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After last February’s meeting between advertisers and members of the Syndicated Network Television Association-a gathering syndicators deemed triumphant in raising the profile of syndicated shows-distribution executives are waiting to see if dividends will roll in for the upfronts.Early projections indicate…
The broadcast upfront marketplace is expected to bring between $8.6 billion and $8.8 billion this year, marking a 5 percent to 7 percent year-to-year increase, media buyers and sellers told TelevisionWeek last week.That broadcast tally would be at least $200…
WB’S FRIDAY FAREWELLThe WB’s Friday night lineup wraps this week with finales of What I Like About You at 8, Greetings From Tucson at 8:30, Reba at 9 and Grounded for Life at 9:30. Tonight, ABC will air what could…
The deal has been signed that will bring the animated series tentatively titled Howard Stern: The Teen Years [a k a Howard Stern’s High School Years] to Spike TV, Viacom’s newly rebranded network for men, TelevisionWeek has learned. A production…
Now that Vivendi Universal SA Chairman and CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou has admitted he plans to sell the French conglomerate’s film, television and theme park assets by the end of the year, conventional wisdom has all eyes focused on Barry Diller,…
In what could turn out to be a major pain for some media companies, sources last week said a Federal Communications Commission majority appears to have decided to continue limiting the ability of broadcasters and newspapers to merge in the…
FX has pulled the plug on one of its most ambitious projects, political reality show American Candidate. But the show’s creator, R.J. Cutler, insisted Friday that the show will go on anyway.Mr. Cutler, a dogged documentarian whose Emmy Award-winning series…
E! Entertainment Television will launch its biggest slate of originals to date, scaling back such signature original series as E! True Hollywood Story, Rank and Revealed, as it prepares to expand its repertoire for a massive summer of new series….
Fox and NBC may be tied for first place in the adults 18 to 49 race after the first full week of sweeps, but Fox is the big gainer, up 22 percent from the same period last year.NBC, on the…
NBC News has won the competition for Richard Engel, who became a star of the war in Iraq as a free-lancer who stayed in Baghdad, reporting for ABC News, after other U.S. TV news crews were ordered out either by…