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Debbie Smith, a financial services executive with professional experience in minority affairs, national business and trade association management, has been selected to serve as executive director of the Walter Kaitz Foundation. Ms. Smith will oversee the day-to-day management of the…
February 1984Lifetime created by merger of Daytime and Cable Health Network, a joint venture of The Hearst Corp., ABC and ViacomApril 1984Tom Burchill named president and CEO, Lifetime Television July 1990First original movie, “Memories of Murder” February 1993Doug McCormick succeeds…
It’s fortunate, perhaps, that “CBS’s” (“see-bee-esses”) is hard to say, and “CBS News’s” even harder. If they weren’t, Dan Rather would probably have to do what Tom Brokaw does on NBC: identify every correspondent on the newscast he anchors as…
Some community activists and Fox station group executives are celebrating as a victory the delay until after the May sweeps of the rollout of the new Local People Meters TV ratings system in New York. However, the move by Nielsen…
The concept of “communications planning,” a hot topic on Madison Avenue for a while now, got even hotter last week when Procter & Gamble, the nation’s largest advertiser, initiated what is believed to be the first large-scale review of a…
Executive shuffles are under way among several of Disney’s TV businesses.* At ABC, Chairman Lloyd Braun is expected to exit. ABC Cable Networks Group President Anne Sweeney is expected to add oversight of the network to her purview. Mark Shapiro,…
After spending much of 2003 in the shadow of cable operators, old-line telephone companies have started to fight back.Spurred by a loss of market share brought on by cable’s so-called triple play of bundled video, voice and data services, Regional…
Monday, March 29, 2004-Sunday, April 4, 2004TV Season Week No. 28NBC won the week in adults 18 to 49 with a 4.2/12, while CBS won the week in total viewers with 13.2 million. Top Shows of the WeekAdults 18 to…
Roy Disney is stepping up his efforts to get employee-voter data from the company’s March 3 shareholders meeting. The disgruntled former Walt Disney Co. board member filed a lawsuit last week in Delaware Chancery Court to force the entertainment company…
The mounting violence in Iraq against American and coalition military forces and foreign civilians has created a dangerous situation for journalists who need to move about the embattled region. The city of Fallujah in particular has become so unsafe that…