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The big ad bargain of the TV season, when one compares actual performance to ad agency estimates, is The WB’s “Smallville,” which posted a whopping 84 percent overdelivery for advertisers. UPN’s new “Star Trek” show “Enterprise” was the second-best buy…
With “The Carol Burnett Show: Show Stoppers” special unexpectedly ranking as the most-watched entertainment program of the November sweeps, programmers are thinking family programming and rummaging through their vaults seeking fodder for more clip retrospectives.“We expected that Carol would do…
* In “NATPE pulls out of ’03, ’04” (EM Nov. 26), it was WDSU-TV, the Hearst-Argyle station in New Orleans, that first reported that NATPE had sent a letter to hoteliers canceling all room reservations for its planned conventions in…
AdCom Information Services, the local cable audience measurement service that claims Nielsen Media Research consistently underreports cable viewing and that its own methods are more effective, is adding two new markets, Sacramento, Calif., and Cleveland, bringing its total to five.Nielsen…
The Hallmark Hall of Fame will celebrate its golden anniversary this month, and with 210 presentations, 78 Emmys, 9 Golden Globes, 11 Peabodys, 24 Christopher Awards and 4 Humanitas Prizes behind it, the event-TV program series has much to pay…
What it is: E6100 from Tandberg, a digital electronic-news-gathering encoder. Introduced a year ago, the product began shipping in April. The E6100 is intended for mobile applications, such as broadcasting from a helicopter or other aircraft.How it works: The encoder…
“I would say that NATPE is a great organization, but the convention has clearly outlived its usefulness. I would love to see them reinvent themselves.”Steve Wasserman, general manager, KPRC-TV (NBC), Houston“I don’t think they have much of a choice. Everybody…
RightsLine, a Beverly Hills, Calif., company that makes licensing-management software for entertainment companies, is announcing a deal this week with IBM to integrate its software into the computer giant’s suite of Internet-based database and middleware applications targeted at Hollywood. Under…
Academy Award-winning director Delbert Mann cut his teeth during the Golden Age of Television. His best known TV work is live dramas aired in the late ’40s and early ’50s. But he holds a very special place for a show…
NATPE 2002Las Vegas, Jan. 21-24. Info: www.natpe.org. Sportel America 2002Miami, March 25-28. Info: www.sportelamerica.com. NAB 2002Las Vegas, April 6-11. Info: 800-342-2460 or www.nab.org /conventions.BCFM ConferenceOrlando, Fla., June 19-21, 2002. Info: www.bcfm.com.CTAM SummitBoston, July 14-17, 2002. Info: 703-549-4200 or www.ctam.com.