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The assistants to major TV executives were a nervous lot last week as the anthrax scares continued.“They haven’t been giving us mail to open,” said the assistant to a top CBS executive in New York. “It comes to my desk…
Columbia TriStar Television’s exit from network TV series development has left boutique production companies that have deals with the studio wondering about their fates.While Sony Corp. USA head Howard Stringer said last week that Columbia TriStar will abandon future program…
These aren’t your father’s Olympics. At least that’s the message NBC wants to get across in its promo campaign for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.The campaign will emphasize extreme sports in an effort to attract more 18- to…
It’s the money, stupid.That’s the message sent loud and clear last week when Columbia TriStar Television said it was terminating any future TV development with the broadcast networks.“In the post fin-syn world, we were supposed to make it up on…
Hollywood enlisted in terrorism fightLos Angeles-Representatives of the Bush administration met with a group of network and studio executives in Los Angeles last week to explore how Hollywood could most effectively aid the war against terrorism. “It was a good…
Normal. You know about “normal.” That’s the place back to which we are all supposedly trying to get. It could be that normal is overrated, at least when it comes to television programming. Maybe we should aim higher than normal,…
Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings has accused FCC Chairman Michael Powell of overstepping his regulatory bounds. In what may be political payback for all the heat former Democratic FCC Chairman Bill Kennard took from Republican lawmakers on this issue, Sen. Hollings,…
Fox shuts down long-form programming Fox is eliminating its long-form network programming unit-laying off all five people from the department-following the trend set by other broadcast networks that have drastically reduced their slate of made-for-TV movies and miniseries. A senior…
UPN signs affiliation dealsUPN signed several affiliation agreements last week. LIN Television’s full-power WNLO-TV, Buffalo, N.Y., will become a primary UPN affiliate starting Jan. 2, 2003, taking the affiliation over from current affiliate WNGS-TV. UPN also added Pegasus station WXMS-TV,…
As the largest provider of cable- and satellite-delivered premium movie channels, Starz Encore Group is well-versed in delivering quality content to a targeted audience: Its Starz Super Pak offers 14 themed channels with programming for all ages and interests. One…