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On the road: Over the summer, Caroline Rhea visited 26 cities to meet station executives and promote her upcoming Warner Bros. talk show “The Caroline Rhea Show.” Electronic Media asked her to keep a diary of her travels. A peek…
CNN got more than it bargained for last week when it began showing off its prize cache of al Qaeda training tapes. The network clearly hoped the tapes would garner attention-and ratings-but it probably wasn’t expecting to find itself in…
Sometime early in the second half of this decade, interactive television will take off. That will be when it reaches its “critical mass,” at around 15 percent to 20 percent market penetration, and that’s when a “third-party network” capable of…
It’s not every day that people go wild over an 850-foot steel tower. So when I learned that KTWU-TV, the tiny public television station in Topeka, Kan., was throwing a big party for the big metal stick that will soon…
“Exploiting? Yes. Unfairly? Not so much. Anna Nicole is ultimately responsible for her own professional decisions-even the really bad ones. E! just happened to realize that her life was ripe for the picking, and Anna probably didn’t need much persuading.”Brill…
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‘Folks’ earns extension NBC has extended an eight-episode order on the summer reality series hit “Meet My Folks” from Nash Entertainment and NBC Studios. An NBC spokeswoman said the network is still determining whether the new order for “Meet My…
Osborne wants to pull Fox interview Revived rocker Ozzy Osbourne ‘s lawyers claim he was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren under false pretenses and have demanded that Fox pull the heavily promoted interview scheduled to air in part on Fox…
Gurin, Carlton, Action Time form pact The Gurin Company, co-producer of NBC’s “Weakest Link,” has entered into a joint creative venture with U.K-based production companies Carlton Television and Action Time to develop and produce reality and game show TV series….
Time Warner Entertainment settlement terms AOL Time Warner will pay AT&T-Comcast $2.1 billion in cash, $1.5 billion in AOL Time Warner stock and a 24 percent stake in a new publicly traded Time Warner Cable (to be formed in 2003)…