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4Kids gets Fox blockLos Angeles-4Kids Entertainment signed a deal late Friday to lease Fox’s Saturday morning time slots for more than $26 million over four years, sources said. 4Kids, which produces the Kids’ WB series “Pokemon,” outbid DIC Entertainment, among…
Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., a leading critic of a Bush administration plan to dramatically restructure how the government reviews media mergers and other deals, has begun a dialogue with federal regulators on the proposal.The veteran senator played a key role…
Newly anointed ABC Entertainment President Susan Lyne is wasting no time trying to plug holes at the struggling network.She is already looking to her old contacts in Hollywood’s long-form production and New York’s literary communities to try their hand at…
HBO unveils Lewinsky, Giuliani specials: HBO will debut a documentary on Monica Lewinsky, “Monica in Black and White,” on Sunday, March 3, following the second-season premiere of “Six Feet Under.” Ms. Lewinsky burst into tears last week during the HBO…
Fox offered its affiliates unsold NFL inventory during the network’s wild card and divisional playoff weekends, providing affiliates were willing to share the wealth. The deal gave stations the option to take three extra 30-second spots in Fox’s Saturday and…
The end is out thereChris Carter, the creator of Fox’s long-running “The X-Files,” is bringing the 9-year-old drama to a series finale during the May sweeps as it marks its 201st episode. The longtime Sunday staple on Fox has slipped…
Kirk Kerkorian, the three-time principal owner of MGM, wants to cash in his chips on one of Hollywood’s last remaining independent studios-again.But his timing may be off.With the help of investment banker Goldman Sachs, the studio is accepting first-round bids…
Network and station executives, scrambling to develop new sources of income to help shore up shrinking profit margins, have set their sights on cable-specifically on trying to get compensation from the cable industry in return for letting cable operators carry…
Cable interconnects in the nation’s two largest markets, New York and Los Angeles, are discussing linking together so advertisers can make a single giant bicoastal local-cable buy.That plan for cooperation between New York Interconnect and L.A.-based Adlink will go forward…
If rituals such as NATPE and the upfront advertising market seem dysfunctional, it is because some of the most important underpinnings of the television industry are changing but have not yet translated into new ways of doing business.Media executives are…