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In an effort to stimulate demand for their services, Hollywood’s TV screenwriters last week urged the federal government to adopt new regulations that would restrict how many broadcast and cable networks a company can own and would limit use of…
Two influential Michigan congressmen who hold powerful seats on panels regulating the television industry could face tough primary battles this August.Assuming that federal and state courts in Michigan uphold a redistricting plan proposed by the GOP-controlled legislature and enacted by…
Tribune, Bahakel selling stationsTribune, which must divest a station in the Hartford, Conn., market, is selling WB affiliate WTXX-TV. The Federal Communications Commission is allowing Tribune to keep the Hartford Courant newspaper and one TV station, Fox affiliate WTIC-TV. In…
Sundance Channel plans to launch the Sundance Documentary Channel, a new cable channel devoted exclusively to documentaries.The channel, which does not yet have in place any carriage agreements with cable multiple system operators, will debut in the second half of…
If you put 10 people in a room and ask them what NATPE means to each of them, you invariably will get 10 different responses.For some, NATPE has been and should always remain a sales convention, an opportunity once a…
CNN prepares to king Larry againHints were starting to burble up last week that Larry King and CNN were, to borrow a boldfacer’s cliche, thisclose to announcing they had wrapped up negotiations on a new contract. Indeed, this Insider item…
As ratings started to levitate on Buena Vista series “Live With Regis and Kelly” just over a year ago, some skeptical industry insiders attributed the rising numbers to quick sampling of a new co-host and the prime-time game show guru….
The San Francisco market’s new NBC affiliate, KNTV, is exploring moving its transmitter to try to improve signal coverage.Many viewers in the northern part of the market lost their over-the-air NBC signal because KNTV doesn’t reach as far as the…
Ad sales are hot for winter sports, particularly for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo.The Olympics, which will be shared among NBC and its cable networks MSNBC and CNBC, are…
In the current ad economy, Shreveport, La., advertisers are going back to buying 15-second spots. According to Robert Pou of Gremillion and Pou and Associates, a Shreveport-based ad agency, local advertisers began turning to the half-sized commercials about a year…