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Quality Over Scheduling

While the rest of the broadcast networks used the Television Critics Association press tour as a platform to talk about coping with the changing rules of television by setting summer launches and short-term event series, CBS Chairman and CEO Leslie…

TCA Notes

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TV Guide Channel Broadens Its Appeal

In its continuing quest to offer more than scrolling listings, TV Guide Channel this week unveils new programming and graphics.

The Ratings Wizard

Monday, Jan. 12, 2004-Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004

TV INDUSTRY FACES MUSIC AT NATPE

The most intriguing reality show at the National Association of Television Program Executives conference last week was the discussion among industry executives-both on the event’s super-panels and in back-hall huddles-who finally are resigned to dramatically changing their cost and price…

Wired World Taps NATPE Gathering

Cable channels made a strong showing at the 41st annual National Association of Television Program Executives conference, with most networks participating at one level or another.

CSTV Scores Deal With CBS

Upstart College Sports Television is getting caught up in March Madness.

‘Idol’ Lifts Fox to Nightly Victories

The third edition of “American Idol” steamrolled over the competition last week, leading Fox to enormous nightly victories Monday through Wednesday.

Guest Commentary: Christianity Gets Short Shrift From the Media

ABC recently aired a one-hour prime-time special, “Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci,” “investigating” a novelist’s claim that Jesus Christ fathered a child before ascending to heaven. What’s more offensive than a myth with no biblical basis (in fact no first…

Anne Sweeney

Anne Sweeney’s official ABC Cable Networks Group biography reads like a parody of executive overachievement. She directly oversees Disney Channel, Toon Disney, SoapNet and the Walt Disney Television Animation production company, and manages Disney’s interest in Lifetime, A&E, E! Networks…