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John Carrozza has been named VP, national advertising sales, Discovery Networks. He was formerly executive VP, sales planning, for the ABC Family Channel/Disney Kids Network. Mr. Carrozza is responsible for all ad sales proposals and inventory portfolio management for Discovery’s…
Cablevision’s Joan Hendricks presents a $5,000 check to John Renyhart of the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, N.Y., July 9 in support of the museum’s new exhibition on Long Island spectator sports.Filmmaker Rory Kennedy, left, celebrates the “Pandemic: Imaging…
Title: President, advertising sales, Universal TelevisionRecent interesting deal: “The deal I made with USA Networks, now Universal Television. Within a three-month period, I left NBC, the No. 1 network, where I sold the Olympics, their No. 1 event, to simultaneously…
With the two-week orgy of self-aggrandizement known at the TCA summer press tour now over, we can officially look ahead to the fall and the 2002-03 TV season. As a veteran of many Television Critics Association sessions from the TV…
‘McLaughlin’ re-‘Groups’ Neither increased competition from former “Group” member Chris Matthews nor the loss of funding from longtime sponsor General Electric Co. shall be cause for pause by John McLaughlin, the commentator who helped turn verbal brawling into a TV…
Veronis Suhler offers bullish forecastVeronis Suhler Stevenson’s annual Communications Industry Forecast calls for a consumer and advertiser rebound in the second half of 2002. In what is a more bullish outlook than most on Wall Street, the report calls for…
Getting tough about the digital TV rollout, a top Federal Communications Commission official told Electronic Media last week that broadcasters will no longer be allowed to routinely operate DTV stations at reduced power.“We’ve made no bones about the fact that…
The local television marketplace has gone through some dramatic changes in the past three years, particularly in Northern California and other strong tech markets around the country. In the latter part of 1999 and into 2000, new business development divisions…
Fox’s plan to start the clock on the second season of “24” with a commercial-free hour has ticked off some of the network’s affiliates, some of whom are suggesting that if Fox doesn’t adequately compensate the stations for the time…
Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., blocked a confirmation vote for Jonathan Adelstein late last week, according to a key source, raising new questions about when the Democrat would be cleared to step in at the Federal Communications Commission.Sen. Lott…