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Writers Guild, ABC reach contract settlementNew York-After four months of negotiations, the Writers Guild of America, East, and ABC reached an agreement Friday, with a proposed three-year contract that calls for across-the-board salary increases of 3 percent each year. It…
At least nine national cable networks have turned down a potentially lucrative-though controversial-ad schedule from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. No national cable networks are known to have accepted the ads.The 10-day flight is an image campaign from the…
ABC’s ‘Bachelor’ takes bite out of competitors NBC’s powerhouse Must-See TV lineup took Thursday in adults 18 to 49 in typical fashion, but ABC’s “The Bachelor” and Fox’s replay of “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” took a bite out…
Winkler, Levitt to executive produce ‘Hollywood Squares’ King World Productions will turn to Henry Winkler and Michael Levitt as its new executive producers for “Hollywood Squares.” The duo will produce episodes to begin airing in the series’ fifth season, which…
Meredith Vieira to host syndicated ‘Millionaire’ Just when everyone thought Buena Vista was going to zig with Jeff Probst on the upcoming syndicated version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” the company has instead zagged and now appears to…
FCC to auction over-the-air multichannel licenses The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday announced that it will use auctions to award licenses for a new service that offers multichannel video and broadband Internet over the air. Northpoint Technology, which wants to…
WNDS takes People Meter service in Boston market Nielsen Media Research has signed a new client in the Boston market, which will be the first market in the country to use local People Meters. Independent station WNDS-TV in Derry, N.H.,…
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The White House and top congressional lawmakers are turning up the heat on the Federal Communications Commission to postpone a June 19 auction of spectrum used by dozens of analog television channels.The FCC wants to free up the spectrum so…
Market vet gets border tunnel scoopLupita Murillo, veteran crime reporter at NBC affiliate KVOA-TV in Tucson, Ariz., broke a story last week about an underground drug tunnel found below the parking lot of a U.S. Customs office in border town…