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S.F. stations tout ratings after changeGranite Broadcasting-owned KNTV in San Jose, Calif., which became an NBC affiliate on Jan. 1, will become an NBC-owned station in the second quarter and will rebrand itself NBC3-because it is Channel 3 on AT&T…
EchoStar Communications may indeed have a good reason for wanting to drop the ABC Family Channel from its DISH network satellite service, but we have yet to hear it.Until Jan. 10, there is a court order preventing EchoStar from dropping…
New York television stations are working together to find a permanent location for their shared antenna tower, which was lost when the World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists Sept. 11.In mid-November, the stations, through their joint organization called Metropolitan…
“I think that the nation is now in a period of forced maturity, and that is quite naturally being reflected in local newscasts. In Los Angeles, where I live, the frivolous and the trivial still thrive, but now there is…
HSN cuts 115 positions; many offered other jobsApproximately 115 positions at the Home Shopping Network have been eliminated in what a spokesman characterized as a companywide “consolidation.” However, the spokesman for the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based company disputed the term “layoff,”…
Sony picks Digital Island to run Web siteSony Pictures Digital Entertainment has selected Digital Island’s 2Way Web Services to manage its Web site, www.sonypictures.com. The site offers visitors video clips of its films and TV shows and has a Sony…
History does not record whether the journalistic tradition of rating the year’s 10 best and worst TV shows/movies/books/and so forth was inspired by David Letterman’s Top 10 List. More likely it was the brainchild of an anonymous features editor who…
When it comes to dollars and demos, color the Peacock Network green, flush with big-bucks adult viewers of all ages.In prime time, “NBC has the highest average median household income of any network among virtually every adult age segment and…
Many local station executives prospecting for dollars in a soft advertising market clearly expect-and get-cooperation from their stations’ news departments when they have “sales requests” that could benefit nontraditional, or nonspot, revenue development.Those same executives are looking increasingly at nontraditional…
Title: Jim DeFilippis, VP of engineering, News Technology Group, a unit of News Corp., the parent company of Fox.Background: Mr. DeFilippis joined News Technology Group, a division of News Corp. that primarily works on technology issues for the Fox TV…