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Diane Mermigas Text: A little good news goes a long way.The beleaguered media industry last week was quick to seize on a surprisingly upbeat reading from Peter Chernin, News Corp. president and Fox Entertainment Group chief executive, and then clung…
see publication for the following listings:Demographic ratings: Broadcast Prime Time, SyndicationNight-by-night Nielsen Prime-time ratings for the week of Feb. 25-March 3Ratings for the week of Feb. 25-March 3
While the ability to merge two TV stations’ news operations-and thus save money-has been a driving factor behind duopolies, some markets are running into a big hurdle: labor unions.Fox Station Group duopolies in Los Angeles and New York have yet…
With six months to go before the new fall season begins, syndicators are cleaning up details on upcoming fall series and are already butting heads for projects targeting the 2003 season.Already out of the gate for 2003-04 is a court…
As expected, the Olympics continued to drive down overall ratings for syndicated fare during the February sweeps. However, many programs held up better than some analysts expected, particularly court shows and newsmagazines.For the sweeps period through Feb. 24, weekly series…
The NBC-HBO spat over movies based on the 1998 slaying of gay youth Matthew Shepard took an unexpected twist Friday when it was learned that NBC had accused HBO’s “The Laramie Project” of making unauthorized use of NBC News material.Within…
Scatter prices surge in second quarterLos Angeles-Television scatter-market ad pricing surged dramatically for the second quarter, with broadcast networks seeing brow-raising 8 percent to 15 percent program price hikes, Advertising Age reported. But the big question is whether the gains…
Sen. Hollings takes Chairman Powell to taskSenate Commerce panel Chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., scolded Federal Communications Commission head Michael Powell at a hearing last Thursday, accusing him of ignoring Congress, sidestepping agency rules and failing to regulate in the public…
The prime-time national-broadcast TV environment continues to deteriorate, and clutter is at an all-time high.That’s the top-line conclusion of “Clutter Watch 2001,” MindShare’s examination of clutter-nonprogram material, commercials, promos and PSAs-on the four biggest broadcast networks for calendar year 2001.ABC…
ABC has been taking a lot of heat lately for turning its back on “Nightline,” but the truth is the network has done more than either of its Big 3 rivals to find a late-night market for intelligent, issue-oriented television.The…