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Advertising & AgenciesJodi Flicker to senior marketing director, The NBC Agency, Burbank, Calif., from management supervisor, Saatchi & Saatchi. Also, Sharon Merle-Lieberman, marketing services director, from VP, marketing and product development, GetMusic.com.Rafael Ramirez to executive director, Castells & Associados Advertising,…
During the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, French officials made the exportation of their government-supported network, TV5, a national priority, primarily for its news component. French lawmakers released a report extolling the benefits of a “French CNN” to…
After months of complaining on-air about Telepictures and some of his former employees who were involved in the short-lived ABC show “Are You Hot?” shock jock Howard Stern has suddenly grown quiet. The stillness in a onetime war of words…
In Eagle, Colo., a waitress named Barb may be the only person who is truly happy that TV crews have invaded her small town. She works at the Eagle Diner. It’s the restaurant closest to the Kobe Bryant courthouse. Barb…
Spike TV, Game Show Network and other programmers-particularly in cable-are fast-tracking new video game-related programming in attempts to capture the coveted young, affluent male demo that typically plays games at home.Spike has at least four new gamer-related shows in development,…
I have to take issue with TelevisionWeek’s assertions in the editorial “`Queer Eye’ Faces Up to a TV Taboo” (July 28).The issue as I see it is not that the homosexual lifestyle is being opened up to a broader audience…
The selection of the congenial ensemble of hosts who star on the cult hit “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” came about because of an approach to casting akin to bringing a family together. Creator and executive producer David Collins,…
“Fox KASA es su casa” could easily be the slogan for the Albuquerque-Santa Fe, N.M., Fox affiliate, KASA-TV. “We used to be `Welcome Home …’ before CBS started using it,” said VP and general manager Erick Steffens. Now the Raycom…
Monday, July 28, 2003-Sunday, Aug. 3, 2003TV Season Week No. 45NBC and CBS dominated the top 10 programs of the week in adults 18 to 49, with NBC shows taking six spots and CBS the other four. NBC won its…
A cable TV industry-sponsored study filed at the Federal Communications Commission last week contends that News Corp.’s proposed acquisition of DirecTV would increase the incentive and ability of News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch to raise the prices charged to competitors…