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Women and minorities are moving more and more into key news management roles at English-language stations within larger markets, with Los Angeles and Chicago surpassing New York in diversity among news directors.The numbers of women and minorities serving in news…
Donnie Wahlberg has signed to play one of the lead characters in the cop drama pilot “Boomtown” for NBC. Mykelti Williamson has also signed on as a cast member. Graham Yost will serve as writer/executive producer. Jon Avnet will produce….
It looks like NBC is taking the “B.A.I.T.”Sister syndication arm NBC Enterprises has sold the upcoming weekly action series to the NBC owned-and-operated station group and to the Hearst-Argyle group. On top of that, the series looks likely to anchor…
ABC’s prime-time make-good situation has become so tight that the network has so far paid $1.2 million in “cash-backs” to select advertisers-and could make as much as $10 million in such rare cash payments by season’s end if its dire…
Sponsorships and creative ideas are two big sellers in the Seattle-Tacoma market.Matt Kopp, a media buyer at the Seattle office for ad agency DDB, said stations have been offering sales options with lower rates. “It’s been a trend starting last…
Everyone’s favorite “Friends” are leading a charmed life.In TV land, the NBC show has been revitalized with a new energy feeding off the story line of Rachel’s pregnancy. In real life, negotiations for a final season to wrap up the…
NBC, MGM go for `B.A.I.T.’Los Angeles-Just as NBC is considering a summer 2002 Saturday-night network platform to springboard the launch of “B.A.I.T.” into first-run syndication (see story, Page 2), NBC Enterprises has entered into a deal with MGM to serve…
Where have you gone, Ted Turner? CNN turns its lonely eyes to you.OK, it isn’t Simon and Garfunkel, and who among the 18 to 34 set remembers “The Graduate”? But with last month’s cable news ratings causing an earthquake in…
NBC and CBS may have firmed up their late-night schedules, but tensions are starting to build as ABC, Fox, UPN and syndicators weigh their options in the daypart.After word leaked out that Fox was pursuing Conan O’Brien for a late-night…
The broadcast lobby has slain its fiercest election reform dragon but left some small dragons unscathed.The National Association of Broadcasters’ battle last week to kill language in the Shays-Meehan campaign finance bill that forced television stations to sell political ad…