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Host Rukeyser leaving PBS’s `Wall Street Week’Washington-Louis Rukeyser, the soft-spoken, witty moderator of the PBS series “Wall Street Week,” a Friday night institution for 32 years, will leave after the June 28 program, reportedly because he’s upset that producer Maryland…
NBC, this Bud’s for you.And make no mistake, that ain’t a compliment.We long have been advocates of allowing hard-liquor advertising on TV, including on the major broadcast networks.Thus, we applauded NBC’s decision last December to take ads for distilled spirits.And…
It was a tale of two worlds during Fox’s and ABC’s informal pre-upfront meetings with advertising executives in New York last week. The one common thread was the family theme, with Fox building on its “edgy” brand, while ABC is…
The first week out of the February book typically proves to be a rough bump in the course of the television season. But this year, several shows have managed to buck that trend, and one strip, “King of the Hill,”…
The Madison Avenue architect of the carefully crafted campaign to bring distilled spirits ads to broadcast-network television fired back at what he considers to be network-affiliate hypocrisy, political duplicity and industry timidity leading to NBC’s sudden decision to cease hard-liquor…
Leo Hindery, chairman of the just-launched YES Network, says the current standoff between the network and Cablevision Systems in New York is the result of consolidation.“The consequence of consolidation is that larger players get treated best, and they should,” he…
A few weeks out of the February sweeps and NBC’s Olympics juggernaut, scant few midseason series are getting strong initial sampling-although Fox could be the first to solidly plant some stakes.Judging from good early reviews and its ratings performance, the…
Legislation introduced late last week by Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., would require media companies to adopt standards to protect digital television and broadband content from Internet piracy or have the government do it for them.The bill gives the TV, movie,…
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Watchdog groups and at least one lawmaker are stepping up pressure on Congress to regulate all televised alcohol ads now that NBC has abandoned its short-lived policy of accepting hard-liquor spots.“MADD is calling on NBC and every other television network…