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BroadcastingJohn Steckler to director of sales and marketing, KONG-TV, Seattle, from senior VP of sales and marketing, Shurgard Storage Center. Also, Carlyn Crawford to account executive, from account executive, KIRO-TV, Seattle; and Tim Grand to account executive, from account executive,…
Jill Brown, VP and director of media for the Asher Agency, said multiple partnerships in which two to three advertisers collaborate on a promotion are the “biggest” deals stations in Fort Wayne are doing now.One successful promotion is ABC affiliate…
Tough guy Dick Robertson, the Arnold Schwarzenegger of the syndication world, has unleashed some new collateral damage just weeks after delivering a direct hit on NATPE’s annual gathering in Las Vegas.Mr. Robertson is a veteran player, who like Mr. Schwarzenegger…
Shakespeare wrote-and Edward R. Murrow quoted the line while assailing Joe McCarthy-“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.” Yeah, well, easy for him to say. Today the fault may well be…
Price to become new leader of NATAS Los Angeles-Peter Price will be named president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, sources said, adding that the announcement could come as early as Monday. The position has been vacant…
CBS’s decision to run a two-hour documentary chronicling the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was not about profits.In fact, there was no bidding war for the incredible footage shot by brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet. Millions of…
Nielsen Media Research just can’t win. Under siege by upstart ratings services from Adcom and Arbitron, the company has been working to improve the accuracy of its measurement systems by introducing the People Meter into local markets. But its first…
`Starhunter’ finds U.S. distributorThe syndicated action-hour business, a one-time thriving market that has fallen on hard times, is about to get a boost with Western International Syndication’s new pact to put “Starhunter” on the air this fall. The domestic distributor…
Still early into the comedy pilot process for the 2002-03 season, the broadcast networks appear to have an increasing appetite for keeping series projects in-house. Of the 36 or so comedies firmed up for pilot production as of deadline last…
Starting Monday, Tribune-owned Baltimore Sun and Scripps-owned WMAR-TV, Baltimore, will launch a partnership in which they will share news content and eventually advertising.Advertisers will be able to buy ads with both at one time, and stories will be co-branded with…