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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…
NBC has counter-counterprogrammed a two-hour edition of “Dateline NBC” titled “Michael Jackson Unmasked” against tonight’s ABC rerun of “Living With Michael Jackson” documentary, with which ABC scored hugely Feb. 6. NBC originally planned to air an hour version of the…
British Academy Film Awards to air this month Add Feb. 23 to your award show calendar. That’s when BBC America will telecast, live and commercial-free, the British Academy Film Awards, the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the American Academy Awards. Like…
CNN-ABC News merger definitely off AOL Time Warner announced Thursday that a merger between CNN and ABC News presented too many complications and that the high-level on-again, off-again talks that started last year are dead. “After careful review, it was…
Dog show tops cable viewing Cable viewers went to the dogs Tuesday — the purebred dogs, that is, making USA Network’s telecast of the 2003 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show from New York’s Madison Square Garden the most-watched program on…