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The months-long ownership fight for television and newspaper owner Freedom Communications came to a close last week when the company announced it had reached a definitive agreement with a group of private equity firms that will keep the Irvine, Calif.-based…
When Larry Kane retired from his lead anchor position at KYW-TV in Philadelphia last year, he ended a 37-year broadcast reporting legacy that included his fronting the nation’s first “action news” format as well as anchoring all three Philly broadcast…
With the recent promotion of Ken Williams to president and CEO of Ascent Media Group, the post-production and network services company is now focused on having its disparate businesses work together efficiently and, more important, digitally.Ascent Media Group, wholly owned…
“Perhaps Mike Wallace for investigative reporting. [Edward R.] Murrow and [Walter] Cronkite created the roadmap for storytelling and anchoring. While [Tom] Brokaw, [Peter] Jennings, [Dan] Rather, et al., are doing excellent work, they are simply following the path laid out…
The star of “Pearl Harbor” came to accept an award last week in Beverly Hills, Calif., and to sound an alarm. The hero of “Armageddon” had a warning about another kind of danger-a danger to our freedom, free press and…
After months of tense negotiations, Fox Broadcasting has hammered out a new National Football League cost-sharing agreement with its affiliated stations that for the first time, gives the network the flexibility to repurpose up to four prime-time programs each season…
There’s no crying about baseball for Fox this year.After two years of sagging playoff ratings, Fox is cleaning up with some of its highest-rated Major League Baseball games ever and killing the competition in the process. Through last Wednesday, Fox’s…
Most Americans now living were not yet born when Newton Minow, President John F. Kennedy’s Federal Communications Commission chairman, uttered the words, “Vast wasteland.” But the phrase had such resonance almost everybody still knows it, and knows it puts down…
Cablevision CEO James Dolan’s New York Knicks narrowly lost a championship series to the Houston Rockets in 1994. Now Dolan may find that his latest encounter with rockets-or at least the satellites they launch-will be even less successful.Cablevision, which provides…
Thomas Devlin has been named president, international television distribution, CF Entertainment. He previously was senior VP for Hearst Entertainment Distribution. Mr. Devlin will be based in New York and report to Byron Allen, CF Entertainment chairman and CEO. He will…