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Above, at Country Music Television’s CMA Awards party on Nov. 7 in Nashville are, from left, CMT’s Kaye Zusmann and Ann Sarnoff, Keith Urban, Natalie Maines, Sheryl Crow, CMT’s Chris Parr, Martie Maguire and CMT’s Brian Philips. In left photo,…
As Americans head home for Thanksgiving, a coalition of marketers, media companies and the U.S. government will initiate a program of support for American military personnel who will be missing from holiday tables.An ad campaign aimed at sending messages to…
Whiting named CEO of Nielsen Media ResearchNew York-Susan Whiting has been named president and ceo of Nielsen Media Research, effective Jan. 1. Ms. Whiting, 45, has been president and chief operating officer since May. She succeeds John Dimling, who is…
Will somebody please buy DirecTV already? Let’s get this show on the road. Or in the sky. Or whatever the operative cliche is. I’m asking not as a critic, not as a distinguished and widely adored member of the press,…
In what could be an unprecedented windfall for TV stations-and a major boost to wireless communications-broadcasters may soon be free to sell or lease their frequencies for non-broadcast purposes.As it stands, Federal Communications Commission rules essentially limit broadcast channels to…
Is UPN becoming the WB slayer?Midway through the November sweeps, the battle for market share between the two is one of the more heated contests.UPN’s across-the-board increases in the demographic ratings has the network looking to exploit younger adult losses…
CBS had three extra minutes of prime time to sell to advertisers on its popular Thursday night lineup last week-and it had nothing to do with squeezing programs with a Time Machine. Instead, CBS ad sales can thank the producers…
* “Let’s try to fix what’s broken in local news” (EM, Nov. 12) was by Andy Still, news director of WYFF-TV in Greenville, S.C.* In “Station offers live feed on Net of murder trial” (EM, Nov. 5), WCAU-TV was the…
What it is: A quad split processor from Miranda MTI, based in Glendale, Calif. The product was introduced at NAB 2001.What it does: Tango takes four standard-definition video signals and displays them jointly on a single monitor. There is no…
Title: Joint managing director/chief strategy officer, Tapestry, Bcom3 Group’s new multicultural media agency.Recent interesting deal: “Purchase of the Mexico-Honduras [soccer] game on Telemundo. This is the final game that will determine whether or not Mexico will qualify for the World…