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Posted Friday, March 8, at 4:30 a.m. (PT); last updated at 3:25 p.m. CBS bids $31.5 million to keep Letterman The bidding war for David Letterman, who currently earns a reported $30 million per year at CBS, is now up…
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Posted Thursday, March 7, at 3:45 a.m. (PT); last updated at 1 p.m. CNN looking at KoppelCNN is eyeing ABC’s Ted Koppel for its own newsbeat. The Atlanta-based all-news network’s Chairman Walter Isaacson would “love to talk” to Koppel about…
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Posted Wednesday, March 6, at 4:15 a.m. (PT); last updated at 4:15 p.m. MTV’s ‘Osbournes’ is the highest-rated series premiere in net’s history The opening episode on Tuesday night of “The Osbournes,” the new MTV series in which cameras follow…
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Posted Tuesday, March 5, at 10:30 a.m. (PT); last updated at 4:25 p.m. Diller gets bigger stake in Vivendi Universal Jean-Marie Messier is so pleased with the integration efforts Barry Diller is overseeing at the merging Vivendi Universal Entertainment that…
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Posted Monday, March 4, at 10:55 a.m. (PT); last updated 2:20 p.m. ‘The Court’ getting repurposed for cable Add “The Court,” ABC’s new Supreme Court drama starring Sally Field, to the ever-lengthening list of new broadcast series most likely heading…
The ballad of Dave and Ted
We’d all be rooting for the good guys if only we could figure out who the good guys are. Maybe this time there aren’t any. Maybe good guys generally are a fast-dying breed.David Letterman used to seem like a good…
Other investors also on healthcare trail
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe may be the biggest private equity firm that actively manages investments in healthcare services, but at least two others firms are active investors in providers.Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, Chicago, manages about $1 billion for institutional…
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Buck gets an agentNew York-While speculation swirled last week about who might replace Pat Summerall and John Madden as the lead NFL announcing team at Fox, one of the leading contenders, Joe Buck-who has not previously had an agent-signed with…
Fewer hours to sell in kids upfront
The $760 million kids TV upfront advertising market is being radically transformed by marketer consolidation. So while media sellers expect to realize slight program price increases this year, they’ll do it without the traditional, defined upfront rituals.“In order to have…
Late-night shake-up?
Not all ABC affiliates are applauding the network’s decision to go after David Letterman.“I have yet to hear one affiliate say they are disenchanted with having `Nightline’ as a companion to their late news,” said Bruce Baker, the Cox Television…