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Though few syndicated series are officially on the market, Katz Television Group Programming is unveiling its annual pre-National Association of Television Program Executives fall 2004 program reviews this month to its more than 350 Katz Television Group client stations. New…
After weeks of second-guessing among cable insiders about the Game Show Network’s rebranding, the network last week revealed its new name: GSN.“During the last two years we brainstormed dozens of names-Game TV, Gamevision-a lot of names with the word `game’…
Cyma Zarghami has been promoted to the newly created position of president, Nickelodeon Television. Ms. Zarghami will oversee all Nickelodeon Television operations, including Nickelodeon’s digital services, Noggin/The N, Nickelodeon Games and Sports and Nicktoons, and will continue to oversee all…
John Lansing has been named executive VP for Scripps Networks. Scripps Networks, a division of The E. W. Scripps Co., operates Home & Garden Television, Food Network, the DIY-Do It Yourself Network and Fine Living. Mr. Lansing is being appointed…
An unfortunate annual TV tradition for syndicators continued the week ending Dec. 28, as viewing levels declined sharply during the holidays. The audience was down by more than 4 million viewers Christmas Day, according to Nielsen Media Research data.While most…
Another twig has sprouted on the Schwarzenegger branch of the extended NBC family tree. Mike Murphy, a hot-hot-hot Republican campaign strategist (for Sen. John McCain’s 2000 presidential bid, among many others) has been hired as consulting producer on “Dennis Miller.”…
No, the woes of Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, Kobe Bryant, Paris Hilton and Robert Blake aren’t the impetus behind Paramount Domestic Television’s launch of “Entertainment Tonight’s” first full-scale syndicated series spinoff. When “The Insider” debuts as a nightly half-hour newsmagazine…
The National Association of Broadcasters has quietly launched a series of strategic planning retreats to beef up the organization’s effectiveness.One of the key objects of the behind-the-scenes navel gazing, according to sources: Determining whether to woo the TV networks back…
“Saturday Night Live” executive producer Lorne Michaels will receive the David Susskind Achievement Award in Television during the 15th Annual Producers Guild Awards Saturday evening in Los Angeles. Warren Beatty, James Cameron and Dino De Laurentiis will also be honored,…
Just as syndicators are leaving for Las Vegas to press the flesh at the National Association of Television Program Executives convention, the Syndicated Network Television Association appear close to finding its new president. Multiple sources said the front-runner for the…