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NBC will name Escobar to head Telemundo stationsNew York-Ramon Escobar is expected to be named senior VP for NBC’s Telemundo station group this week. Mr. Escobar will be responsible for all local news operations, news promotion and local programming in…

The Insider

The Insider hates to be a gossip spoilsport, but she’s about to take some fun out of a story that’s making the rounds. According to this story, Viacom Chief Operating Officer Mel Karmazin was slow to warm to the idea…

Wrestling with an albatross: ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy’

Ever since Milton Berle first donned a dress, TV series have been reviled, blamed for everything from lapses in civilization to mysterious itches, mercilessly scalded by critics and terminated with extreme prejudice by their networks. And, occasionally, loved.But jailed? That’s…

Fox Box filling up

4Kids Entertainment’s Saturday morning Fox Box block has sold just over 80 percent of its national ad inventory to date, said 4Kids Entertainment Chairman Al Kahn. The sell-out rate, though found to be unexpectedly high by national ad buyers, could…

Favorite CBS shows

Here are the results of our recent poll on EMonline.com, where we asked, “What’s the best CBS show of all time?” These shows received the most votes:1. “All in the Family” 2. “I Love Lucy” 3. “M*A*S*H” 4. “The Mary…

‘Best of’ fare for ‘World’

Fans of syndication’s once thriving action hours who anxiously await the start of the new season will have to wait a lot longer than expected to see original product. New Line has confirmed that “The Lost World” will air this…

Briefly Noted

Clear Channel Television President Bill Moll named five of the station group’s executives regional VPs to help streamline the reporting structure. “It’s a way of simply getting our arms around nearly 40 television stations,” he said.KCBA-TV and KION-TV General Manager…

This … is CBS

My near lifelong relationship with the Columbia Broadcasting System began in 1943, when CBS was a mere 16 years old, and I, a mere 15-year-old, stood in the studio audience line at Sunset and Gower for a broadcast of the…

Leaving the “Light” on for 65 years

It isn’t difficult to find baby boomers who recall racing home after school to catch either “Dark Shadows” in the ’60s or “General Hospital” in the ’70s and early ’80s, in those now seemingly unwieldy days before the advent of…

Notes from a Survivor

Hello, my name is Jerri Manthey, otherwise known as “Jerri From `Survivor,”’ “The Ice Princess,” “She-Devil in a Blue Bikini,” the “Bitch/Joan Collins of the Outback,” “Man-Eater” (thanks for that one, by the way) and various other derogatory names-most of…