Broken News

Times Warner's struggling news channel lashes out at defectors

"...ambitious young reporter who left her job covering business news at News 8 Austin last month. In fact, chances..."

July 14, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

News 8 at 5

Can Austin's little news station that could survive the grim reapers at Time Warner?

"...Sitting in his office, shortly after first coffee, News 8 Austin news director Kevin Benz is attempting to..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

The Cable Channel Shell-Game Shuffle

The FCC is investigating Time Warner; African-American weekday news anchors are few and far between

"...The Federal Communications Commission is investigating Time Warner Cable and other cable systems around the country over the..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

When Cable Attacks!

The Good, the Bad, and the Struggling: Where Cable TV is Going and How It'sChanged

"...Once upon a time, having cable meant gaining access to a whole new world of..."

July 14, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Playback: DaveTV's Cable Access Comeback

DaveTV returns to cable access!

"...honorable Dave Prewitt occupied the humble domain of local cable access from 1990 to 2007 with two after-midnight music..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Small Screen, Big News

Time Warner threatened, plus Mike Judge and more

"...You've seen plenty of big-screen news in Film Flam and Trailer Park of late, but..."

May 23, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

News Ticker: September 25

All the news that's fit to blog

"...chatty, Todd Staples waters things down, and Larry the Cable Guy takes up punditry. Fetor is on the News..."

Sept. 25, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Longhorn Network Gets Cable Access

Verizon FiOS service to carry fledgling network

"...the Longhorn Network is still working to find a cable carrier. Well, this morning they announced their largest carrier..."

Aug. 25, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW News

"...morning and had your television tuned to CNN's Headline News channel, you no doubt noticed they were taking a..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

News Ticker: October 25

All the news that's fit to blog

"...Abbott riles up the base. Namecalling is on the News Ticker..."

Oct. 25, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

City Gets Into the News Biz

'CityView' debuts on Channel 6

"...Channel 6, your one-stop cable destination for City Council meetings, boards and commissions ephemera,..."

Jan. 11, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Small Screen, Big News

From TLC to 'Doctor Who,' now we're sure we've heard it all

"...We're used to pretty wildly varying news coming across our desks, but this fearsome foursome has..."

Oct. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Fox News: How Typical

Because they wouldn't want to go anywhere near the LBJ museum

"...The other cable news networks are all set up in some major..."

March 4, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Film News

Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman on the ropes at Lord's Gym

"...in 1993. Hibberd says the event has become a cable-news memory for most, but his script aims to tell..."

July 4, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

KXAN Vs. Cable

Williamson Co. cable system replaces KXAN on dial with Temple-based station

"...dispute between NBC affiliate KXAN and a Williamson Co. cable system escalated last week, when Suddenlink replaced KXAN on..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Kevin Brass

'Real' News Is the News They Want Told

"...Access Community Television (“Naked City,” “Improper Appearances,” March 24) [News]. First, the “news” about the DA indictment of the..."

March 29, 2006 Postmarks

Fall X: The Good News

Standouts From the Fall 2010 Fashion Front

"...1) Bulky cable knits rise again. When Isaac Mizrahi was presenting collections..."

Sept. 28, 2010 Design Post by Anne Harris

ATX Film News: What Kat Candler Did Next

Fear the Walking Dead returns, The Son sets, and more

"...on June 2. The show, which has become a cable smash in its own right, moved here in 2017..."

May 10, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

He Who Must Not Be Named Returns to TV News

Ron (mumble mumble) is back at the anchor desk

"...station warned viewers engrossed in Survivor that a "new news team" will appear on March 8, and it is..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Worried About Cable Access

"...conflict with the present rules established by the Austin Cable Commission which state that the producer, not the city,..."

Aug. 17, 2004 Postmarks

Media Watch: KXAN Bucks the Wave: Covers the News

KXAN bucks the wave – covers the news

"...list of once-common features has disappeared from local TV news, staples of the business that faded into the oblivion..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Media Watch: Local News

The Statesman and its suitors, and the TV shuffle

"...sale in August, along with 28 of its other newspapers. A family-owned operation saddled with heavy debt, Atlanta-based Cox..."

Feb. 20, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

A Smoky, Sexy Take on TV News

BBC America's The Hour premieres tonight

"...the rocky transition into the new medium of televised news programming. Romola Garai (a hard-working actress whose never quite..."

Aug. 17, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

ATX Film News

Bill Hicks, vampires, and slime

"...with first-time director Scott Barber to chronicle how a cable system called Qube out of Columbus, Ohio, became the..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

News/Print

Moving images and archbishops on death row

"...Farabee, on Dr. Detine Bowers' Common Ground (Time Warner cable access channels 10 and 16) during the past month...."

April 2, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

A Hunger for Hard News

Murray on 60 Minutes

"...Barring any late-breaking news on the Clinton debacle, 60 Minutes is scheduled to..."

Jan. 15, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Election News

"...Women Voters): Thursday, April 17, 6-9pm (live broadcast on cable Channel 6); City Hall Council Chambers, 301 W. Second...."

April 18, 2008 News Feature

Film News

The stars are out already – just look around; plus Guadalupe Arts Center groups regroup and more industry news you won't find anywhere else

"...Find it on Channel 15 on your Time Warner Cable dial, and Channel 24 on Grande Communications...."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

News/Print

Look into my eye. Look into my other eye. Rub noses!

"...sustain the excellent Texas Nafas poetry program on Austin Cable Access Channel 16 (Saturdays, 10pm), as well as DVD..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Money Monster

George Clooney plays a cable-TV guru taken hostage by an irate viewer

"...pretty vaguely yet righteously pissed off: at Wall Street, cable news, the one-percent, lax government regulation, what have you...."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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