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Nielsen Media Research’s insistence that it was “not revising, adjusting or restating its audience data or its universe estimates for the 2001-2002 television season” has been met with a sense in some network quarters that that is exactly what the…
News late last week that 15 senior AOL Time Warner executives and directors made almost $500 million selling company shares at a high during 2001-all the while insisting the company could meet ambitious financial targets it would later miss-overshadowed earlier…
Harris exiting SonyLos Angeles-Sony Pictures Entertainment is preparing to announce the departure of Mel Harris, 60, as president and chief operating officer when his contract expires next month. His duties and areas of command, which include television production and distribution,…
Stay tuned for Peter Jennings … There’s a press preview of Peter Jennings’ six-part prime-time series “In Search of America” at 8 a.m. today. That’s no typo. On the penultimate Monday of the summer, reporters, who tend to be grumpy…
EchoStar is not DirecTV’s favorite dish.Some telemarketers apparently are trying to trick DirecTV subscribers into switching to EchoStar’s dish in preparation for the EchoStar merger with DirecTV, which would add nearly 11 million customers to its subscriber base. DirecTV says…
The red carpet is about to be rolled out for Hollywood royalty at the most unlikely of places: the Discovery Networks.That’s largely because Discovery’s new president, Billy Campbell, is the ultimate Hollywood insider.Getting Discovery more in tune with Hollywood is…
A year from now, Michael Eisner could be gone as chief executive of The Walt Disney Co., Mel Karmazin may be Sumner Redstone’s designated successor at Viacom and Barry Diller could be king of a new media giant.Such high-level executive…
In a conspicuously overt operation, “She Spies”-a one-hour action-adventure-comedy series from MGM Television Entertainment-got the jump on the competition with a special network preview on NBC this summer before heading off to syndication in the fall.Having the opportunity to promote,…
In “Tapeless television: not as easy as all that” (EM, Aug. 19, Page 9), the photo at right is of KGO-TV News Director Kevin Keeshan.
‘Heart’ changes host: Jagger returnsChris Jagger will return as host of Telepictures Productions’ “Change of Heart” this fall as the show enters its fifth season. He replaces Lynne Koplitz, who hosted the 2001-02 season. Mr. Jagger was the host of…