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Post-Super Bowl, Bare Breasts on ‘ER’ Raise Alarm Only days after the firestorm created when Janet Jackson exposed her breast during the Super Bowl, the possibility to air an episode of “ER” on NBC Thursday evening that includes a view…
CBS Affils Denounce Halftime Antics Reactions from CBS affiliates and Washington advocacy groups started pouring in soon after the Federal Communications Commission announced Monday it will investigate the baring of Janet Jackson’s breast during the live Super Bowl halftime show….
Here’s an offer you won’t want to refuse: “The Sopranos” returns to HBO on March 7 with a bang. To make sure fans of the northern New Jersey family make the connection, an estimated $5 million new marketing campaign focuses…
Building on the hoopla from last year’s record-breaking performance, the TNT network is on a fast break to the NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles, which is proving to be one of cable’s biggest draws among both viewers and advertisers.Last…
Time Warner’s two corporate lieutenants strategically and intellectually complement and challenge each other.Don Logan, 59, chairman of Time Warner’s media and communications group, is a career publisher and a longtime chairman of Time Inc. who studied abstract mathematics in college…
Giving a shot of testosterone to what already looks like a regulatory behemoth, the Bush administration last week endorsed legislation to crack down on indecent broadcasts by jacking up the maximum fine for airing off-color programming from $27,500 to $275,000.“As…
In a candid interview, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch told me he does not feel threatened by Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone’s emergence as the second-most-powerful voting shareholder in his company, and even hinted that the two might one…
When it comes to industry jargon, media planning seems to have more than its fair share of business gobbledygook. And with good reason: Given the dynamic nature of the marketplace they are entrusted to evaluate, media planners must quickly develop…
This will be the year of Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, Martha Stewart, Princess Diana, Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant and, no doubt, many other celebrities whose scandals have yet to materialize. As American journalists can stray across the line into the…
Now that Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., has taken himself out of the running to succeed Jack Valenti as head of the Motion Picture Association of America, the man to beat is said to be Sen. John Breaux, D-La.-if he will…