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Brainstorming about an America Online recovery

Jonathan Miller’s first congratulatory phone call last week was from the vacationing Jamie Kellner, chairman of Turner Broadcasting Systems. “That just tells you going in, if you conduct yourself right, the opportunities inside this company are huge,” Mr. Miller said…

How is your television station planning to commemorate Sept. 11?

“We’ll be replacing our early-fringe syndication and producing a special 90-minute news block to cover the unprecedented changes our local communities have undergone over the last year. Our reporting will complement the coverage of ABC News.”Scott Libin, news director, KSTP-TV…

NBC firms up alliance with DreamWorks

NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker’s effort to create a new studio “pod” production system at NBC had the network formally sealing a two-year series development deal with DreamWorks Television last week. Under terms of the deal, NBC will have first-look…

Oh behave, ‘Anna’: ‘Austin’ draws more

Turner Network Sales is saying “Yeah, baby” when it comes to “rolled up” or aggregated ratings, making the argument to advertisers that its recent multiple runs of movies such as “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” on TBS and…

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Simkins leaves ‘Angel’Los Angeles — David Simkins, who replaced David Greenwalt last May as show runner of The WB’s “Angel,” has departed the show over creative differences, a WB spokeswoman confirmed. “Angel” creator Joss Whedon, along with Tim Minear, will…

Autocue system to rival iNews, ENPS

ENPS and iNews have become synonymous with newsroom production systems in much the same way that Kleenex is identified with tissue. But the two entrenched media players are now facing competition from an upstart. Autocue Systems of Charlotte, N.C., has…

E! sells ‘Anna’ on cumed basis

“The Anna Nicole Show” debuted last week to stellar ratings and scathing reviews.But passing unnoticed among all the double-entendres, the speculation about star Anna Nicole Smith’s possible medication and the critical umbrage over her so-called exploitation was E! Entertainment’s adoption…

Fox weilding its duopoly power

When two stations in a market become a duopoly, is the little station doomed to get the short end of the deal? That’s the question cynics might ask in Minneapolis, where the current UPN affiliate KMSP-TV is swapping affiliations and…

Tech Briefs

AT&T introduces faster UltraLink AT&T Broadband introduced in late July a faster version of its high-speed service, UltraLink, to its customers in Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle and St. Paul, Minn. The service boasts download rates twice…