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TV kudos, C-SPAN’s bus and more movies-on-demand
Austin racked up another batch of awards for TV and radio news today.
The Radio-Television News Directors Association announced its 2007 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, given for excellence in electronic journalism. Three Austin TV stations and one Austin radio station picked up prizes.
KVUE was honored for overall excellence, investigative reporting and broadcast-affiliated Web site.
News 8 Austin won for news documentary, sports reporting and writing.
And KEYE picked up the award news series.
KUT-FM, our public radio station, received three awards — for feature reporting, news documentary and use of sound.
The Murrow Awards are among the most prestigious regional awards for broadcast media and have been around since 1971. Austin competes in Region 6, which is Texas and Oklahoma.
To see the complete list of winners, check out the association’s site.
Here comes the bus
C-SPAN is lumbering into Austin this weekend with its brand-new Campaign 2008 Bus. The 45-foot mobile production studio is traveling around the country to promote the cable network’s “Road to the White House” political program, now in its 20th year.
The program — and the bus — travels to major political events, including debates and speeches in early primary states, and makes it a point to visit state capitols as part of an educational component for students and teachers.
The C-SPAN bus will be open to the public Friday, from 9 a.m. until noon, at the LBJ Library & Museum, and Monday, from 8 a.m. until noon, at Huston-Tillotson University.
It will also be parked at Canyon Vista Middle School on Friday from 12:30 to 3 p.m. and Bowie High School on Monday from 1:30 to 4 p.m. — but it will be open to students and teachers only at those school locations.
Guinea pigs for Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable in Austin is test-launching a new movies-on-demand service that will make Warner Bros. movies available to digital cable subscribers on the same day they are released on DVD.
But you can’t linger over them. They’re only accessible for a 24-hour period. And copies cannot be made.
This new service, available today, is called Day-and-Date Movies on Demand. Digital cable customers can find the titles in the “all new” and “movies A-Z” categories on their movies-on-demand menu.
First up? “DeepSea 3D,” “Happy Feet” and “Blood Diamond.” Coming April 3 is “Letters from Iwo Jima.”
Besides Austin, the new service is being tested in Columbus, Ohio.
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