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Diaries and youth an unreliable combo

It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your younger viewers are tuning? Whether it’s 8 o’clock, 6 o’clock or 3 o’clock, the question applies, because younger viewers have proved repeatedly that when it comes to doing much more than flopping…

Guest Commentary: Embarking on another season of discontent

To everything, turn, turn, turnThere is a season, turn, turn, turnAnd a time for every network under heavenWith apologies to Pete Seeger and the Byrds (not to mention the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes, where the verses first appeared about 2,500…

Syndicators go directly to ad buyers

NATPE suffered yet another blow last week when it learned that the Syndicated Network Television Association has secured Feb. 26 at the New York Sheraton for a day of presentations to the media advertising agency community. As the annual convention…

Aftershockingly sleazy TV

In the second or third wave of emotional aftershocks from 9/11, after the first tremors of disbelief, horror and outrage it seemed there might be certain ironically positive residual effects. People both in and out of the television business predicted…

Profile: John Roberts

Title: Senior VP, interactive and online entertainment, Game Show Network.Background: Mr. Roberts worked for Paul Allen’s Vulcan Programming II as senior VP of Internet and ITV development. He has also served as VP of new media for Fox Family Worldwide,…

Hollywood Notes

‘Monk’ to continue airing on ABC“Monk,” the USA Network cable hit that was repurposed on ABC this summer, has earned its way onto the struggling broadcast network’s fall schedule.ABC will continue the repurposing experiment in the new season, picking up…

ABC, Fox, CBS score with early debuts

Last week’s preseason run-up to the networks’ rollout of the 2002-03 season this week seemed akin to out-of-town tryouts for Broadway-bound shows-hits, misses and all. Downtrodden ABC found potential hits in Tuesday sitcoms “8 Simples Rules for Dating My Teenage…

Who Is News

Advertising & AgenciesDean Waters to national sales manager, Adlink, from senior account executive. Also, Lynn Bolton to VP, director of client and strategic service, from local sales manager.BroadcastingRuss Popick to senior VP, marketing, The WB, from owner, Juice Box Productions.Tom…

Product Spotlight: CNN Local Connect

What it is: CNN Local Connect, a fiber-optic and satellite network that connects CNN’s affiliates to each other and to CNN.What it does: CNN Local Connect, which was installed by CNN at no cost to its 685 Newsource partner stations,…

Profile: Richy Glassberg

Title: Senior VP, advertising sales, Speed ChannelRecent interesting deal: “Two deals show the abilities of a targeted, focused channel. The first was for the Mercury Marauder relaunch, which ran exclusively on Speed. … [It] was a historical piece which re-introduced…