By Katy Bachman
Four TV stations in the nation’s largest TV market announced Monday (June have formed a local news service to pool video newsgathering resources, a practice that is fast becoming standard operating procedure in major markets. The local news service will launch June 22.
In New York, the four stations that agreed to form [...]

By STUART ELLIOTT
 

IN another sign of how hard television executives are working to attract advertising in tough times, two cable channels plan to significantly expand an initiative that pairs commercials with relevant scenes in the shows they interrupt.
At a presentation on Wednesday, Turner Entertainment Networks — part of the Turner Broadcasting System unit of Time [...]

Former CNN anchor takes positive tack in trying times
By Paige Albiniak
Former CNN news anchor Daryn Kagan is launching Good News with Daryn Kagan, a syndicated news service featuring Kagan’s own brand of reporting.
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Distributed by Seewe Entertainment, Good News with Daryn Kagan offers TV stations five two-minute video packages each week of positive, inspirational stories that [...]

Strategy could help him make an end run around traditional D.C. gatekeepers
By Karen Watson, Nielsen
One hundred days is scarcely enough time to draw any firm conclusions about a new president’s capabilities. Even so, Barack Obama has garnered considerable respect for his media skills.
Pundits have dubbed him the “new media president;” while some of the most [...]

Google plans to launch a premium content section of YouTube, which will feature its growing collection of full-length films and TV shows while still preserving its user-generated content side. Now, maybe YouTube can make some money.
By Jacqui Cheng

Google has announced that it will partner with major movie studios to stream a number of full-length films [...]

By Kevin Downey
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Great steps have been made in recent years toward improving how media usage is measured, but a massive new study suggests that much of the data media buyers and sellers rely on is still highly flawed or just plain wrong in the case of data based on people’s recall of their media usage, as [...]

By Robert Bianco
You’d think people on TV would have a better idea of how it works.
Yet clearly they don’t, to judge from the insane TV parade staged by CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer. In his search for justice, attention or both, Cramer inserted himself into a comedy battle between Jon Stewart and CNBC’s Rick [...]

An open letter to octuplet-bearing, publicity-seeking mother
Laura, College Candy

Dear Nadya Suleman,
Ever since you gave birth to octuplets last week, the media just can’t stop talking about you. Which seems to suit you just fine; we heard that you’ve hired an agent to help you break into TV. Splendid!
It’s good to see a mother who just [...]