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News item: Discovery Networks, including the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, is trying to delete, or significantly truncate, credits from its programs.Once this news became public, it set off pandemonium among Discovery talent. Last week an emergency meeting was called…
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Ad sales campaigns targeted toward the community have gotten the attention of local advertisers in Dallas.NBC-owned KXAS-TV held its second annual Health Expo in January and attracted 65,000 people to the free three-day event at the Dallas Convention Center. The…
Some prime real estate is available for the right star.Buena Vista Television and King World Productions are each seeking an A-list name to a fill high-profile seat on their respective game shows, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and “Hollywood…
FCC asks appeals court to review ownership ruleWashington-The FCC urged a federal appeals court to reconsider a decision that vacated a rule barring cable systems from acquiring TV stations in their markets. The court also ordered the agency to reconsider…
As the staff of Pie Town Productions prepares to move into its new San Fernando Valley office building, they see the transition as symbolic of the company’s next step up television’s evolutionary ladder.With series such as “A Baby Story” boosting…
You’re the old kid on the block. You have tradition, you have experience and even a certain degree of dignity. But at the moment, you’re getting your can kicked by sexy, noisy, upstart competition. What’s a cable news network to…
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s announced sale of two Indiana TV stations to Tribune Co. for $125 million cash is part of the company’s ongoing effort to divest nonstrategic stations, but hardly the start of an industrywide station sales binge, experts say.The…
George Wallace, left, and J. Anthony Brown at a Tom Joyner comedy series taping March 9 at Madison Square Garden in New York.At the TVB Annual Marketing Conference on March 26 in New York are, top photo from left, Warner…
What about Barry?That was the nagging question surrounding USA Networks Chairman Barry Diller as Vivendi Universal fumbled through a top management shake-up last week.Mr. Diller, who is working without a contract as chairman of the newly formed Vivendi Universal Entertainment,…