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‘Osbournes’ gets 20-episode renewal MTV has made it official: “The Osbournes,” the hottest show on TV, is returning for a second season of 20 new episodes. The negotiations leading up to the deal were, by several accounts, just as idiosyncratic…
CBS affiliates: it’s thumbs up for news lead-ins this fall At the only large scale network affiliates meeting held this year, Leslie Moonves, CBS president and CEO, unveiled the network’s fall lineup Wednesday and delivered what some affiliates say are…
Brokaw to host ‘Nightly’ until 2004 Tom Brokaw will remain anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” through the end of November 2004, when Brian Williams will succeed Mr. Brokaw on “Nightly.” In the meantime, Mr. Williams, 43, will…
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BroadcastingLinda Sullivan to president and general manager, KNTV, San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland, from president and general manager, WRC-TV, Washington.Chuck Chiocco to general sales manager, WXTV, WFUT-TV and WFTY-TV, New York, from local sales and marketing manager, WXTV.Hillary Knowlton to human resources…
Red flags are going up on Wall Street in response to a 43 percent decline this year in cable television stock prices, which industry analysts attribute to largely unfounded concerns about rising debt, costly system upgrades and the slow rollout…
Either you believe or you don’t. It’s that simple.Take this account, for example.Some years ago Alan and Sandra went to see the psychic James Van Praagh. They were very skeptical of his ability to communicate with the dead, he wrote…
NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker now rules the West Coast for the Peacock Network. He has added responsibility for NBC Studios, NBC Enterprises and the NBC Agency to the Entertainment duties at which he’s proved so adept in the last…
“From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California: Good evening, I’m Jerry Dunphy.”For almost half a century, newscasts on Los Angeles television stations opened in this manner. Jerry died Monday, May 20, as the result of a…
Veteran anchor and Los Angeles icon Jerry Dunphy died May 20 after suffering a heart attack the previous week. Possibly the oldest main anchorman at a local television station at age 83, he anchored in Los Angeles for 42 years,…