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It seems a little unfair stacking the three “Sex and the City” supporting actresses against each other. But since this is the next-to-last time they can ever be considered in these roles, it’s conceivable that one of Carrie’s cohorts will…
Stephen Davis, president and CEO of Carlton America, and John Weiser, executive VP of Sony Pictures Television, have been nominated to become co-chairmen of the National Association of Television Program Executives. NATPE’s voting members must ratify the nominations during the…
Premier Retail Networks, which creates the programming video loops that run nationally on TV sets in Circuit City, Best Buy, Sears, Wal-Mart and other electronics stores, plans to make available high-definition content from local stations and cable operators. The move…
Gary Shapiro is my hero.Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, recently chided electronics companies for making products too difficult for consumers to use and understand.“While consumers love our products, they are also scared of them,” Shapiro…
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In the wake of the Pentagon’s decision to grant a one-year $96 million contract to the Harris Corp. to take over operation of a fledgling Arabic-language media network based in Baghdad, Iraq, former ABC news producer Dorrance Smith has been…
The primary election season shifts into high gear this week with the Iowa caucuses, which will give TV networks and the Associated Press the first high-profile test of the National Election Pool, a new system for gathering voter data and…
The new year started on a high note for syndication as newsmagazines, game shows and relationship strips began 2004 with a bang, according to Nielsen Media Research figures for the week ending Jan. 4.Rebounding from a typically slow Christmas week,…
In “WPT Gets Royal Flush of a Deal” (TelevisionWeek, Jan. 12), the headline incorrectly stated that Steven Lipscomb’s “World Poker Tour” deal with Travel Channel was concluded at the Television Critics Association press tour. The deal was completed before the…
The content providers and distributors gathering this week for the annual conference of the National Association of Television Program Executives had better start thinking big and outside the box-outside of television, that is.All of the teeth gnashing over escalating program…