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These two revelers at the Television Publicity Executive Committee holiday party in Los Angeles are TPEC Vice Chairwoman Pam Golum, left, and TPEC Chairwoman Sharan Magnusson.Viacom’s Dennis Swanson, right, receives the John Reisenbach Foundation’s Distinguished Citizen Award Dec. 10 at…
Title: President, Malachite Media, an independent sales company representing the Executive Airline Clubroom Network, featuring CNNfn. Recent interesting deal: “We began a relationship with AIG, American International Group, the largest insurance company in the world, as an extension of their…
Adelphia Communications Corp. reported a net loss of $111.5 million, or 44 cents a share, for November, compared with a loss of $104.6 million, or 42 cents a share, for October, according to a monthly operating report filed last week…
Fox Cable Networks Group has promoted both Mike Hopkins, left photo, and Sean Riley to senior VP, affiliate sales. Mr. Hopkins was elevated from VP, national accounts, and Mr. Riley was bumped up from VP, sales operations. The two promotions…
A sea creature named SpongeBob and a card-playing boy named Yu-Gi-Oh have helped kids TV market champs Nickelodeon and WB turn in strong ratings performances during the fourth quarter. Overall, the kids TV market saw a nice bump in ad…
The Insider for years has tried to tell anyone who would listen-and more than a few who would not-that if they are not watching TV with the closed captioning on, they are not getting all the entertainment or “say what?!!?”…
While Sen. Bill Frist may be the toast of Washington with his recent confirmation as Senate majority leader, the TV industry is holding off raising its glass just yet. Industry sources are concerned that Sen. Frist, a surgeon by trade,…
“USA Today on TV” was a legendary bomb in syndication.But USA Today parent Gannett Co. is hoping to successfully adapt the brand to cable by creating a network comprising specially produced USA Today material used to frame repackaged local news…
Watchdog groups say children are awash in advertising for beer and other alcoholic beverages-and the groups are demanding a crackdown from the television industry and federal government.“No one is protecting our youth,” said David Kessler, a physician and former Food…
A recent proposal by the Federal Communications Commission to permit consumers to use cordless telephones and other unlicensed wireless devices on broadcast spectrum could lead to interference with TV reception.At least that was the alarm being sounded by the broadcast…