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Todd Unger has been named to the newly created position of senior VP and online general manager for Lifetime Entertainment Services. He will be responsible for all aspects of Lifetime’s online division, which includes LifetimeTV.com, and nontelevision brands, including Lifetime…
Will interactive TV make it?There may not be a greater mystery in the industry. For more than 10 years, interactive TV has been called the next big thing. However, despite impressive gains in Europe, the technology has been left at…
It appears that both News Corp.-joined by John Malone’s Liberty Media-and Chuck Dolan’s Cablevision Systems Corp. might be bidding for DirecTV. Last Thursday News Corp. announced that Liberty had joined its bid. Also on Thursday, Reuters reported the possibility of…
How do you like the war so far?For a war, it has been very fast; as television it’s been a little slow.But the newspapers are totally flummoxed. They keep looking for something wrong. They are having trouble with technology. Videophones…
Top network show: Academy Awards (ABC): 12.5/30 (Adults 18 to 49) Total viewers: 33.0 million (Week ending March 23)Top cable show: War coverage (FNC) Total viewers: 8,595,000 (Week ending March 23) Top syndicated show: Wheel of Fortune (King World) Total…
This is the year that Discovery Networks will do $500 million in the upfront, compared with last year’s $350 million.That was the buoyant prediction Joe Abruzzese, president, advertising sales, Discovery Networks, made just before Discovery’s upfront presentation, one of two…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said last week that the agency has tentatively set June 2 as the date for a final vote on proposals to ax or relax its media ownership rules. Three Republican lawmakers-Sens. Wayne Allard, R-Colo.,…
NBC Tops Thursday Despite most of its lineup being in repeats, NBC won the night in adults 18 to 49 with a 5.8 rating and 16 share and total viewers with 12.4 million, according to Nielsen Media Research fast affiliate…
‘Wanda’ Debut Scores Big for Fox Amid a sea of reality last night, NBC’s The West Wing drew its smallest audience ever for an original episode, 11.7 million viewers, which placed it third in its time slot, according to Nielsen…
EchoStar’s Lawsuit Thrown Out A federal district court judge in Florida today threw out EchoStar’s claims that broadcasters had conspired anticompetitively to interfere with the satellite TV company’s business. EchoStar originally filed the claims in response to a 1998 lawsuit…