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Cox Communications on Friday agreed to buy the 25 percent stake in TCA Cable Partners that it didn’t already own for $153 million cash.The transaction hands Cox full control of TCA Cable’s 260,000 customers, most of whom are in Arkansas…
Andy Friendly has signed on as executive producer of ABC’s “Countdown to the Emmys 2004.” The hour-long program will broadcast live from the red carpet at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and lead into the “56th Annual Primetime Emmy…
DirecTV Group said Friday that it has completed the all-cash $2.6 billion sale of its 80.4 percent interest in PanAmSat Corp. to a private-equity team that includes Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co., The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners.The completion…
Twentieth Television has found its co-anchors for “Good Day Live,” naming Debbie Matenopoulos and Arthel Neville to join Steve Edwards on the nationally syndicated strip. The duo will join the program Monday, Aug. 30, with current co-host Dorothy Lucey continuing…
Craig Kilborn, who has been entertaining his fans with a “Countdown to Obscurity” this week, will bid bye-bye to “The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn” and CBS Aug. 27. Mr. Kilborn’s contract negotiations with CBS and David Letterman’s Worldwide…
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday that team owners have approved plans for a baseball channel for cable television. “The Baseball Channel is another in an ongoing series of changes to help grow the sport and make it…
Bob Woodruff and Terry Moran will split “World News Tonight” weekend anchor duties for ABC News. Mr. Woodruff, the correspondent who had been sharing Saturday night duties with Elizabeth Vargas since 2002, now is the primary Saturday anchor. Mr. Moran…
In a new report looking at the upcoming season, media buying agency Carat predicted that about one-third of the networks’ new fall series will be canceled by January. Among those likely to vanish are ABC’s “Rodney” and “life as we…
If two members of the Federal Communications Commission have their say, all 219 of CBS’s affiliates could have to pay a price for Janet Jackson’s breast flash during the network’s Super Bowl coverage in February. That was one of the…
Court TV has recruited Fuse President Marc Juris as general manager in charge of programming and marketing. Mr. Juris brings a maverick attitude to the Court TV management roster. At the upstart Fuse music channel, he used cheeky, sometimes not-so-tasteful…