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NBC affiliate WAVY-TV, owned by LIN Television Group, has formed an exclusive relationship with a division of the Navy in the Norfolk, Va., area, through which it helps a group of shorebound military personnel gain publicity for its volunteer work.From…
Janine Jones has been promoted to VP of current programming at The WB. She will continue to work on “Sabrina, The Teenage Witch” and two new comedies, “What I Like About You” and “Greetings From Tucson.” She joined The WB…
One thing cable news fans know about MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is to expect the unexpected. The self-described “outspoken” host will launch “The Chris Matthews Show,” a weekly syndicated half-hour through NBC Enterprises, on Sept. 22 in 93 percent of the…
Clayson leaving ‘Early’New York-Jane Clayson’s limbo on “The Early Show” is coming to an end in two weeks due to a new deal that will give her a broader playing field at CBS News and take her back to her…
Overkill or fitting tribute, the television industry’s collective remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001, on the one-year anniversary was a powerful demonstration of both the degree to which the medium has been woven into the fabric of American life and the…
Clearing the way for the potential merger of such media industry giants as AOL Time Warner and NBC, the Federal Communications Commission last week announced that it will make no effort to resurrect a regulation that barred broadcast-cable combinations in…
There are three letters that together instill fear in the advertising community. They are “PVR.”The emotional and sometimes jittery attitude toward personal video recorders is not without basis, but nevertheless requires a more studied and level-headed analysis-one that hopefully leads…
The knot in her throat was audible on air last Wednesday as WCBS-TV correspondent Penny Crone said she would rather be inside praying at one of the many memorials held on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept….
In a morale booster for network affiliates, the Fox Television Affiliates Association last week formally endorsed the effort of the Network Affiliated Stations Alliance to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on alleged network abuses.NASA, which represents the…
If Gemstar’s stranglehold on the interactive program guide market is to loosen, the time is now. The incumbent, with its entrenched TV Guide Interactive, has found itself on the receiving end of unfavorable decisions regarding its patents. Those patent woes,…