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With a decade of sexual predators, mismatched lovers, on-air confessions and a pair of pregnancies now under her belt, Sony’s daytime staple “Ricki Lake” underwent a makeover in the off-season. Executives, producers and the talk show host herself are touting…
CBS staffers were said to be stunned last week when Joe Abruzzese, president of CBS network sales, announced he was leaving to head ad sales at Discovery Networks.And well they should have been. If Leslie Moonves has been the key…
Regarding Diane Mermigas’ story “plans new TV model” (EM, Oct. 7), perhaps experts can explain a few things to me. Though a longtime broadcaster who works for ABC News-Network Radio, I’m just a lay person when it comes to Wall…
Title: Senior VP, national ad sales, Discovery Networks, U.S.Recent interesting deal: “Two recent deals stand out. The first was the cross-platform partnership with Procter & Gamble and MediaVest across several Discovery properties, including the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, the…
The debate is raging about how real and sustainable the current advertising recovery is, and some of the biggest media players are taking sides.Mel Karmazin, Viacom’s chief operating officer, recently declared that “extraordinarily strong advertising demand” has pushed CBS’s fourth-quarter…
OpenTV last week had some good news and bad news.The bad news: The interactive TV software company laid off nearly 50 percent of its 670 employees.The good news: An interactive TV company actually had 670 employees.ITV companies, which were supposed…
You’ve heard the promos. The authoritative, stentorian voice announcing tonight’s exclusive I-team report that will change your life forever. The hook sounds convincing enough, and sometimes there is substance to match. Too often, however, today’s television “investigations” are nothing more…
Only hours after agreeing to a $4 billion merger with Carlton Communications, key Granada PLC executives made their pitch to the Hollywood creative community on the value of doing joint productions with the soon-to-be-united British powerhouse. “There are three major…
WOLO-TV is using a two-way fiber to bring a top-30-quality newscast to market No. 84. Bahakel Communications-owned ABC affiliate WOLO in Columbia, S.C., reduced its staff and ventured into the great centralcasting experiment earlier this month when it began broadcasting…
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced legislation last week that would give major tax breaks to broadcasters and other owners of telecommunications facilities who sell their properties to women, minorities and other small business entrepreneurs.Under the measure, the Telecommunications Ownership Diversification…