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Zucker: NBC Close to Final Deal on Vivendi NBC should have a final agreement to buy Universal’s assets from Vivendi by the end of this month and close on the deal by the end of the first quarter of next…
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ABC, Touchstone to Continue Production of ‘8 Simple Rules’ ABC and Touchstone Television have decided to continue to produce sophomore sitcom “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter” after the unexpected death of lead actor John Ritter last week….
New Software Fine-Tunes Product Placement Values
The art of product placement valuation just got a little more precise.iTVX, a New Rochelle, N.Y.-based company that launched a product placement valuation tool more than a year ago, has released a new version of its Instant Access software that…
The Man Will Come Around Again and Again
Last year country music legend Johnny Cash told Rolling Stone magazine, “I’d die if I retired. … Like a shark, got to keep moving.” Last week he did come to the end of the line, passing away from respiratory failure…
NBC Taking TV’s Future by the Reins with on-demand content, delivery
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and NBC Chairman Bob Wright are among the media visionaries delivering a jolting wake-up call to content producers-one which, if unheeded, will likely cost the program makers competitive footing and billions of dollars in revenues…
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As part of what is known in the cable industry as “Diversity Week,” Richard Parsons, chairman and CEO of AOL Time Warner, will be the keynote speaker Sept. 16 at the NAMIC Mentoring Luncheon in New York. The event, at…
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“Whoopi” performed so well on its first outing at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, that NBC repeated the half-hour at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11. “Whoopi’s” second outing turned in another strong performance (about 9.8 million total viewers and a…
‘Sex’ Has Basic Cable Instincts
With the first group syndication sale of “Sex and the City” now out of the way, thanks to Tribune, HBO is on the verge of completing a deal for TBS to start airing runs of “Sex and the City” in…
Don Mischer is in Control
On Emmy night, about two hours into the three-hour show, America will be watching commercials while producer Don Mischer is in a control room adjacent to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Lit by a bank of color monitors, he…
Editorial: A Toast to Kaitz
This week many of the cable industry’s best and brightest will gather, as they have for the past 19 years, in New York to attend a fund-raiser. The occasion will be the 20th Annual Walter Kaitz Foundation dinner. These dinners…