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Industry Aspirants to Be Honored

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation on Sunday will host the 25th anniversary edition of the College Television Awards, a national competition that recognizes achievements in student-produced films and videos and awards $60,000 in cash and prizes.The day…

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Foreman Joins ‘The Contender’ George Foreman is the latest champion boxer to sign on to NBC’s reality show “The Contender.” He will appear in the show, along with boxer Sugar Ray Leonard and actor Sylvester Stallone. “The Contender” is a…

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MTV, Telepictures Sued Over Osbournes Shows The “Osbournes’” designer says it wasn’t paid for all of its work. California design company Bountiful Inc. filed a lawsuit Thursday against MTV Networks Enterprises and Telepictures Productions claiming breach of contract and negligence,…

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MSNBC Slates High-Tech Summit After focusing on big-picture, high-tech moguls in previous tech summits, MSNBC is stocking up on consumer gadgets and celebrity panelists for “The Future Is Now: Tech Summit 2004,” a two-hour live program scheduled for telecast at…

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U.S. Digital TV Unveils Digital Subscription Channel So-called “cable-nevers” now have a way to access some of cable’s most popular networks without compromising their stance against cable and satellite. U.S. Digital Television Tuesday unveiled its nationwide over-the-air digital subscription cable…

ABC-Affils Confab a Firm Go

ABC has scheduled its first full-blown affiliates convention in four years for June 9-11 at Disney’s California Adventure amusement park.It will come at a time affiliates are anything but amused by ABC’s continuing prime-time problems and have questions about who…

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Omnimedia Sizes Up Options for ‘Martha Stewart Living’ Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said it is evaluating the choices it faces with its television series “Martha Stewart Living” following the March 5 conviction of its namesake for lying to investigators about…

D.C. Follies, Part One: Markey Makes His Mark

While it seems as though every politician in Washington is jumping on the media consolidation bandwagon, Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., is an exception. He’s been a strong proponent of the effort to limit media consolidation. To make his point, the…

D.C. Follies, Part Two: The Mute Factor

Jaws dropped at a House telecommunications subcommittee hearing last week when Bob Lee, president and general manager of WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Va., told lawmakers that they should consider the “Oh shit factor” before pumping out new legislation affecting satellite TV….

The New Face of Fremantle

The success of “American Idol” has propelled FremantleMedia North America from a struggling purveyor of syndicated game shows to a top producer in the prime-time reality game. Fremantle just added an order from MTV for a new show called “Your…