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Football programming dominated a holiday weekend beset by low-rated reruns. For Monday and Sunday, networks carrying football led the ratings pack, while Friday and Saturday were marked by repeats and specials. On Monday night, Fox won the evening with the…
Noreen Welle, the communications VP for the Radio and Television News Directors Association, died Friday at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Md. She was 57. She had been battling multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood, for a year….
Bravo ordered a third season of “Top Chef,” which it bills as the top-rated food series on cable television.Season two of the show returns Wednesday night with a 70-minute episode featuring Ted Allen of Bravo’s “Queer Eye,” chef Robert Ivan…
Turner Broadcasting blocked EchoStar Communications’ Dish service from carrying the Court TV network in a dispute over carriage fees, prompting the satellite-television company to call Turner’s rate demands unreasonable.Turner, the Time Warner unit that holds networks including CNN and TBS,…
Office Depot on Board, Other Key Sponsorships Near
From IAG Research A gaze backward reveals this truth about prime-time broadcast program genres: Almost any format can succeed. At different times one genre has been more dominant-comedies about a decade or so ago, dramas circa 1983 and Westerns in…
AT&T and BellSouth merged Friday night shortly after the Federal Communications Commission gave its final approval to the $86 billion merger and a day after two Democratic commissioners wielding unusual clout extracted major concessions to win the deal’s OK. Even…
The player: Tom Burgess, founder and CEO of Boston-based Third Screen Media The play: Third Screen Media provides software that delivers ads to mobile phones and manages the entire ad cycle, from buying to reporting on the effectiveness of campaigns….
Eurocinema Extends Reach, Plans Marketing
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