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Marketing Blitz for ‘Tony Danza’

| Syndication | Buena Vista Gives Strip Big Push

McGrath Named MTV CEO

| Cable | Rosenthal Exits President’s Post as Personnel Moves Continue

Internet Sites Every Planner Can Use

Online Databases Provide a Wealth of Helpful, Unprotected Electronic Information Free for the Taking

‘Jeopardy!’ Rides Winner’s Wave

| Syndication | Million-Dollar Contestant Leads Game Show to Top of Heap

Amish in Hollywood

Amish youth are the subject of UPN’s “Amish in the City,” a controversial new “Real World”-style reality show premiering Wednesday with back-to-back episodes. Five Amish teens come to live in Hollywood and interact with big-city kids, and in the end…

News Getting New Promos

Convention Coverage Will Be Launching Pad for Slogans, Themes

Next: The Best Damn Talk Show

Tom Arnold Teaming With Dick Clark Productions on a ‘Springer’-Style Strip

TCA Network Notes

CBS: Viacom Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Leslie Moonves called the “CSI” franchise a “weapon” in the CBS arsenal and talked about the show’s newest incarnation in the fall on Wednesday nights. “`CSI: NY’ is not going to beat `Law…

Viacom Discloses Pay, Succession Plans

Viacom has all but assured Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves that either or both executives will replace Sumner Redstone as CEO of Viacom by 2007, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows. According to the document, which details the executives’…

What’s on the Hi-Def Horizon?

Predictably, the first movers in hi-def were the networks with the content most pleasing to the HD eye. ABC, CBS and NBC started introducing HD programming as early as 1998. Fox plans to begin this fall offering the format for…