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Citing financial duress, the executive committee of the Association of Local Television Stations last week approved a plan to pull the plug on the organization, sources said.The proposal is subject to a vote of the organization’s full 17-member board of…
The war between the National Association of Television Program Executives and a number of major studios, led by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution President Dick Robertson, may have been inevitable, but it needs to be resolved soon. Last week’s NATPE…
How ironic: With production costs still escalating for prime-time series on the major broadcast outlets, it may be their arch-enemy, cable networks, that save the economics of producing TV series.Increasingly, the vertically integrated studio conglomerates with large cable network portfolios…
Television stations will need to collectively negotiate with cable operators, seek program-access safeguards, better leverage their local ties and bond more with broadcast networks if they want to survive more deregulation and deteriorating economics.That was the consensus of companion panel…
Cable’s SoapNet is bubbling with programming and multiplexing plans, including one for a Spanish-language soap-opera network that might be called TelenovelaNet.“We think it’s a natural for us,” said Deborah Blackwell, the network’s general manager. The network, part of the ABC…
As a former deputy director of legislative affairs for President Clinton and a longtime Democratic operative in many other posts, Susan Brophy is viewed as the kind of effective lobbyist the world’s largest media company needs in the nation’s capital…
This is the diamond jubilee year of a Bing Crosby movie called “Holiday Inn.” It had nothing to do with the motel chain, which had not yet been founded. In fact, highway accommodations were still being called not “motels” but…
Intertainer closes $15 million in fundingIntertainer, an entertainment-on-demand broadband service, secured the first closing of a Series E round of funding last week. The company has received $15 million in total additional funds from Thomson Consumer Electronics and Microsoft Corp….
Ware staying on at UPN A memo from CBS Television President/CEO Leslie Moonves circulated to UPN staffers Friday confirmed that Adam Ware, chief operating officer of UPN, is staying on with the network. UPN and CBS officials could not be…
Posted Thursday, Jan. 24, at 1:24 p.m.; last updated at 4:50 p.m. Hart, Berman promoted at Paramount Confirming previous speculation (EMonline.com, Jan. 11), Paramount Television Group has undertaken a restructuring of network TV production and distribution divisions, with longtime executives…