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KNBC-TV newsman Chuck Henry’s decision last week to wait until the last possible second to evacuate, despite pleas from firefighters, has raised questions among viewers and media pundits about the value of the one-foot-in-the-flames reporting style on display throughout the…
“We have positioned ourselves just like another TV station,” said Jim Gallagher, VP and general manager of Comcast Philadelphia. It is this tactic, he said, that has helped the multiple system operator’s revenues grow in the double digits over the…
Paramount, according to sources, is hoping television networks turn up the volume when bidding this week for a trio of films, most prominently “School of Rock,” the Jack Black comedy that has become a surprise hit, with a box office…
Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WCPO-TV in Cincinnati plans to move into a new 60,000-square-foot digital facility in June. It’s the fourth new facility that Scripps has built in the last decade for the 10-station group, and WCPO will be on the…
Producer Barry Josephson will join Arthur Smith, executive producer of Fox hit “Paradise Hotel,” and Sony Pictures Television in an effort to motivate daytime viewers next fall. The producers have inked a deal with best-selling author and motivational speaker/life coach…
Heading into the holiday season, a new wave of children’s programming has helped drive dramatic year-to-year viewership improvements at several kids programming outlets.For example, Disney Channel’s “Lilo & Stitch: The Animated Series,” which premiered Sept. 3, has already taken first…
Two-time Oscar nominee Joan Cusack, currently in the hit movie “School of Rock,” will be in Washington on Wednesday to host the 19th Annual Women in Cable & Telecommunications Foundation Benefit Gala, which supports programs to find and develop women…
The new leadership of the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau has canceled the association’s annual national convention and will do some heavy-duty number crunching instead.New CAB President Sean Cunningham has spent the past four months meeting with media-buying agency chiefs, buyers and…
KTLA-TV’s Willa Sandmeyer didn’t know she was seconds away from inadvertently making CNN’s California wildfire highlight reel.The veteran reporter was standing on a road in the residential area of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., giving her report. The fire was nearby, but…
If the Motion Picture Association of America offers its top slot to Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., as widely expected, the industry may succeed in hiring away one of its most influential friends ever on Capitol Hill.That was the assessment of…