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ABC touts sales potential for new shows At ABC, executives are counting the ways in which “Push, Nevada” is pulling in advertising revenue. The drama from Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Sean Moore will be writing in opportunities for product…
Bauer-Gonzales to take KCAL, KCBS news director roles The buzz in Los Angeles for the past week has been that KCAL-TV news director Nancy Bauer-Gonzales will assume the role of news director for both KCAL and KCBS-TV. A CBS spokesman…
USA Interactive considering buy of subsidiary shares USA Interactive has proposed spending $4.5 billion to reign in the shares of its publicly traded subsidiaries — Ticketmaster, Hotels.com and Expedia — it doesn’t already own to strengthen its stock and company…
Title: Senior VP, ad sales, Discovery NetworksRecent interesting deal: “We’re expanding our partnership efforts with the creation of Discovery Solutions, an integrated sales and marketing team. [One example is] `Ice Age’ and 20th Century Fox. The `Ice Age’ partnership was…
“I would have loved to have seen Margaret Mead, and since Phil Donahue’s unavailable, I think the most interesting combination would be `What Did Ann Say,’ co-hosted by Annie Liebowitz and Anna Nicole Smith.”Bob Klingle, VP/general manager, WHAS-TV (ABC), Louisville,…
A bipartisan trio of influential senators recently asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell to examine concentration in the TV programming marketplace and its impact on program diversity.The request, made in a May 22 letter, asked Mr. Powell, the most…
We finally know. Electronic Media’s staff-after months of hand wringing, teeth gnashing and fending off relentless Hollywood publicists-has determined the most powerful players in the television business. It took many meetings, bitter arguments and untold exchanges of e-mail (not to…
BroadcastingBrian Knox to VP and director of diversity, Katz Media Group, from VP and managing director, Katz Urban Dimensions.Blaine Rominger to general sales manager, KTVU-TV, Oakland, Calif., from general sales manager, KMEX-TV, Los Angeles.Solomon Trujillo, chairman, president and CEO, Graviton,…
Not all advertisers run from controversy. Some, the so-called “heat-seeking advertisers,” who are trying to reach the younger demographics, in particular young men, seek out controversy.That proposition is about to get a new test on ratings leader NBC, which next…
When Joel Surnow first suggested to his producing partner Robert Cochran that he had an idea for a TV show that would consist of 24 one-hour episodes, each representing one hour in a single day, Mr. Cochran was not exactly…