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AOL Time Warner may have lost to Comcast Corp. in its bid for AT&T Broadband, but it could still walk away a winner by squeezing a long-sought-after cable carriage agreement for its AOL online service on its rival’s dominant systems.The…
Prime Communications, a Boston advertising agency, says AT&T Broadband barred Prime from buying ad time on some of AT&T’s cable systems, a move that would force Prime’s auto-dealer clients to purchase time from AT&T directly.The allegations, contained in a little-noticed…
Even though the U.S. Hispanic market is growing at a rapid pace, the Hispanic Television Network is having trouble staying alive.“I’ve told my wife 14 times in the last nine months we’ve been here that we are through, and yet…
Allen to produce King miniseries for CBSByron Allen is developing a four-hour miniseries for CBS Entertainment based on the autobiography “My Life With Martin Luther King Jr.,” written by the civil rights leader’s wife Coretta Scott King. “After 14 years…
Sinclair Broadcasting President and CEO David Smith is clearly an innovative thinker, as evidenced in Electronic Media’s interview with him in the Dec. 31 issue, and we applaud his bravado.But we think he’s wrong on two subjects.First, when talking about…
When it comes to the treasures being mined by syndicators for the fall season, Katz Television Group Programming believes it has the map to the gold.The company’s annual review of the upcoming syndication landscape for more than 350 stations reveals…
Weekly hours have seen little action the past few seasons, but with some estimates projecting as many as a third of the weekly barter hour time slots opening up this fall, some distributors in pursuit of that real estate-particularly independents…
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Telemundo Network, which is in the process of being acquired by General Electric’s NBC, is embarking on several synergistic, shared programming efforts with NBC and the Public Broadcasting System.Shared efforts with NBC include repurposed windows for Telemundo’s upcoming “Billboard Latin…
“We bought two Mac G4s. They’re relatively inexpensive, and our artists are using them to create fantastic-looking graphics and animation.”Larry Perret, news director, KCOP-TV (UPN), Los Angeles“Scripps Networks Online purchased an Edit Suite for online distribution. It has the capability…