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Cable giant Comcast has reached an agreement with John Malone’s Liberty Media under which Comcast will sell 100 million shares of Liberty stock for $894 million. As part of the transaction, Liberty, which has been keen on pumping up its…
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Cap Decision Puts Stations Back in Play
Next year, it will be different for TV stations.Thanks to a confluence of events that are certain to cast the value of stations in a more flattering light, many people who follow station sales activity predict that 2004 will be…
Clairol, ‘Starting Over’ Join in Deal
NBC Enterprises’ rookie daytime reality show “Starting Over” and Procter & Gamble’s Clairol Nice ‘n Easy have joined for a rare multimillion-dollar, seven-month marketing promotion.The arrangement is atypical for TV syndication marketing. Most syndie deals are with proven off-network shows…
Pop Star Arrest Ups Newsmags
While most genres struggled toward the end of the November sweeps, celebrity-driven newsmagazines-both weekly hours and strips-continued their climb up the charts, buoyed by news of the Michael Jackson scandal.According to Nielsen Media Research figures for the week ending Nov….
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Whoopi Goldberg and Emma Thompson will be honored at a gala luncheon Wednesday in New York with 2003 Muse Awards for Outstanding Vision and Achievement, presented by New York Women in Film & Television. This year’s honorees also include Bonnie…
Unprecedented Push for ‘Files’
Court TV plans to spend $6 million on promotion-its biggest promo-spending burst to date-to get viewers to tune in during January, when the network plans to premiere an original movie and debut new episodes of several series.While Court will air…
Broadcast Networks Losing Upscale Viewers
Missing young male viewers are not the only worry for TV networks. It appears that older, more affluent viewers are leaving broadcast network television as well.Data for October collected from Nielsen Media Research shows that most networks have seen steep…
CBS Affils to Help Pay for Tourney
Under the proposed NCAA Basketball Championship “value exchange program” announced last week, CBS affiliates will give the network 49 nonprime-time commercial spots per week-plus a collective $8 million per year to help defray the $6 billion CBS agreed to pay…
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Some NBC Affiliates Won’t Carry Sharpton ‘SNL’ All four NBC affiliates in Iowa are at the head of a list of about 20 NBC affiliates in several states that are declining to carry “Saturday Night Live” this week because the…
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Time Warner Cable Fires Back at AMC Time Warner Cable on Thursday filed a counterclaim against American Movie Classics Co. in answer to a suit filed last month. In its filing, TWC argues that the new American Movie Classics is…