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Changes brewing for the 2002 syndication season could mean the cancellation of “Howard Stern” and an added dose of Regis Philbin.King World Productions may be developing a late-night series designed to replace airings of “The Howard Stern Radio Show” on…
Jeez, I’m cranky. Even for me. But I seem to have a lot of company. People are just incredibly ticked off. They’re alternately irked and furious. These are times that really try men’s souls, and women’s too. We’ve never lived…
Disney-owned ABC and Warner Bros. Television think they’ve hammered out a future “marketplace template” for repurposing current TV shows on cable networks with their deal for midseason show “The Court.”Disney has obtained rights from producers Warner Bros. Television and John…
The drawing power of “Reba” on The WB presents network executives with an enviable quandary: The freshman sitcom’s broadened appeal in adults 18 to 49 leaves them searching for other big-tent family shows.In fact, with the Reba McEntire-led multigenerational sitcom…
It’s time to make the measuring of Hispanic viewers much simpler, according to a number of advertising agency executives.Currently, Hispanic viewers are included in both the National Hispanic Television Index and the National People Meter service (the National Television Index),…
The White House was said at deadline to be nearing a decision on naming a candidate to fill the Democratic vacancy at the Federal Communications Commission. Leading the pack was Jonathan Adelstein, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle,…
A 3-year-old company called WOW Digital TV is going to use Salt Lake City residents to road-test a set-top box it believes can be a cheap shortcut to the digital Promised Land. For a price likely to run around $200…
Sinclair Broadcast Group last week said it had helped develop and test a new digital TV data system the government could use during national emergencies.But there’s a catch: To ensure that it works, Sinclair representatives recommended that the government authorize…
GOP Sen. Conrad Burns is fond of saying there’s a lot of dirt between light bulbs in his home state of Montana.Protecting the constituents who dot his expansive, rugged state has always meant siding with rural interests over urban ones…
The boyish-looking Kevin Martin, one of the newer regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and one of its youngest ever, is careful and guarded when he answers questions from the press.So it was a little surprising when the normally staid…