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Posted Thursday, Dec. 20, at 11:45 a.m. (PT); last updated at 4:40 p.m. ‘The Job’ back to work, ’20/20′ returns to Fridays on ABC ABC has chalked in the midseason return of “The Job,” a critically received single-camera sitcom starring…
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 12:15 p.m. (PT); last updated at 5:50 p.m. Comcast to acquire AT&T Broadband In a deal worth $72 billion in stock and debt, Comcast Corp. will acquire AT&T Broadband, creating the country’s largest cable operator…
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 11:25 a.m. (PT); last updated at 3:20 p.m. Whedon shepherding ‘Firefly’ pilot for Fox Joss Whedon, the acclaimed creator/executive producer of UPN’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and The WB’s “Angel,” is leaving the cemetery for…
Posted Monday, Dec. 17, at 10:45 a.m. (PT); last updated 2:30 p.m. NBC buys KNTV in San Jose NBC will immediately begin throwing its marketing firepower behind KNTV’s scheduled Jan. 1 switch to an NBC affiliate from a short-time independent…
Hallmark Channel’s Roy Cowan, left, Adelphia’s Ann Montgomery, Crown Media’s Paul FitzPatrick, Hallmark Channel’s Ron Garfield and Hallmark Channel’s Stacia Armstrong at the Western Show on Nov. 29.At left, Court TV’s Samantha Miller (that’s her as the Fire Department of…
As they search for signs of an economic recovery, forecasters have noted that the new year will bring an abundance of high-profile sporting events-including the Olympics and World Cup-that will flood the TV market with advertising opportunities and dollars.But sports…
Despite NBC’s extensive efforts to placate Washington last week before it announced it will permit hard-liquor ads on the network, there may be trouble brewing on Capitol Hill.Longtime media gadfly Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., urged NBC late Friday to reconsider…
* In a chart with “What went wrong with Paxson, NBC” (EM, Dec. 10), reruns of the NBC game show “Twenty One” aired on Pax TV in 2000.
ABCA TOWN CALLED BANANATouchstone script. Auspices: Werksman, Harry & Stanton, Gabrielle (W pilot); Suarez, Flody (EP). Logline: A dramatic series about a guy who moves to a small town in Australia to run a company after his life in the…
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association will ask the Federal Communications Commission next month to launch a review of agency attribution rules that define media ownership, NCTA President and CEO Robert Sachs said last week.Critics have long charged that the…