broadcasting, has been elected to the PBS board of directors. He will serve
a three-year term.
The disappointing debut of “The Jay Leno Show” at 10 p.m. on NBC has hammered ratings for the 11 p.m. newscast
of local affiliate WTHR-TV Channel 13, cutting its average audience by nearly half. But the Indianapolis NBC affiliate says
it will rebound in the fight with its CBS rival because the Leno show has fresh programming year around.
Local TV station WNDY Channel 23 announced Friday that it will broadcast 13 Butler University men’s basketball games this
season, starting with the Bulldogs’ Nov. 21 game at the University of Evansville.
Julie Patterson, a former radio personality who’s been working for WISH-TV, will lead the marathon, which will be a qualifying
event for the Boston Marathon in 2010 and 2011.
Channel 13 eliminates two positions to trim costs, and hopes for a revenue increase in the second half of the year.
Early ratings from the all-important May sweeps suggest WTHR-TV Channel 13’s 15-year reign as king of local television news
is secure for now. But the big test will come this fall when NBC’s weakening prime-time lineup is expected to put the ratings
crown in play.
This economy has been tough on just about everybody.
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