Microsoft just took the wraps off version 2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile, the whiz-bang search app for cell phones. In case you're unfamiliar with it, WLS taps Windows Live Local to provide area-specific searches. Just choose your location (by providing a city name, ZIP code, etc.), then access business listings,...
When a fire raged recently at the LaSalle Bank building in Chicago, ABC-owned-and-operated station WLS extended its evening newscast to cover the breaking story. As 8 p.m. approached, the station faced a tough choice: Monday Night Football was abou When a fire raged recently...
Byline: JEREMY MULLMAN Seldom have so many local ad dollars ridden on news features like ``Great Sex for Moms'' and ``Leaner for Life.'' Fresh off its November ratings coup, WMAQ-TV/Channel 5 is trailing in its attempt to again unseat the market ...
Chicago's ABC O&O station WLS recently invested in a host of new Canon lenses for production. The lenses included four Digi Super XJ25x lenses, a new HDTV lens ideal for companies planning to upconvert to HDTV without straining their budget. C Chicago's ABC...
Radio stations, networks plan coverage of Democratic convention For veteran WLSAM Chicago afternoon news anchor Jim Johnson, this week's Democratic convention at United Center may bring back memories of the 1968 convention, but he expects the si Radio stations, networks plan coverage of...
Byline: JEREMY MULLMAN Even for the broadcast industry-which is no stranger to excessive behavior-the buzzing and fawning over Joe Ahern's return to Chicago to run CBS' WBBM-TV/Channel 2 has been over the top. ``Here's a chance to get the Michae Byline:...
WLS-TV Chicago has purchased a 70-seat Avid Media Browse system to be used alongside Avid's iNews newsroom system. The station will receive the 2.2 version of Media Browse for use on 36 seats licensed for browse only and 34 seats licensed ... WLS-TV Chicago...
High Accuracy, Cost Effective Location Solution Improves Emergency Response and Location-Based Services LBS Applications SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Polaris Wireless, the leader in high accuracy, software-based location systems, today announced that Union Telephone, Cellular One of N.E. Arizona, and SimmetryPCS have deployed Polaris Wireless' Wireless...
The Indoor Air Quality Association IAQAinstalled newly elected directors and officers at its 11th Annual Meeting &Exposition held last week in Tampa, Florida. Each year, IAQA members elect three directors to serve three-year terms ofservice on the association's board. Newly elected directors include Mr.Kent Rawhouser, WLS, CMRS...
FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS, OPRAH WINFREY repeatedly told her team that production of her daily talk show was only the beginning. "This is the foundation of greater things to come," she would tell her managers as she developed a dizzying array of partnerships and spin-offs--a venture...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Sarah Schaerr Norton of Accuracy in Media, +1-202-364-4401 ext. 107, Sarah.Schaerr@aim.org New site aims to level the field between liberals andconservatives WASHINGTON, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Accuracy in Mediaannounced today that it has launched a new website called WhatLiberals Say. The new site, accessible at...
CALGARY and MERRILLVILLE, IN, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., ("Guest-Tek") (TSX:GTK) has announced that it now provides high speed internet access ("HSIA") and support to over 100 White Lodging Services properties. In addition to this milestone, White Lodging Services ("WLS") plans to have Guest-Tek...
BROADCASTING Gena Ashe to VP/deputy general counsel, PBS, from senior associate general counsel, Darden Restaurants. Mark Effron to president/chief operating officer, TitanTV Media, from senior VP. Frank Friedman to senior VP/head of local broadcast, Optimedia ...
Experts from One of the Most Experienced Training and Consulting Companies Share Time-Tested 'Tips from the Trenches' DENVER -- Systemation, a practical, results-driven business analysis and project management training and consulting company, today published key insights from its training experts that address common challenges confronting...
Third-Quarter 2007 Revenues of $189 Million; Year-to-Date 2007 Revenues of $639 Million; Third-Quarter 2007 Net Income of $66 Million; U.S. GAAP EPS of $0.41 TORONTO -- Biovail Corporation (NYSE:BVF)(TSX:BVF) today announced financial results for the three-month and nine-month periods ending September...
Event Kicks-off November's National Runaway Prevention Month CHICAGO -- Award winning musician and actor Chris "Ludacris" Bridges and his charitable foundation, The Ludacris Foundation, were presented with the 2007 "Spirit of Youth" award tonight at the National Runaway Switchboard's NRS annual Spirit of Youth Benefit...
Last Night's TV HINDENBURG CHANNEL 4 NIGELLA EXPRESS BBC2 WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE CELEBRITY ITV1 It is more than a quarter of a century since I was a schoolboy, yet there are two...
Perhaps the oldest writers' axiom is, "write what you know." And Steven Levitan is a living example that old axioms still work. He's the co-creator of Fox newcomer Back to You --a newsroom comedy with Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton as co-anchors. But...
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Chicago stations do a good job of keeping viewers informed but are less successful at standing out from one another, a new study finds. And all could use more diversity in newscast sound bites. Those and other findings were revealed in the 91-page study...
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