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Strike the band There will be something missing at the 45th Grammy Awards- namely, the orchestra. A report on EM contributor Aaron Barnhart’s TVbarn.com site confirmed that the ceremony, to be broadcast Sunday on CBS, will not have a musical…
‘Bachelorette’ finale scores big ratings The two-hour finale of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” was the highest-rated program of the night Wednesday in adults 18 to 49 and total viewers. From 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. (ET), it scored a 9.2 rating…
Kaplan heads back to ABC It’s official, former CNN/U.S. President Rick Kaplan, who built a larger-than-life reputation as an award-winning producer during 18 years at ABC News, is returning to his old haunts at ABC News on the eve of…
Kent Turner chairman as Kellner returns to The WB Jamie Kellner is going back to The WB, which he launched, and will serve as its CEO and chairman until his contract runs out in the summer of 2004. At that…
The NBA All-Star Game last week was a slam-dunk for TNT.Sporting an energized Michael Jordan in what is likely to be his final All-Star Game appearance, as well as a double-overtime nail-biter finish, the 2003 edition ranks as the most-watched…
A study that claims top station groups fail to produce “quality” news-released just before the government’s media ownership meetings-is drawing criticism from members of the station community.The study, executed by the Project for Excellence in Journalism in collaboration with Princeton…
Twentieth Television, which successfully launched “Texas Justice,” “Good Day Live” and “Ex-treme Dating” on a national platform after trial regional rollouts, has plans to continue its test pattern.Sources said that the syndicator has several series in the works but may…
Production & Satellite Services Inc., one of the nation’s leading providers of satellite remote trucks for live news and sports coverage, has added an Internet connection for its television clients doing remotes from the field. The 17-year-old Los Angeles-based firm…
California’s biggest Fox stations have generated some early success in the first few days of February sweeps. For the first time, on Los Angeles’ KTTV, a Fox owned-and-operated station, its homegrown “Good Day L.A.” has beaten all 7 a.m.-to-9 a.m….
Fox reporters expelledLos Angeles-Iraq told Fox News Channel Friday that its four staff members in Baghdad would have to leave the country. According to the Dow Jones Business News, John Stack, the network’s VP for news gathering, said Fox News…