Broadcasting & Cable - July 9, 2012

Amid all the uncertainty in local TV today, a few truisms remain. One is that when the Olympics and a presidential election fall in consecutive quarters, business will be ridiculously healthy. Yet the second half of 2012 will be stronger still for station groups -- thanks to the noisy, nasty, controversial and richly lucrative concept known as the Super PAC.

• Market Eye
• Market Eye: The Battery Is Fully Charged  

• News
• Currency
• How Scary Can Pushing a Linear Channel Be?  
• New MediaVest CEO Confronts 'Challenge' of Branded Content  
• Programming
• USA Elects to Go With a Different Type of 'Animal'  
• Station to Station
• Making 'Great TV,' and Doing It Daily  
• Syndication
• NBCU Campaigns for 'Steve Harvey'  
• Technology
• Pac-12 Huddles on TV Everywhere Game Plan  
• Washington Watch
• Retrans Could Be in GOP Crosshairs  
• Government Speeds Political Postings  

• Opinion
• Editorial
• Editorial: Refreshing Candor  

• People
• Fifth Estater
• TV Business Adds Up for Discovery's New CFO  

• Special Report
• Sun Not Setting on Religious Stations After FCC Order  
• NRB Member Advocates for Christian TV at 'Future of Video' Hearing