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The creative promotion types who usually attend Promax & BDA’s annual conference in June will get a dose of reality this year.The organization has scheduled what it’s calling a “business boot camp,” designed to help its members focus on the…
High-definition TV set maker Samsung and a coalition of eight cable operators have linked up to promote HDTV in a massive marketing campaign that will blanket leading Web sites and cable markets nationwide with the message that cable is the…
“Hell yes, I get caught up in it. It’s the best three weeks in sports. Although it’s such a big money maker, you don’t think about that aspect. It’s just the games, the kids, the emotions. For a lot of…
Ratings for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Dr. Phil” and “Access Hollywood” indicated these strips were among the few syndicated series to spike year to year during the recently concluded February sweeps, when syndication viewing audiences overall…
While Fox News Channel gets higher ratings among viewers watching at home, CNN said a new survey shows it has far more viewers out of home.The study will be a key part of CNN’s upfront presentation, designed to persuade ad…
Vivendi Universal last Wednesday said it is seeking to resolve a dispute between the French conglomerate and Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp that could throw a wrench in Vivendi’s plan to merge its U.S. entertainment assets with NBC by June. It also…
Despite talk of a year-round prime-time development cycle, the television business is coping with a pilot casting season that by all accounts is as grinding as ever.However, network executives, free-lance casting directors and talent representatives alike are cautiously optimistic that…
A month after the Academy Awards, the red carpet will return to the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood-this time for the 15th Annual GLAAD Awards, which will begin its tri-city awards presentations March 27 in Los Angeles. On April 12 the…
Charles Holland resigned as president of the Writers Guild of America West on the eve of contract negotiations between writers and producers, the Writers Guild announced last week. Mr. Holland assumed the presidency in January, when the guild’s previous leader,…
The controversy over same-sex marriage checks into “Whoopi” on Tuesday when hotel owner Mavis Rae (Whoopi Goldberg) agrees to host her gay cousin’s wedding on the same weekend her brother Courtney (Wren Brown) is hosting a meeting of the Republican…