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Bob Pittman is a TV mogul-again.
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“My favorite TV character is Robert Evans as himself in `Kid Notorious.’ I think he is just brilliant! He laughs and makes fun of himself and his career through a cartoon character.”
Charm offensive
Actor-producer-director James Woods was among longtime friends at the annual Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors (which bills itself as the “conscience of the TV industry”) awards dinner Jan. 16 in Beverly Hills, Calif. The star of the USA…
Biz Briefs
Broadcast and cable company E.W. Scripps last week said its fourth-quarter and full-year profits surged, thanks to strong results at the company’s cable interests, particularly Scripps’ Home & Garden Television and Food Network properties. The Cincinnati-based company, which owns 10…
Richard Weitz
Representing showrunners of some of television’s most successful comedies and dramas, Richard Weitz has taken his clients to the top of their game. Now he faces two stiff challenges in his battle to keep them there: the reality boom that…
Rival TV Academies Strike Peace Accord
One of the casualties of the truce brokered in the 30-year not-always-civil war between the East Coast and West Coast TV academies is likely to be the possibility of a separate Emmy competition and telecast for Spanish-language programming.
She’s With Oscar
ABC’s freshman situation comedy “I’m With Her” is a show that lends itself to a tie-in with the Academy Awards. As part of the special Oscar push this year, ABC will air an unusual arc of four episodes with a…
TV News Notes
Jerry Nachman, the MSNBC VP and editor -in chief who was one of the most well-known, outside-the-box and colorful characters in his generation of television newsmen, died Jan. 19 at his home in Hoboken, N.J. He was 57 and had…
Jo Ann Ross
It would be nice to be No. 1. And CBS President of Sales Jo Ann Ross, the first woman to head a broadcast network ad sales operation, may find herself pushing the top network in the key 18 to 49…
FACING THE FEAR OF FRACTIONALIZATION
Were you among those who chuckled during the last upfront because TV advertisers paid more for less? Well, the reason behind that upside-down equation is no joke.