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TV in Transition: Invasion of the pod deals

It’s just not the Hollywood we remember. Once commonplace overall TV development and production deals with marquee producers and writers-often commanding multimillion-dollar salaries-are becoming a thing of the past. Growing in their place are so-called “pod” production deals. Think of…

Guest Commentary: A call for a humane handling of Sept. 11

One day last week, I was busy tapping some upcoming meetings into my PDA when it dawned on me that Sept. 11 was just about a month away. It gave me pause for a few moments and then I turned…

Hollywood Notes

Voice, animation Emmys announcedHBO grabbed three of the four Emmys in the voice-over performance and individual achievement in animation categories, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced last week. These juried award categories, which have no nominations, will be…

Name your favorite CBS series of all time

What’s your all-time favorite CBS TV series? We’re commemorating CBS’s 75 years of broadcasting on Sept. 2 and we’d love to know. The Tiffany network can claim some of the most beloved shows ever on TV. To name a few:…

Profile: Haig Krakirian

Title: VP, software engineering, Pioneer Digital Technologies, a division of Pioneer North America.Background: Mr. Krakirian joined Pioneer five years ago after having spent three years as director of engineering with Time Warner Cable Broadband Applications, where he was deeply involved…

FCC sets its sights on ‘total carriage’

The Federal Communications Commission is considering a new regulation that would require cable operators that carry a broadcaster’s DTV signal to carry virtually all the free programming offered over the channel, sources said.Under the agency’s existing rule, cable operators that…

The Insider

Sweat, Ca-a-a-rolineThe hottest party in New York last week was Telepictures Productions’ launch party for “The Caroline Rhea Show,” thanks to the heat-and-humidity wave gripping the city and thanks to the guest quotient. The tent on the penthouse terrace at…

Ratings

See publication for the following listings:Demographic ratings: Broadcast Prime Time, SyndicationNight-by-night Nielsen Prime-time ratings for the week of Aug. 5-11Ratings for the week of Aug. 5-11

Stations turn to branding to boost ratings

San Francisco’s KPIX-TV has historically found its 11 p.m. newscast in third place, and the station wanted to climb the ratings ladder. So the CBS affiliate decided it needed a branding campaign that emphasized the importance of its breaking news…

Bilingual reporters have the inside track

Job candidates at TV stations throughout the United States can now step to the head of the line if they speak both English and Spanish.As the Hispanic population in the United States continues to grow each year, bilingualism has become…