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• Sprint Nextel, Tribune Broadcasting and Hearst-Argyle- Owned Television Stations Agree on Framework for Spectrum Relocation

  - 2006-09-13

  RESTON, Va.& CHICAGO & NEW YORK -- Today Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), Tribune Broadcasting and Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. (NYSE:HTV) announced completion of Frequency Relocation Agreements FRA for one each of the broadcasters' group-owned stations as part of the 2 GHz Relocation project. E[acute accent]Under terms of the Federal Communications Commission's FCC...

  Tags: agreement, broadcasting, Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., Tribune Co., TV

• Top station groups.(television broadcasting)

  - 2005-12-19

  How They Rank and Why The Top 25 Station Groups are ranked according to the percentage of the 109.6 million U.S. TV homes they reach, as measured by Nielsen Media Research....

  Tags: ABC Inc., broadcasting, Disney Corp., fax, FCC, Fox, network, PARAMOUNT, Tribune Co., TV, Web, Web site

• FIVE FIRMS REPORT RECORDS IN THIRD QUARTER: Lower newsprint costs, ad gains give lift to 9 of 10 reporting media businesses

  - 1999-10-25

  Of the 10 media companies that have released their third quarter earnings reports, record results were notched by five: Gannett Co. Inc., Knight Ridder, the McClatchy Co., the New York Times Co. and Tribune Co. Lower newsprint prices had a positive effect on all but one company, with declines...

  Tags: advertisement, broadcasting, Dow Jones & Company Inc., FINANCE, Gannett Co. Inc., Knight-Ridder Inc., revenue, Times Co., Tribune Co., TV

• Good DTV news from Chicago.(Tribune Broadcasting testing digital television signals)

  - 1998-08-03

  Tribune Broadcasting has released results of reception tests it conducted in Chicago this past spring, and the findings are encouraging: 92%, or 104 of 112 tested sites, had successful reception of DTV signals broadcast from the 103-story John Hancoc Tribune Broadcasting has released results of reception...

  Tags: broadcasting, digital television, Tribune Co., TV

• Tribune invests in Sony's SX; will test the digital tape format at three stations. (Tribune Broadcasting's television stations; Sony Corp.'s Betacam SX)

  - 1997-11-03

  Will test the digital tape format at three stations Tribune Broadcasting has decided to test Sony's Betacam SX component digital tape format at its stations in New York, Chicago and Atlanta, with the hope of eventually implementing SX gear thr ...

  Tags: broadcasting, Sony Corp., Tribune Co., TV

• Leading Tribune into the digital age. (Ira Harvey Goldstone, Tribune Broadcasting)(Fifth Estater)(Column)

  - 1997-07-21

  In television, it usually pays to start early. Ira Goldstone, Tribune Broadcasting's vice president of engineering and technology, got his start at age 12, working in the closed-circuit television facility operated by his junior high school ...

  Tags: broadcasting, engineering, Tribune Co., TV

• Dielectric has signed an agreement with Tribune Broadcasting. (company to supply antennas, transmission line, components for television stations)(Brief Article)

  - 1996-10-07

  Dielectric has signed an agreement with Tribune Broadcasting to provide transmission gear for the broadcaster's stations. Under the contract, Tribune will purchase antennas, transmission line and RF components for DTV and NTSC for its stations in N Dielectric has signed an agreement with Tribune...

  Tags: agreement, broadcasting, digital television, Tribune Co., TV

• The times they are a changin'. (National Association of Television Program Executives convention)

  - 1996-01-29

  The end of fin-syn and PTAR and restructuring of the broadcasting industry are leading to new alliances between buyers and sellers; so far, the buyers are ahead The action on the floor of this year's NATPE convention reflected fundamental changes in the broadcasting industry...

  Tags: affiliate, alliance, broadcasting, CBS Corp., clearance, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, Tribune Co., TV

• On the leading edge of television's new wave: Tribune's many-faceted Dennis FitzSimons. (Tribune Broadcasting)(Cover Story)(Interview)

  - 1996-01-22

  Tribune Broadcasting is making its move. Always a stalwart of American broadcasting, the Chicago-based group is simultaneously the leading independent and the affiliate backbone to--and part owner of--the WB Network. It is, arguably, the nation's lar Tribune Broadcasting is making its move. Always a stalwart of...

  Tags: broadcasting, Tribune Co., TV

• Qwest for television broadcasting gold: Quincy Jones forms station group with entertainment heavyweights - Qwest Broadcasting Co

  - 1995-02-01

  Quincy Jones has joined former NFL great Willie Davis and television giants Geraldo Rivera and Don Cornelius to form a minority-controlled broadcasting company.

  Tags: broadcasting, entertainment, Quincy Jones, Qwest Communications Inc., TV