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Local TV News Has a Picturephone Problem (opens the original)
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At the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City, AT&T introduced a futuristic new technology called the “Picturephone.” It let attendees hear—and see—who was on the other end of a long-distance phone call. The phone company, then the only one serving nearly the entire country, then tried to launch it as a commercial service between public locations in New York, Washington, and Chicago.Unfortunately, a three-minute Picturephone call cost from 16 to 27 bucks at the time. That top rate would be near $300
How Many Places Can A Person Lead At Once? (opens the original)
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(New York City) In a surprising development. The National Football League announced today that it will allow a single head coach to lead two teams simultaneously for the remainder of the current season. The league says it will allow the request from the owners of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Browns to hire one coach to take over the leadership of both Ohio teams. The two franchises, which have consistently underperformed on and off the field for years, are said to be talking with lon
Why Paramount’s Win Is Nexstar’s Loss (opens the original)
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By now, you have heard the news that the much-debated “merger” of Warner Brothers Discovery with Paramount/Skydance is likely to be completed in the next two weeks. That development follows the announcement that a settlement was reached with a group of state Attorneys General who had sued to block the $110 billion deal. (A second lawsuit from the Writers Guild trade union has apparently also been resolved with a promise of contributions to a healthcare fund and a promise to prevent layoffs at CB
On The Wendy McMahon Redemption Tour (opens the original)
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We admit that we spent some time in the past few weeks trying to figure out how to make our way to New York City last week to attend the inaugural edition of “The Status Summit.” Status, the excellent daily newsletter about the news and media business created by Oliver Darcy, put on the event. It was a day-long program of interviews with names talking about the state of business that we chronicle here at TVND.com.Ultimately, we didn’t make the trip.Thanks for reading The Topl
25 Years Later (opens the original)
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Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on America. For those of us of a certain age, it falls into the category of events marked by remembering exactly where you were and what you were doing—when the world seemed to change forever.September 11th, 2001.Some other occasions rise to that level of memory. November 22nd, 1963, in Dallas and then April 4th, 1968, in Memphis. There’s July 20th, 1969, at Tranquility Base and January 28th, 1986, over the Atlantic. The sho
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