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Hearst Argyle expands digital team

Three new digital hires for Hearst Argyle Television: Terry Casey joins as weather product manager, Chris Steib as entertainment product manager and Judy Stone as the high school sports product manager. More details…

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NFL relents, lets cameras back on sidelines

Penalize us 15 yards at LR because we’re doing a big ol’ “We Told You So” end zone dance. At the NFL league meetings this week, the owners decided to change that hideous decision they made last year kicking out local photogs from the sidelines. You remember - the one they made because they said the sidelines were “too crowded.” LR threw the red flag on that one, and we won the review. (OK, they didn’t change the rule because of us, but we were among the Million Media March on this one.) According to an RTNDA memo: “The new rules will allow up to 10 video crews, five from the local market of each competing team, to cover games from the field. NFL spokesman Greg Aielo told RTNDA that participating stations would be expected to provide pool coverage and that details would be worked out between teams and local stations that cover them…. Throughout the past year, RTNDA has worked with local stations to reverse the ban.” And adds RTNDA President Barbara Cochran: “This change represents a major improvement over last season’s restrictions…. ow local television stations will be in a better position to provide fans with excellent game coverage.” We still believe the locals should devote more resources to covering non-pro sports, but at least this returns some access to the pros.

Adds John in comments: “This is great news. Now more stations will have more good video that can’t go online.”

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Rachel Marsden’s colorful past

Salon has a long take on Fox’s new conserva-babe commentator Rachel Marsden’s somewhat checkered past. Sleepless channel prowlers may know her from “Red Eye,” an overnight talker on Fox News Channel, where she has been known to pipe into the kegger commentary with such pithy punditry as “Maybe [Pakistani cricket fans] should focus less on cricket and a little more on hygiene.” While it seems she is being groomed by the network to be the next Ann Coulter, Salon wonders if her record (and by record, they mean police record) may undermine her credibility.

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