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With television audiences already being battered by a rising tide of grueling awards shows, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences wants to create yet another one: the Latin Emmys. The proposal has sparked resistance from the rival Academy…
Can a gangsta rapper replace a gangster? At the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles this week, HBO will introduce a new lineup, including “The Ali G Show,” a comedy chat program starring a faux gangsta rapper from…
Acme sells two stations to Tribune Acme Communications will take a big bite out of its debt with the sale of WB-affiliated KPLR-TV in St. Louis and KWBP-TV in Portland, Ore., to Tribune Co. for $275 million. The deal is…
The accidental tour-ists The Television Critics Association’s winter tour gets under way today at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in the Hollywood & Highland complex, the location for which the networks convinced the TCA to forsake Pasadena’s more spa-like Ritz-Carlton Huntington….
Jackson is latest to leave CNN Brooks Jackson, the Washington-based senior correspondent specializing in campaign finance reform and political ads, is leaving CNN. Mr. Jackson joined the network in 1990 after a decade as a reporter for The Wall Street…
ABC’s decision to offer updated statistics with the click of a remote-control button during four college bowl games last week scored points with those who still believe in the potential of-and the fiscal need for-single-screen interactive TV. ABC Sports and…
Broadcast networks will fight a proposal by a coalition of TV producers to bring back a form of fin-syn. The producers, operating under the banner of the Coalition for Program Diversity, urged the Federal Communications Commission in a filing last…
* In “Coalition: Put indie shows on network TV” (EM, Dec. 30), the Directors Guild of America is a member of the Coalition for Program Diversity. The Writers Guild of America is not a member. * In Quick Takes (EM,…
Ford Motor Co. has filed a lawsuit accusing the principals of the production company that created and produced the “Beyond Tough” cable reality series of fraud. “Tough,” which was telecast for five episodes last year on The Learning Channel, was…
Nearly a year after becoming an NBC owned-and-operated station, San Francisco’s KNTV scored some big demographic victories in news in the November sweeps, but still has its work cut out for it. KNTV’s ratings on average are only about 70…