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Columbia TriStar’s television division may have undergone structural changes the past few months, but that hasn’t prevented the company from moving forward with two of its daytime staples, “Ricki Lake” and “Judge Hatchett.”“Ricki” fans likely breathed a collective sigh of…
News Corp. smarting from sports costsNews Corp. is taking a $909 million write-down in its fiscal second quarter for advertising revenue shortfalls it will realize during the years remaining on its NFL, Major League Baseball and NASCAR contracts. “You would…
Digital cable subscribers, compared with direct broadcast satellite subscribers, are less likely to own their own home and are more likely to be single. They are as a group younger and better educated than DBS subscribers. They also are more…
FCC ponders how to handle frequency requestsThe Federal Communications Commission last week launched proceedings to determine what to do when noncommercial broadcasters want to apply for new frequencies that haven’t been specifically reserved for noncommercial operations. The FCC originally wanted…
Sesame Workshop, creator of such brands as “Sesame Street,” “Dragon Tales” and “Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat,” has named Tamra Seldin VP of marketing, global consumer products and international TV distribution. Ms. Seldin will be responsible for developing product-marketing strategies…
Viacom’s $650 million acquisition of KCAL-TV in Los Angeles isn’t the only news on the long-dormant TV station front signaling an onset of deals and events that will reshape the broadcasting landscape.There is lots of activity occurring just below the…
`Jimmy Neutron,’ boy-oh-boy nomineeIf ever anyone ever truly has felt honored just to be nominated, it is the folks at Nickelodeon, which received its first-ever Oscar nomination in the Academy Awards’ first-ever Best Animated Feature category. If ever there were…
Memo to general managers: The world of television has changed forever … and the future is uncertain. But one thing is becoming clearer by the minute: If consumers can’t find your show, your TV station or your network … then…
In the TV business, where two occurrences of almost anything counts as a trend, the simultaneous return of three prodigal cable advertising sales executives from the outer reaches of cyberspace seems at the very least to constitute a no-confidence vote…
Warner Bros. to digitally distribute programmingWarner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution signed on with Pathfire to digitally distribute syndicated programming to stations. With Pathfire’s Digital Media Gateway, stations will no longer have to grab programs off satellite feeds at specific times….