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The first week of sweeps saw audiences going out of their way to find off-network and relationship fare as rookies in both genres hit all-time highs, while veterans found their own best scores of the season, according to Nielsen Media…
Next chapter: Jack Welch, promo starWhen CNBC announced that Jack Welch, best-selling author and ex-chairman of parent company General Electric Co., was going to become a recurring co-host on “Squawk Box,” it said Mr. Welch could appear once per fiscal…
Fox Broadcasting’s announced $909 million sports write-down is evidence the company grossly miscalculated the value of its sports fare to advertisers and viewers in the face of a dramatic sea change in TV sports economics.No one forecasted the magnitude of…
Last week’s appeals court ruling axing the broadcast-cable cross-ownership rule-and casting doubt on the future of the 35 percent TV station ownership cap-was so intensely critical of the Federal Communications Commission and its ownership regulations that some observers are pronouncing…
“I always thought Alison Stewart, who until recently co-hosted ABC’s overnight news show, had an engaging mix of smarts, hipness and grounding in the traditional TV news/ journalism mix that all the cable news channels seem to be aiming for.”Eric…
If you think media consolidation has already gotten out of hand, wait till you see the next round of acquisitions. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington may have opened the floodgates last week when it scrapped the ban on…
Miami’s WTVJ launches 4 p.m. newscastNBC-owned WTVJ-TV, Miami, is scheduled Monday to launch the market’s only 4 p.m. newscast-a one-hour broadcast that will also be the market’s only news show anchored by three people: Jackie Nespral, Trina Robinson and Michael…
Investors didn’t argue last week with the logic of veteran Lehman Brothers analyst Holly Becker, who has downgraded her rating on AOL Time Warner, warning of negative to marginal growth of its Internet service.And AOL Time Warner executives didn’t even…
Video-on-demand appeal rises as age fallsCable operators should focus their pitch for video-on-demand on those viewers most likely to order the service-male teens and women 18 to 34, according to the Yankee Group.The technology research and consulting firm’s Digital Home…
BroadcastingTerry Ferber to traffic manager, WBZL-TV, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, from assistant traffic manager. Also, Lauren Levius to account executive, from sales account executive, Harrington, Righter & Parsons, New York.Rick Henry to president and general manager, WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, from president and general…