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A couple of months ago a man named Gervaise Roderick Scott, “Roddy” to his friends, died in combat. He was English and grew up on a farm in North Yorkshire, a descendant of C.P. Scott, a giant of British journalism….
Broadway is getting a tryout on HBO and its sister digital network, HBO Signature. Both will telecast “Direct From Broadway,” a series of live-on-tape Broadway shows, including “Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical” starring David Hasselhoff, “Putting it Together: A Musical…
On “Good Morning, America,” Diane Sawyer called the Osbournes “America’s favorite dysfunctional family.” There are few people I’d rather not disagree with more than the fair Diane, but I don’t think the Osbournes are dysfunctional at all. They’re functional. They’re…
Fox Entertainment Group will announce a new extreme sports and lifestyle channel at BroadbandPlus: The New Western Show that it has quietly pitched to cable operators.It may be months before the new channel gets on the air, but it most…
BroadbandPlusAnaheim, Calif., Dec. 3-6. Info: 510-428-2225 or www.calcable.org. (Formerly The Western Cable Show.)NATPE 2003New Orleans, Jan. 20-23. Info: www.natpe.org. CableConnects 2003San Antonio, Feb. 19-21. Info: 512-474-2082 or www.txcable.com.NAB 2003Las Vegas, April 5-10. Info: 800-342-2460 or www.nab.org /conventions.RTNDA@NABLas Vegas, April 7-9….
Dec. 3, CTAM BroadbandPlus Luncheon: Bringing the Market to HDTV, sponsored by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, in Anaheim, Calif. Information: Seth Morrison, 703-549-4200, or www.ctam.com.Dec. 3-6, BroadbandPlus: The New Western Show (formerly the Western Cable Show), sponsored…
In a call to arms, a top Sinclair Broadcast Group representative last week urged TV stations to band together to force cable operators to pay for the right to retransmit broadcast digital television signals.“All we need to do is stop…
The New York Stock Exchange is proposing rules that would penalize a Wall Street analyst if he or she talks to a reporter and the reporter does not disclose in the resulting article whether a stock the analyst mentions is…
South Bend stations have found profitable ways to promote charity and volunteerism in their communities. This fall marks the third year of the “22 Ways of Giving” campaign for WSBT-TV Channel 22, a 50-year-old Schurz Communications-owned CBS affiliate.“We have a…
After the umpteenth story about Don Hewitt’s reluctance to pack it in at “60 Minutes” appeared in print last week, you couldn’t go to any gathering of TV types without running into a joke that invoked the name of the…