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Award-winning entertainment journalist Alex Ben Block has been appointed editor of Electronic Media. Mr. Block, who has served as editor of The Hollywood Reporter and associate editor at Forbes Magazine, will join the team at EM on Jan. 6. He…
Hold on to your hats.A new news breeze swept through the Windy City in the recently concluded November late-news sweeps, with WMAQ, the NBC owned-and-operated station, dethroning WLS, the perennial late-news leader in the Chicago market, for the first time…
Roone Arledge, chairman of ABC News, died Dec. 5 after a long battle with cancer. He was 71. Mr. Arledge effectively created ABC Sports and was its president from 1968 to 1986. He later breathed life into ABC News and…
New York-Some 10 people at various levels of Millennium Sales & Marketing, the largest of Katz Television Group’s three TV divisions, lost their jobs last week in a restructuring that hit hardest in New York, where about two-thirds of Millennium’s…
All the best people seem to be gone or going-in show business generally, and in television in particular. Certainly there are drastically fewer giants looming large on the landscape than there were 10, 20 years ago. We’re perhaps at the…
Cable is getting real to attract viewers.Several top cable networks struck deals last week to beef up their schedules with a slew of reality entries, including new U.S.-produced episodes of a British import and programs featuring supermodel Naomi Campbell and…
The Major League Baseball season will start a little early on Fox Broadcasting next year. The network is taking two Saturday games of the week off its September 2003 national TV schedule and adding two games to the network lineup…
Anaheim, Calif.The state of the union was topic A at BroadbandPlus, a k a The New Western Show, the tech-heavy 35th edition of the annual cable convention sponsored by the California Cable & Telecommunications Association, which was held last week…
The world without Roone? Some of us were talking about that very thing as it became clear in the way things always became clear about Roone-by indirection-that he was not only sick, he was terminally sick and would be gone…
The cloudy picture of syndication’s fall 2003 season got a shot of clarity this week as a number of shows learned their fates. The lack of the increasingly precious real estate on many stations’ schedules wasn’t improved by a batch…