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Ahern to run WBBMNew York-The Viacom Television Stations Group hired Joe Ahern, an ABC stations veteran who has been general manager of top-ranked KGO-TV in San Francisco for four years, to be president and general manager of Viacom-owned WBBM-TV, Chicago….
There’s one group that’s not joining in the growing chorus of those wondering why two months after Bryant Gumbel walked away from the “Early Show” CBS News hasn’t named a successor. That’s CBS affiliates who think hasty decisions would only…
Action star Chuck Norris is returning to television after entering an exclusive agreement to star in and develop a new weekly television series with Tribune Entertainment designed to premiere in fall 2003. The upcoming series will be targeted for syndication…
News Corp. is discussing going forward with a new network devoted to the reality genre.The so-called Fox Reality Channel, which would be cable- and satellite-delivered, would run reality programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Electronic Media has…
While off-network sitcom ratings have come out of the woods with spiked ratings for the week ending July 21, it was another Woods who sunk weekend fare into a ratings quagmire.According to Nielsen Media Research, eight of the top nine…
If a baseball strike in mid-September leads to the cancellation of the World Series, it might not crush Fox in the short-term. But the long-term impact could result in financial problems deeper than the ones the network is already experiencing…
DeGeneres, Baldwin fit to be squared“Hollywood’s” hunt is over, as King World Productions officially announced that Ellen DeGeneres and Alec Baldwin would serve as two of the game show’s rotating center squares for the season. Distributor King World announced that…
“This is going to be a banner year for us, we hope, with the heated gubernatorial race and the sensitivity that we have about voting in Florida. … We are on guard and excited about the opportunity the additional political…
Allen Sabinson’s exit from the top programming post at A&E Networks last week was abrupt but hardly unexpected, at least not by those Nielsen aficionados who have watched the once thriving arts network’s ratings fall during his tenure.Mr. Sabinson, a…
WB kicks ‘Black Sash’ into midseason The WB has formally placed a midseason series order on “The Black Sash,” which stars Russell Wong (“Romeo Must Die”) as an ex-cop who moonlights as a bounty hunter while operating a dojo in…