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The hard-liquor industry may be bloodied, but it’s not down for the count.That was the message last week of Peter Cressy, president and CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, who said his member companies are continuing…
CBS is not renewing its affiliation agreement with one of its strongest outlets, WJXT-TV, the dominant Jacksonville, Fla., station owned by Post-Newsweek.The rupture comes after two years of negotiation about compensation, which CBS intended to end, and other issues. The…
Twentieth Television’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and Columbia TriStar Domestic Television’s “The Steve Harvey Show” are in the running to become the first syndicated series to outperform their network counterparts in two ratings categories.So far this season, “Buffy” is earning…
“NBC should consider ‘Watching Ellie Drink Smirnoff.’ Just two little words added to the title could save a deserving show. And who could watch it while sober anyway?”Krystal Waters, general manager, KROC-TV (NBC), Unpleasantville“After seeing spots for Viagra, Milk of…
Al Trautwig, left, Curt Menefee and John Giannone announce the MSG Network’s new 24-hour programming.Procter & Gamble CEO John Pepper, left, and BET CEO Robert Johnson received United Negro College Fund awards on March 7 in New York.Arnold Schwarzenegger, left,…
Some of Louis Rukeyser’s comments from “Wall $treet Week” on March 22. He was dismissed after the show ended:Well, a funny thing happened to me on the way to the studio this week. I got ambushed.By the time I completed…
The Bush administration made a mistake when it changed the way media mergers and other corporate deals are reviewed by the government.Under the new policy, which federal regulators pushed through last month without consulting Congress, the Department of Justice takes…
Adelphia stock drops on news of debt, lossAdelphia Communications Corp. stock initially plummeted more than 30 percent to $14 a share last week after the company disclosed $2.3 billion in off-balance-sheet debt and an unrelated, wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss resulting in…
Denver-A year after community opposition stymied efforts to build a joint digital TV “supertower” on Lookout Mountain at the western edge of metropolitan Denver, most area broadcasters are backing a new plan being offered to Jefferson County officials and residents…
Be the first media buyer on your block to know how ABC’s 2002-03 development is taking shape.In a move that does for programming development what dedicated cable channels did for news viewers-reduce the waiting time for the news to kick…