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Citigroup made a deposit worth between $70 million and $100 million into TV network coffers this month, giving a shot in the arm to a very quiet scatter market.Network ad executives said the Citigroup purchase was the biggest for the…
It’s one thing when everyone talks about a hit show. It’s something else entirely when that show changes the language. Such is the case with “Punk’d,” which has replaced “prank,” “con” and “hoax” in the national lexicon.Since March, “Punk’d,” the…
They’re gay, he’s straight. They’re stylish, he’s not. That’s the premise behind the Bravo Channel and NBC’s cable hit, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” a show that premiered in July and during the course of its first season went…
Rupert Murdoch to buy TiVo? HDTV sales to soar in 2004? Yes, “The Great Swanni” has taken out his crystal ball and is ready to make some predictions on the future of television. So let’s get it on:HDTV Sales Will…
ABC late-night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will mark its first anniversary in January without executive producer Daniel Kellison at the helm, a spokesman for ABC confirmed. Mr. Kellison is expected to exit the daily mix on “Kimmel” soon. Until a permanent…
T-shirted construction workers were still applying the finishing touches to the new NBC Cable Networks complex in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., on a recent workday as staffers were settling into new offices. Not surprisingly, NBC Cable President David Zaslav had already…
Cable TV’s all-news outlets suffered double-digit drops in viewership last week compared with a year earlier, when the three-week “Beltway sniper” spree that left 10 dead and three injured was playing out in the Washington area and a horrified nation…
Can promotions on ESPN or ESPN2 drive viewers to college football games on Disney sibling ABC? That was one of the questions behind an experiment over the weekend that, if deemed successful, may be extended through the rest of the…
FX President Peter Liguori should thank Cher for the network’s hit drama “Nip/Tuck.”The show’s creator Ryan Murphy was toiling away as an entertainment journalist in Los Angeles when he realized he needed a career change. “After I had interviewed Cher…
At the moment, Steven Lipscomb has a winning hand. As the creator and executive producer of “The World Poker Tour,” a breakout hit on The Travel Channel, he’s holding nothing short of a straight flush-possibly even a royal flush.“What I…