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After a hot summer stacked with early clearances for 2002, the second wave of station deals in recent weeks has answered some lingering questions among syndicators-even as new puzzles appear.Tribune Entertainment’s “Beyond With James Van Praagh,” Twentieth Television’s “The Rob…
Audiences for the all-news cable networks have gotten bigger and younger since Sept. 11, and movie studios, apparel retailers and other youth-minded advertisers have begun to notice.But are the young demos and the advertisers who court them in cable news…
January 2002Jan. 8-10, SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies, sponsored by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, at the Fairmont, San Jose, Calif. Information: 800-542-5040 or www.scte.org.Jan. 8-11, 2002 International CES, sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association, at the Las Vegas…
As a former television program director, I am appalled by station receptivity to the sheer volume of advertising over the public airwaves. My missive today asks, Holy ring-around-the-collar, Batman, is anyone watching the store? Put another way, who’s guarding the…
When Comcast Corp. President Brian Roberts snared AT&T Broadband in a $72 billion stock and debt deal, he launched what could be a runaway train of media consolidation in 2002 despite economic hard times.“I think we take a deep breath…
Roots: Guy Pepper’s CNN sequelGuy Pepper, the director who helped put CNN on the map, has come back to give the all-news network a makeover for the new millennium. The 12-time Emmy winner is CNN’s prodigal poobah (technically, the title…
All eyes in TV broadcasting are on Tallahassee, Fla., these days–and for good reason.That’s the site of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s latest effort to push the edge of the TV station ownership envelope to the breaking point.The pioneering aspect of the…
Posted Friday, Dec. 28, at 10:30 a.m. (PT) Cablevision cuts 600 jobs Cablevision Systems Corp., the big multiple system cable operator that serves 3 million households in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut areas, is cutting its workforce by…
Posted Thursday, Dec. 27, at 11:45 a.m. (PT); last updated at 1:50 p.m. A&E launching series especially for repeats The new year will bring a new weekly programming banner to A&E Network, which is launching “A&E Network Studios,” a Thursday…
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 25, at 10:56 a.m. (PT); last updated Wednesday, Dec. 26, at 1:20 p.m. Court TV aims to televise terrorism trial Court TV has petitioned for the right to televise the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged “20th…