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Phil Lombardo, CEO of Citadel Communications, emerged last week as the leading candidate to become joint board chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters. But NAB board sources warned that a formal decision could be delayed while association officials wrestle…
Last year “Frasier” surpassed “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to become the series with the most Emmy wins of all time. This year “Frasier” has five chances to expand its lead, but the Academy Awards telecast is close behind and…
Liberty Media’s Starz Encore Group unit will likely see its profits fall, due to programming costs that could surge up to $225 million in 2004, Liberty warned last week. Starz blamed the rising programming costs on the expected box office…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…