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Fox, ABC split Sunday ratings wins The delayed season-opener of Fox’s regular Sunday night lineup took home adult 18 to 49 and 18 to 34 wins Sunday night, while ABC’s three-hour presentation of “Saving Private Ryan” gave the network broad-based…
Young Broadcasting Chairman Vincent Young has approached NBC about buying KRON-TV in San Francisco from him, sources say. Mr. Young declined to discuss the potential sale of his TV stations during an earnings call with analysts last week. Mr. Young…
Recently, a radio interviewer, thinking he could get a great “bite” from a leading Boston emergency room physician, reportedly asked: “How do you tell people to be safe?”Since there is no answer to that question, the doctor answered: “Stop smoking….
* In “KDKA cheating on spots” (EM, Nov. 5) Ray Deaver is the general manager at KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas, and chairman of the CBS Affiliates Association.* In “Station group asks FCC to force carriage” (EM, Oct. 29) WNYS-TV, which…
From left, Emmy Winners Patricia Heaton of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and Barbra Streisand meet the press backstage at the Shubert Theatre. on Nov. 4.“The West Wing’s” Bradley Whitford, at left, and producer Llewellyn Wells, Allison Janney and Janel Moloney celebrate…
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Nat “King” Cole was not the first African-American to star in his own TV show. Ethel Waters and Hazel Scott, to name but two, preceded him. But when Cole’s show debuted on NBC on Nov. 5, 1956, he was certainly…
To repurpose or not to repurpose.That is the question facing Showtime’s Jerry Offsay as he considers his choices for new series in light of the quickly changing economics of the business.By broadcast network standards, “Hit Squad” and “Gimme Shelter,” the…
As advertising sales remain stagnant, the broadcast networks are paring back prime-time program development for the 2002-03 season-in both comedy and drama-with commitments to about one-quarter fewer scripts than at this time last year.Through late last week, officials at TVtracker.com,…
`Philly’ toning it down, affiliates are toldNew York-“Philly” is going to lighten up and tone down its envelope-pushing language, ABC affiliate board members were told in a conference call last week.Alex Wallau, president of the ABC Television Network, and Lloyd…