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Markey: Legislation needed to help DTVWashington-An influential House lawmaker told television industry officials late last week that legislation may be needed to get the digital TV transition back on track. During a Thursday meeting with TV and electronics industry executives,…
The beleaguered fourth-quarter advertising market was looking up ever so slightly before the United States began retaliatory bombing of Afghanistan on Oct. 7. But in today’s ever-shifting ad landscape, that was a long time ago.Wartime advertising is proving to be…
David Armour, a veteran producer with experience on the “Ricki Lake,” “Queen Latifah” and “Montel Williams” talk shows, has been named executive producer of “The Ananda Lewis Show” as distributor King World Productions moves to refocus the freshman talker toward…
Don’t tell its star’s jealous TV brother Robert, but “Everybody Loves Raymond” is being widely embraced by local TV viewers in the show’s off-network debut, according to the latest weekly Nielsen Syndication Service ranking report.Making its first showing in an…
Hot on NBC’s development slate is a new reality series, “Truth or Dare,” from Madonna’s Maverick Productions. NBC reality guru Jeff Gaspin is also making an initial commitment to another push-the-envelope pilot, “Threesome.”Just as NBC has altered conventional wisdom about…
A not-so-ha-ha-ha-HalloweenEven as the country is urged to get back to normal, there are constant reminders that “normal” is being redefined on a daily basis. Case in point: “Today’s” annual Halloween costume brawl featuring scads of everyday folk gathered outside…
ABC signs video-swapping deal with Al Jazeera ABC News on Thursday signed a nonexclusive deal to swap video and share resources with Al Jazeera television, the Qatar-based news organization that has suddenly become famous as the preferred outlet for Osama…
Wallace Seawell photographed the portrait of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz used on the cover of the Oct. 1 issue of Electronic Media.
Electronic Media Television will air a special 45-minute program on the news business and the Radio-Television News Directors Association this week via satellite and on the Internet. EM’s RTNDA News TV Special Report will be anchored by Todd Magel, anchor-reporter…
Columbia TriStar pulls NATPE floor plansAdding to the half-dozen or more syndicators to pull out of the upcoming NATPE convention, Columbia TriStar is the latest of the major studios to scrap its plans to take booth space on the exhibition…