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“Dr. Phil” wasn’t the only new strip to test the ratings waters last week.New series rolled out two by two as a pair of game shows, two other talk shows and two off-net strips also premiered to varying degrees of…
Can Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., really be serious?That’s the question shell-shocked broadcast industry lobbyists were asking themselves last week after the lawmaker released legislation that would require television stations to convert to digital TV transmission by the end of 2006.Existing…
HBO, NBC lead Creative Arts EmmysMTV’s “The Osbournes” was named outstanding reality program Sept. 14 at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which focuses primarily on the tech categories. Leading the network pack at the awards ceremony was HBO with 16…
This WeekSept. 23, CABLEready Graduate Award, sponsored by CABLEready and Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, at Lubin House, New York. Information: Sophie Beaurpere, 203-425-2136, Ext. 371.Sept. 23-24, 16th Annual NAMIC Conference: Digital Media & Diversity, sponsored by…
Ask Spencer Kaitz, the founding director of the Walter Kaitz Foundation, what the No. 1 diversity issue is today and he will tell you it is the necessity “to break the old hiring patterns. … You have to break the…
A year after the chilling and disruptive effects of 9/11, children are flocking back to Saturday morning kids networks-particularly to Kids’ WB, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and such emerging players as Fox Box, ABC Family and Nick on CBS.Almost all the…
Memo to Matt Drudge: Get new ABC sourceIn a breathless Drudge Report story, posted at 10:14:37 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday, reigning Internet gossip Matt Drudge solicited “three cheers to embattled DISNEY Chair Michael Eisner and his deputy Bob Iger after…
The slew of new game shows hitting the air aren’t the only new faces we’ll be seeing this fall.