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Posted Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 11:58 a.m. (PT); last updated at 5:15 p.m. NBC nails it, winning final Olympic week As expected, NBC, fueled by the final week of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, won its biggest weekly…
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Posted Monday, Feb. 25, at 8:15 a.m. (PT); last updated at 4:05 p.m. Kaczmarek walks off ‘Malcolm’ set Jane Kaczmarek, co-star of Fox’s “Malcolm in the Middle,” walked off the set of the hit sitcom two weeks ago in what…
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* In “Big-city news directors a diverse bunch” (EM, Feb. 18), Princell Hair is news director at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.* In “Dot-com executives plug back into cable” (EM, Feb. 18), David Kohl and Evan Sternschien’s pictures were reversed.# David…
Out & About
Sesame Workshop’s Gary Knell, left, and Elmo with New York City Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta.Adelphia’s Jean Akins, left, ESPN baseball expert Peter Gammons, former Red Sox manager Joe Morgan and Adelphia’s Todd Kuhn and John Bohn at a recent fund-raiser…
From the Louds to the louts
Where lies Lance Loud? The obits I read did not mention a final resting place for the restless young man who became one of the nation’s earliest so-called 15-minute celebrities and who died not too long ago at the age…
`Friends’ double-run debate
As NBC contemplated renewing “Friends,” the network discussed the possibility of rebroadcasting each new episode next season in two different time periods within the same week.The reason: To try to build a new night of series hits, according to NBC…
NBC will win sweeps, but UPN sees big gains
While NBC is guaranteed the gold in February sweeps, UPN is closing in on the silver for year-to-year sweeps growth.Fox is still second-ranked in adults 18 to 49, thanks in large part to its ratings spike from Super Bowl XXXVI,…
Ratings
see publication for the following listings:Demographic ratings: Broadcast Prime Time, SyndicationNight-by-night Nielsen Prime-time ratings for the week of Feb. 11-17Ratings for the week of Feb. 11-17
Report: PSAs air in worst daypart
Television broadcasters give away hundreds of millions of dollars of airtime each year for public service messages, but a new report says much of it is in the wee hours of the night.According to “Shouting to Be Heard,” a study…
Disney Channel opens ad door after 19 years
To eke out new revenue, the ailing Walt Disney Co. is selling advertising time on the Disney Channel, which for 19 years was an ad-free oasis of kid’s cable.The shift is bound to affect the already depressed TV kids advertising…