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A merger of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is not in the stars.“It never will be one organization. We do the same things, but we do different things,” said…
NBC affiliates in the Pacific time zone who had to argue long and hard to win network agreement for the Winter Olympics to be carried tape-delayed on the West Coast, were grinning last week like ski jumpers leaning into a…
The tail is wagging the Peacock again. Meaning that: At NBC, the network is apparently there to serve the promo department and not-as the good Lord intended-the other way around. And so while there is much to admire, visually at…
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., told Electronic Media last week that he may hold hearings on the advertising of hard liquor on television because of NBC’s decision late last year to permit such spots.The senator would bring renewed…
Dick Clark Productions purchased A pair of major investors-Mosaic Media Group and Capitol Communications CDPQ-have agreed to buy Dick Clark Productions for roughly $140 million in cash. Mr. Clark, who will remain as chairman of Dick Clark Productions, will be…
WFAA’s Shipp makes national wavesAfter his national exposure on “Nightline” last week, investigative reporter Brett Shipp from ABC affiliate WFAA-TV, Dallas, has been getting e-mail from colleagues around the country. He appeared to discuss a story WFAA broke Jan. 1…
The first weekend of the February sweeps revealed an even split between first-run and off-network weekly shows in the top 10 as series positioned themselves for ratings spikes with the second half of the season under way. The problem for…
In the chart with “Networks keeping comedy pilots in the family” (Feb. 11, 2002), the pilots for sitcoms “Life of the Party” (starring Nathan Lane), “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” (Nia Vardalos) and “Two Families” (from Chuck Lorre) are under…
“If there is a definition of ocean-front property, this is it,” said Viacom Television Stations President Fred Reynolds after his company agreed to pay $650 million in cash to cash-strapped Young Broadcasting for KCAL-TV, Los Angeles, the largest independent station…
“Here it comes again.”Jon Mandel is staring out the window of his 27th floor office at the small white single-engine plane that is flying low, circling and circling near the glass and steel towers of midtown. It buzzes the Citicorp…