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The weekly television trade magazine, which began its life in 1982 as Electronic Media, will become online only in June - with a significant reduction in staff. Included in those cuts is Editor Greg Baumann. The magazine's NewsPro supplement will continue as a monthly stand-alone print publication, starting in August. The L.A.-based publication has been hit by the usual advertising troubles, though its situation is compounded by a huge consolidation in the syndication and TV station business. Those had been major advertisers. (TV Week, Variety)
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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.