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Dave Ferrara has been promoted to executive director of The Hollywood Radio and Television Society. Mr. Ferrara, who has been with HRTS since 1999, is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management and strategic planning of the organization’s current and future…
* In “Controversy Sells `Reagans”’ (TelevisionWeek, Nov. 24), David Marans is director of consumer insight for MindShare U.S.* In “ABC, Affils Eye Digital News” (TelevisionWeek, Nov. 24), ABC partnered with Westinghouse in Satellite News Channel, which was launched in 1982…
Bill Rosendahl has attended almost every Western Show since 1981 and served as chairman of the last three. However, he won’t be in Anaheim, Calif., this week for the event’s finale. Two days before Thanksgiving he taped the last of…
Once it was a different story. The networks would pack a sweeps month with half a dozen “true crime” movies about moms or dads who slaughtered entire neighborhoods, and a critic was more than justified in dubbing it The February…
In a rare public disclosure, one of the nation’s largest marketers recently went public with the results of a little-known shift in its marketing strategy that it says is causing it to shift budgets out of TV advertising and into…
Effective Dec. 1, MSNBC will replace “Buchanan & Press” with “The Abrams Report” at 6 p.m. (ET) weekdays. MSNBC will repeat “Abrams Report” at 9 p.m., its current time slot, until replacing it in early 2004 with a new program…
It’s difficult to catch up with Spencer Kaitz. In November, while visiting his daughter, a pre-med student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Mr. Kaitz, president and general counsel of the California Cable & Telecommunications Association, was stricken with appendicitis….
Ad buyers are contemplating a new era in television, in which NBC is no longer dominant.After years of being in a class by itself in the key 18 to 49 demographic, and with its strong hold on Thursdays, an important…
Key Democratic lawmakers were furious last week after GOP lawmakers and the White House announced that they had cut a deal to permanently set the TV station ownership cap at 39 percent of the nation’s TV homes, without consulting their…
Last month, video-on-demand service Mag Rack urged viewers to tune into its “Your Next Car” video magazine to check out the latest phenomenon of street racing.The promotion was at once an ad for Mag Rack and for the film “2…