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Fox affils get sales tip at seminarsFox affiliates across the country will give tips on selling the network lineup-and updates on the network’s 2002-03 lineup-when Fox Broadcasting stages sales seminars in eight cities in June. The three-day blitz will find…
Reruns of “The X-Files” and “Roswell” are coming to the Sci-Fi Channel.“X-Files” is expected to debut this October. The eight-year deal calls for a shared window with TNT. The 202 “X-Files” episodes will be exclusive to Sci-Fi during Monday-through-Friday prime…
The Napsterization of television is happening bit by bit, megabyte by megabyte, and the time is now for producers, distributors, networks, engineers and lawmakers to plan the industry’s next move.Even without widespread adoption of digital TV, watchable copies of television…
Most media-industry observers believe the Federal Communications Commission will soon repeal its rule prohibiting single ownership of a broadcast TV station and a newspaper in the same community.This is a dangerous moment for American democracy.Repeal will dramatically accelerate the country’s…
There’s nothing like suspect financial disclosures-amid the heightened threat of a Mideast war and oil crisis-to dash already fragile investor and media company optimism about a gradual economic recovery.The reporting and accounting debacles that sent Adelphia Communications stock plummeting more…
ABC affiliate WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, has taken a bold step to add nontraditional advertising revenue to its coffers. The station is doing live remotes and producing half-hour infomercials on local advertisers.“We’ve just started doing this last year, and it’s been very,…
While the words “young demos” seem to be the governing phrase at the network level, stations around the country still believe in having local news icons-anchors who have been part of the market for years and have high visibility-to help…
Susan Sarandon will star in Sci-Fi Channel’s “Children of Dune,” a six-hour miniseries that is a sequel to the “Frank Herbert’s Dune” miniseries that aired on Sci-Fi in December 2000. Ms. Sarandon is repped by ICM. … Burke Moses will…
ITV package aimed at cable operatorsThree technology companies have partnered to create a comprehensive cost-effective interactive television package for cable operators that will include video-on-demand, an interactive program guide, e-mail and games. TV Guide Interactive will offer its new TVGI2001…
With almost 70 percent of commercial TV stations having told the Federal Communications Commission that they won’t be able to meet the agency’s buildout deadline for digital television, NAB President and CEO Eddie Fritts said consumer demand–not regulatory fiat–will dictate…