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After this season’s pack of low-rated dating shows and last season’s glut of failed court and talk shows, the odds aren’t spectacular that this season’s game show trio of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” “$100,000 Pyramid” and “Weakest Link”…
To hear Roger King tell it, “Dr. Phil” will be the greatest show in the history of television when it launches in fall 2002. That’s a pretty tall order, but the chairman and CEO of CBS Enterprises and King World…
We’re MADD about some of the congressional response to NBC’s decision to air hard-liquor ads.Congressman Frank Wolf, R-Va., for one, in a Dec. 20 letter to top NBC executives chastising their decision, wrote, “It is a sad commentary that your…
Anne Robinson is the brittle but nonetheless tough backbone to the NBC network’s “Weakest Link.” So the pressure is on George Gray to carry the new syndicated version of “Link” and not be, well, the weakest link of the show.He…
“I don’t know what the hell I’m doing,” said David Friedman, an executive producer of NBC’s “Last Call With Carson Daly,” which launches at 1:35 a.m. (ET) on Monday, Jan. 7.Mr. Friedman is joking.He’s also giving a little graveyard whistle…
Influential members of the Senate antitrust subcommittee have major reservations about the planned $72 billion megamerger of Comcast Corp. and AT&T Broadband, which would create the largest cable company in the nation.“We have serious concerns about the impact that such…
Weather is important to Shreveport, La., ABC affiliate KTBS-TV, which is turning up the heat in the market’s forecasting wars with a 1 million-watt Doppler radar system, the most powerful in the country.KTBS also built a “Weather Lab” set around…
For TV station production manager Eric Amundson, 36, it’s been a catch-as-catch-can life. He’s been a fisherman, a member of the U.S. armed services and a furniture deliveryman.Now he’s about to lose his current job because one of only two…
NBC is facing mounting opposition in Washington over its maverick decision to air hard-liquor ads, setting the stage for a pitched battle with lawmakers that will carry into next year.When Congress reconvenes in late January, the network will face legislation,…
Cablevision cuts 600 jobs, takes $55 million chargeNew York-Cablevision Systems Corp., the big multiple system operator and programmer that serves 3 million households in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is cutting its work force by some 4 percent, eliminating…