Ad-ing insult to injury
AOL is missing a bet. And this is not, day in and day out, a bet-missing operation. Still, it could scrounge up more dollars from customers if it found a way to run ads while you sit there at your…
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CNN, Fox News equally `fair and balanced’
How well has television news done in its post-Sept. 11 coverage? Has it been factual or opinionated, balanced or one-sided?A new study finds TV news coverage in general “more decidedly pro-administration” than newspaper coverage. And in the bitter war of…
WB adds hours on Sunday
The WB is finally expanding-to early Sunday evening.This, despite the fact that the network has the option in its affiliate contracts to add, next season, two hours on Saturday night-the only night of the week The WB doesn’t program.“That was…
Who Is News
BroadcastingAnna Shreve to VP, sales and marketing, KGW-TV, Portland, Ore., from director of sales and marketing.Lynn Bailie to VP, sales and marketing, WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C., from director of sales and marketing.Jennifer Roberts to account executive, WEWB-TV, Albany, N.Y., from director…
Product Spotlight: Avid Unity for News
What it is: Avid Unity for News, from Avid in Tewskbury, Mass.What it does: Avid Unity for News is a shared media network for broadcast news production that makes media available to any workstation connected to it in real time….
Satellite dream at an end
Chase Carey just got tired of waiting.The 48-year-old News Corp. veteran resigned as co-chief operating officer and president/CEO of Sky Global Networks, saying the stand-alone global satellite entity he was to have built out for the company is on indefinite…
At Press Time
Ware staying on at UPNLos Angeles-A memo from CBS Television President and CEO Leslie Moonves circulated to UPN staffers Friday confirmed that Adam Ware, chief operating officer of UPN, is staying on with the network. While Mr. Ware’s current contract…
ABC O&Os try to make room for `Caroline Rhea’
While Warner Bros. Domestic Television talk show “Caroline Rhea” was originally designed to take the time slots of “Rosie O’Donnell,” it could end up in late-night instead.At last week’s National Association of Television Program Executives convention, Warner Bros. announced that…
A new day Dawn-ing for UPN
Looking to build upon UPN’s unexpected double-digit growth spurts in the key female demographic ratings, the network last week named Dawn Tarnofsky-Ostroff, a senior programming executive at Lifetime Television, as president of UPN Entertainment. The first major management move since…
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* Due to an error by Nielsen Media Research, the Basic Cable Ratings chart for the week of Dec. 31, 2001 to Jan. 6, 2002, (EM, Jan. 14) omitted HGTV’s Rose Parade coverage (Tuesday, Jan. 1, at 11 a.m.), which…