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Tracking Ellen’s Career Highlights

1977 After one semester at the University of New Orleans, where she was majoring in communications, Ellen DeGeneres drops out. She gets a string of “regular” jobs (clerk, retail salesperson, hostess and house painter) before realizing she wants to be…

Revision3 Revs Up Production

Online TV Network Aims to Triple Its Delivery of Video Views by Year’s End

Gralnick Observes 50 Years in News

There was no party this month to mark Jeff Gralnick’s 50th anniversary in the television news business. Instead, TelevisionWeek National Editor Michele Greppi treated Mr. Gralnick to lunch and took notes as they talked about how he got into the…

International Perspective: Dubbing Comes of Age With Latest Technology

I can remember watching Johnny Carson interviewing Michael Landon, who was talking about how silly he looked speaking Japanese in one of the early dubbed episodes of “Bonanza.” Dubbed television was a novelty back then. Today, however, nothing could be…

Documentaries Hot Items at Sundance

Cable, Broadcast TV Buyers Busy at Indie Film Festival

Networks Revisit Upfront, Pilot Plans

But Media Buyers Still Want Peek at Shows

Pilot Week Pays Off at Travel

Cable Channel Gains Valuable Viewer Feedback From Trial Run

Fox Girds for Record Bowl

Strong Competitors, ‘Idol’ Talent Seen Boosting Interest

Home Depot Makes ‘Splash’ on HGTV

Scripps, Long Resistant to Integration, Signs Series Sponsor

Fire Darkens Colo. Stations

KREX, KFQX Set to Restore Signals in Wake of Blaze