15,322 Entries
Title: Vice president of sales and marketing for Innovacom Networks. The company develops, manufactures and delivers high-quality digital video communications solutions.Background: Prior to joining Innovacom in April 1999, Mr. Regnier was employed by IPITEK, where he was responsible for marketing…
Larry Perret has laid down the law at KCOP-TV, the UPN affiliate in Los Angeles. If it’s a weather story or a sports story, it has to earn a spot in the rundown.Mr. Perret, the station’s news director, has rejiggered…
Posted Friday, Nov. 2, at 10:30 a.m. (PT); last updated at 4:35 p.m. ABC’s ‘Bob Patterson’ gets the ax Add another name to the list of post-“Seinfeld” sitcom casualties. ABC has canceled the Jason Alexander-led sitcom “Bob Patterson” after five…
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 31, at 8:45 a.m. (PT); last updated at 5:20 p.m. ‘Court’ to be repurposed for secondary run on Disney cable channels For the coming midseason entry of the Sally Field-led drama, “The Court,” ABC and series producers…
Posted Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 2:30 p.m. (PT); update at 4:55 p.m. Emmy organizers focus on security “The show must go on” continues to be the rallying call for CBS’s telecast this Sunday of “The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards,”…
DirecTV to merge with EchoStar “We’ve made a $600 million bet that this deal will be approved,” EchoStar founding Chairman Charlie Ergen said Monday in response to questions about possible antitrust opposition to the $26 billion tax-free stock and cash…
Kraft Foods is poised to exercise options to cut up to 50 percent of its planned first-quarter 2002 TV spending as the country’s largest food company shakes up its marketing budget with an eye toward multimedia and cross-media platforms. The…
More people than ever are watching women’s sports on television, but the multimillion dollar question is: Can networks make it pay?Oxygen Sports is making a small bet that it can. The new women’s network is devoting about 9 percent of…
It’s an analog world after all.The National Association of Broadcasters executive committee last week quietly asked the NAB staff to pursue a new digital TV carriage scheme that would free cable operators from any obligation to carry broadcasters’ DTV signals…
Network entertainment chiefs making their appearance at the IRTS Luncheon on Oct. 24 are Stu Bloomberg of ABC, left, Gail Berman of Fox, Dean Valentine of UPN, Jordan Levin of The WB, David Poltrack (substituting for Nancy Tellem) of CBS…