Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin has created a new, digital-based undergraduate curriculum as it prepares to move into its new facilities, the Belo Center for New Media.

 Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—More Houstonians are interacting with Houston Chronicle products, including the printed newspaper, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations' March 31, 2012 FAS-FAX report, released Tuesday, May 1. 

WACO radio is one of the few, if not the only radio station in the country with call letters that spell where the station exists.

Texas Business reports: Despite the rapid changes in technology and media, one Waco radio station, which it claims the city of Waco is its namesake, comes up its 90th year of broadcasts this summer.

Texas Business reports:  IRVING—Panini America, the world's largest sports and entertainment collectibles company, reached a trading card agreement with Washington Redskins quarterback and 2011 Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III for the 2012 season. 

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—The Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association (SWAPA) ventured into the public discussion space with a new digital publication called "RANGE," now available in the iTunes App Store for iPad users. 

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—The Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association (SWAPA) ventured into the public discussion space with a new digital publication called "RANGE," now available in the iTunes App Store for iPad users. 

Texas Business reports:  Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez’s retirement ceremony prior to Monday’s Texas Rangers game with the New York Yankees was seen by a record television audience, according to Nielsen Media Research data. 

Texas Business reports:  IRVING—Panini America, the world's largest sports and entertainment collectibles company,  reached a long-term agreement with the National Football League and the NFLPA, granting the company domestic and international rights for up to 18 product releases annually. 

Texas Business reports:  A group of California community colleges and open-education advocates announced a partnership with the Rice University-based open-education platform Connexions and the California-based 20 Million Minds Foundation to enable their new course materials developed with a $20 million federal stimulus grant to be available free online for any educator to use, modify and tailor for their own needs.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—London Broadcasting Company Inc., the owner and operator of Texas-based media properties, completed the acquisition of KTAQ-TV. 

Texas Business reports:  Posting their music videos to YouTube began as a side project for Henry and Robinett, but now it may lead to a viable career option for both.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—eCommerce technology company Cinsay Inc. acquired LaunchFish, the Dallas-based social media marketing firm. 

What used to be clean, white tile floors are now a smooth and deep shade of brown.  The change in color has  occurred gradually over the past 33 years as customers weeve between the high shelves of Golden’s Book Exchange.  Located at the end of a strip mall, Golden’s Book Exchange is one of two used bookstores in Waco, Texas. Started in 1978 by Donna Carroll, Golden’s has managed to survive the intrusion of large retail bookstores and other competitors over the years in a mid-sized market like Waco.

Texas Business reports:  WACO—Dina Dwyer-Owens, chairwoman and chief executive of The Dwyer Group, will appear on CBS's hit reality show "Undercover Boss," on January 22.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—Odyssey Pictures Corporation, a publicly traded media and entertainment company, has acquired the screenplay and feature film rights of the children's literary franchise, "Hank the Cowdog," from Rising Star Studios. 

Recent UNT graduate Joshua Spires received a first-place award in the 2011 U.S. National Kodak Film School Cinematography Competition for his work of The Whale, a film written and directed by another recent UNT graduate, Jaime Chapin.

Texas Business reports:  DENTON—When Joshua Spires agreed to be the cinematographer on The Whale, a film created as an assignment for one of his classes at the University of North Texas, he didn't realize that he would be shooting more than 100 miles away from campus at Caddo Lake in East Texas -- and at sunrise and in darkness.

Texas Business reports:  New research from Rice and Duke challenges conventional wisdom that removal of restrictions would increase piracy levels.

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN and LONDON—Lumesse, a provider of integrated talent management solutions, signed a binding agreement to acquire Edvantage Group.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—The Austin Film Festival (AFF) announced that actress/producer America Ferrera and writer/director Ryan Piers Williams will serve as honorary co-chairs for the 9th Annual Film & Food Gala, benefitting AFF’s Young Filmmakers Program.

Texas Business reports:  COLLEGE STATION—Atlanta’s Radiant  Systems  Inc   bought  Texas Digital Systems Inc., a provider of order confirmation displays and digital signage solutions.

Texas Business reports:  SUGAR LAND—Personalized Media Communications LLC, which develops, owns and licenses a portfolio of electronics patents, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office today has granted it a patent for digital rights management (DRM).

 Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—The Dallas Film Society opened submissions for the 6th annual Dallas International Film Festival.

 Texas Business reports:  Houston—CBS Radio Houston and Yea! Network announced that morning show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning will take over the morning drive on KHMX-FM/Mix 96-5 weekday mornings.

Texas Business reports:  Plano—ViewCast Corporation, a developer of industry-leading solutions for the transformation, management and delivery of digital media over enterprise, broadband, and mobile networks, announced that the University of Oklahoma has selected ViewCast's Niagara Pro II streaming media appliance to enhance its media delivery strategy at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Approximately 600 people from Rice, Texas A&M, Texas State and the University of Texas at Austin watched a recent Austin version of the popular Chinese dating show “If You Are the One," held at the University of Texas. Photo by Zhongyu Yuan

Everything went according to plan until love at first sight turned out to be something else. Chinese students at the University of Texas recently staged an Austin version “If You Are the One,” China’s most popular television program, in which eligible young men and women evaluate each other for dates.

TimeGate's Section 8: Prejudice

Texas Business reports:  Sugar Land’s TimeGate Studios is hiring, according to a notice from the Texas Film Commission.

Texas Business reports:  Austin—“Always Hitting A Nerve: Editorial Cartoons by Ben Sargent," a retrospective exhibit of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning Austin American-Statesman cartoonist's 35-year career, opens April 20 at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

Texas Business reports:  The Texas Film Commission said that the “Victory Motorcycles Photo Shoot” is looking for experienced motorcycle riders. 

Texas Business reports:  Austin’s Twisted Pixel hiring, according to a notice from the Texas Film Commission.

Texas Business reports:  Austin—The name and logo for the 24-hour University of Texas at Austin network were revealed by EPSN and UT executives.

Uncanny Fish Hunt

Texas Business reports:  Online independent gaming community indiePub, sponsored by video game publisher Zoo Entertainment Inc. and South by Southwest (SXSW) announced the finalists of the first ever video game development competition, the Independent Propeller Awards, to be held during SXSW ScreenBurn, the gaming portion of the SXSW Interactive Festival.

Texas Business reports:  Dallas—Half Price Books is surfing the troubled economy like carving an A-Frame wave.

Texas Business reports:  Plano—ViewCast Corporation, a developer of solutions for the transformation, management and delivery of digital media over enterprise, broadband, and mobile networks, announced that the company had a strong fourth quarter of 2010, the third consecutive quarter of substantial year-over-year revenue growth.

Texas Business reports:  Vocal Media, a company that uses the dead-air time in international phone calls to advertise to U.S. immigrant populations, won the Texas round of the Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (TVLIC), the University of Texas business school announced.

Texas Business reports: A Texas Baptist women’s group and the Assemblies of God churches of the Unites States have contracted with a Sugar Land company to provide mass communication.

Texas Business reports:  Brunswick Group LLC, a leading corporate communications partnership opened an office in Dallas.

Texas Business reports: The Dallas Morning News reports 426,747 total Monday-Friday circulation for its print products, including 264,459 paid circulation for its print newspaper. 

Texas Business recommends this story by David Barron of the Houston Chronicle:  Ken Burns has gotten past Barry Bonds. 

Texas Business reports:  An Austin advertising firm won an Air Force contract that could be worth $41 million. 

Texas Business recommends this story by Tim Gardner of USA Today:  You may remember Knight School, Texas Tech's ESPN reality show a few years back. It lasted all of six episodes and was a competition of players trying to earn a walk-on position on the Red Raiders' basketball team under then-coach Bob Knight.

Texas Business recommends this story by Zahira Torres of the El Paso Times: Perhaps no place in America is more talked about and more misunderstood than the southern border with Mexico.

Texas Business notes this story in Radio: The Texas Association of Broadcasters presented its second Lifetime Achievement Award, this time to George Marti.   

Texas Business notes this story by the Orlando Sentinel:  Fired Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach will be near the gridiron again this season. This time, as a game analyst for CBS College Sports Network.

TexasBusiness.com reports:   DISH Network today announced the launch of a local channel in San Angelo in high definition.

TexasBusiness.com notes: A group of Lubbock attorneys this week sued Lubbock television station KCBD and its parent company for libel.

In March, KCBD published to the Internet a report showing a number of defense attorneys, instead of their defendants, had been charged with misdemeanor crimes, reports the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.