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Ad spending dropped 0.3 percent to $72.59 billion in the first half of 2007, according to a new report. Several segments of the TV business were weak. Broadcast network TV expenditures fell 3.6 percent to $11.8 billion, spot TV was…
Warner Bros. Television Group plans to produce 23 short-form series for broadband and wireless, the studio announced today. The new projects originate from Warner Bros.’ Studio 2.0, the company’s digital programming arm. The series are produced by Jim Henson Productions,…
National Ratings for Week of Aug. 27-Sept. 2, 2007 Event Outlet Household Rating Men 18-49 Rating Monday, Aug. 27 NFL Football (Cincinnati vs. Atlanta) ESPN 3.5 2.8 Friday, Aug. 31 PGA Golf (Deutsche Bank Championship, 1st Round)…
Angie Kucharski, the No. 2 executive at the CBS-owned stations WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV since June 2005, has been promoted to the newly created position of VP of media strategies for CBS Television Stations. Ms. Kucharski will move to New York…
Bravo has begun casting for its new reality competition program “Step It Up,” which hopes to follow in the footsteps of the network’s Top Chef” and “Project Runway.” The show will bring dancers together from around the country and challenge…
‘Saturday Night Live’ Has a New Rival: P&G
Insurer Tries ‘Serving’ Ads to VOD Audiences Much as It Would on the Web
Discovery Communications’ TLC is moving operations to L.A., staffers at the network were told Monday. New TLC President Angela Shapiro-Mathes originally had planned to be based in L.A. but to operate the network as a bicoastal operation, with some staffers…
Ramon Escobar, a veteran of news and entertainment in the Spanish- and English-language TV world, has left NBC Universal, where he has spent the last 13 years, and joined Sucherman Consulting Group. “Ramon has run local and network newsrooms, he’s…
A phalanx of executives representing broadcast television, major league sports and digital TV makers have launched a campaign to block unlicensed personal portable devices from operating in the unassigned “white spaces” in spectrum otherwise reserved for TV broadcasting. They argue…