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Only minutes after his company announced the launch of new cutting-edge channels offering movies on demand and in high definition, John Sie was musing about competing media. As founder and chairman of the Starz Encore Group, much of his focus…
Hal Walker, who passed away Nov. 25 at age 70, broke barriers in TV after becoming the first black correspondent at CBS News in 1969. He came on the scene when one of the biggest stories was the civil rights…
The NBC owned-and-operated stations are fine-tuning their schedules for 2004, and the results will be seen beginning in February.Last week the group announced it had officially renewed freshman talk show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” for a second season and canceled…
No more waiting for 25 minutes after and five minutes until the hour to bring “Today” viewers up to date on the news, traffic and weather in local markets. NBC last month gave affiliates and network-owned stations permission to run…
If off-network marketing and promotional efforts were ratings points, ABC’s “Good Morning America” would have been the big winner of the battle of the network morning stars this November sweeps.An unusual promo push behind “GMA” underlined the fact that the…
Showing more patience than a kid on Christmas morning, Vivendi Universal’s USA Network is continuing talks for the 2006 broadcast window on New Line Cinema’s surprise blockbuster “Elf.” The comedy, starring Will Ferrell as an overgrown Santa’s helper, has grossed…
What can you say about someone who was brilliant and talented, brave and intense and funny as hell? That he was a great friend, a great artist and actor and a person who will never get to fulfill the enormous…
It’s no wonder local TV stations in Bowling Green, Ky., are focused on students when it comes to ad sales opportunities. There are about 17,000 students from kindergarten through high school age in the city, which has a population of…
Mel Berning, the new executive VP of advertising sales for A&E Television Networks, has his work cut out for him.Taking over the 20-year-old cable network group, Mr. Berning will have to contend with advertiser apathy, some lackluster programming and A&E…
Cable operators are aggressively targeting the retail customers for the first time, boldly stepping onto ground that has been owned by their satellite competitors for nearly a decade. Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and leading high-definition programmers such as Discovery…