15,322 Entries
Now that MGM is officially on board as a National Association of Television Program Executives floor exhibitor in January, NATPE president and CEO Rick Feldman has cemented plans for the three-day convention in Las Vegas. Mr. Feldman said during a…
Young men are returning to TV-but they aren’t coming back in droves, and not to broadcast television.In the week starting Oct. 27 the number of men 18 to 24 watching TV matched the season high, according to recent data from…
With poker shows scoring royal flushes in the ratings, Game Show Network is putting its chips on televising a blackjack tournament.GSN’s “The World Series of Blackjack” will be staged as a weekly reality series set to launch in the spring….
The new programming slate, which Style Network will roll out during the next two months, follows. Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?A reality series that follows six wedding planners in various cities as they try to successfully coordinate weddings large and…
Sir Howard Stringer sheepishly conceded that his Sony Corp. of America is to blame for the mysterious disappearance this fall of males age 18 to 34 from network television, his old stomping ground. “They are playing on my devices. They…
It was a starry, starry night Nov. 2 at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, site of the most elaborate ruse ever for a going-away bash. The cavalcade of then and now CBS stars were told to dress for a live telecast…
News Corp. last week said it posted a 160 percent surge in fiscal first-quarter profit to $422 million, or 29 cents per American Depository Receipt, from $162 million, or 12 cents per ADR, a year ago. The increase was fueled…
During the six decades that he held sway over Hollywood, the late Lew Wasserman used his influence and even a bit of fear to put off would-be biographers by telling them that he saw no value in personal publicity. As…
As TV stations continue to mine the Internet as a potential outlet for nontraditional revenue, a number of local broadcasters are looking to online contests to bring in extra change.In an economic climate that’s putting budget squeezes on TV stations,…
If media planning sometimes seems like religion, it’s because the field has always been driven by a few gospel-like principles that haven’t changed all that much since the dawn of the mass media marketplace. In the beginning, it was all…