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Daily Archives : Sep 17, 2008

New York TV Festival Unveils Independent Pilot Winners

The fourth annual New York Television Festival has announced the winners of its independent pilot competition. Dan Levy and Steve Basilone’s “Below the Law” was named best comedy pilot, while “Hit Factor,” created by Jamie Rosenblatt and Neil Hopkins, took…

NBC Makes Its Way to Gainesville

Gainseville, Fla., finally will get its own NBC affiliate, TVNewsday reports. The affiliate’s station, WNBW-TV, is a new full-power digital-only outlet. The station will be one-third of a triopoly managed by New Age Media, the Web site says. WNBW has…

Couric Asking Candidates Weekly Questions

“The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric” launches its “Presidential Candidates” series tonight. Couric will ask the same questions to Barack Obama and John McCain, with their answers shown back-to-back on the newscast, TVNewser reports. Tonight’s questions are about the…

CNN Hosts Former Secretaries of State

CNN’s upcoming special “The Next President: A World of Challenges” will feature five former U.S. secretaries of state, Multichannel News reports. The secretaries—Madeline K. Albright, James A. Baker III, Warren Christopher, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and Gen. Colin L. Powell—will…

FCC Distributes Bilingual DTV PSAs, Educational Video

The Federal Communications Commission has released several TV PSAs and a long-form educational video to help viewers prepare for the digital television transition. The 30- and 60-second PSAs, produced in both English and Spanish, have been distributed to 1,368 full-power…

WPIX Debuts LATV on N.Y. Cable, Telco Systems

Tribune Broadcasting’s New York CW affiliate CW11/WPIX has made bilingual entertainment network LATV available through cable and telco systems in the tri-state area. Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Verizon and Comcast digital subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut now…

‘60’ Celebrates 40 With Obama, McCain

CBS News’ “60 Minutes” will celebrate its 40th season premiere on Sunday with interviews with Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, says the Hollywood Reporter. Steve Kroft will interview Obama and Scott Pelley will sit down with McCain. The…

DVD Still Go-To Entertainment Medium

DVDs make up 81% of video spending, Multichannel News reports. NPD Group’s Entertainment Trends in America report found 41% of the amount consumers pay for movies and video is spent on DVD movie purchases, Multichannel says. Another 11% goes to…

Moonves Looking to Election for Q4 Dividends

CBS head Leslie Moonves repeatedly tried to calm the nerves of investors when he spoke Wednesday at a conference in New York, Broadcasting & Cable reports. “We’re in a state of transition,” Moonves told the audience. “But having said that,…

GE Shares Taking a Dive Wednesday

General Electric, parent company of NBC Universal, saw its stock stumble on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Shares fell 7%, leaving investors panicking about how its financial arm was faring, the news service said. A GE representative said the company’s triple-A credit…