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Daily Archives : Dec 5, 2014

Weather Channel Shifts Programming Focus to … the Weather?

Weather Channel plans to start channeling its inner nerd, after a phase in which it seemed more interested in anything BUT the weather. David Clark, president of Weather Channel, said in an interview with Variety that the channel is undergoing…

How Netflix May Have Undermined the Sale of Starz

No one seems to want the pay-TV channel Starz. Bloomberg reports that the network, which has about 56 million subscribers and is controlled by John Malone, is considering alternatives after it failed to find a buyer. Starz reached out to…

TV Ad Spending Falls

On the heels of news earlier this week that traditional TV viewing slipped in the third quarter, new figures show that ad spending on TV was down in October. B&C reports that ad spending on TV dropped 9 percent in…

Fox Combines TV Production Units

Fox has reorganized some of its production units, combining two studios involved in television production. Deadline.com reports that the company formed Fox 21 Television Studios out of Fox 21 and Fox TV Studios, two studios focused mainly on cable production….

‘Peter Pan Live’ Was ‘Oddly Awful.’ What NBC Needs to Do to Have These Musical Spectaculars Grow Up

TV Critic Gail Pennington of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch nailed it when she wrote of last night’s “Peter Pan Live” on NBC, “Christopher Walken, whose casting seemed a stroke of genius, was oddly awful as Captain Hook. At points, he…

New TV Project Examines Conservative Talk Radio

The world of conservative talk radio may be coming to television. Warner Bros. has optioned the rights to the book “Talk” by Michael Smerconish, the CNN and SiriusXM host, according to a report by Politico. The studio, Politico says, “plans…