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Facing the stiffest challenges of his two-year tenure as Primedia chairman and CEO, Tom Rogers is pinning his hopes on a more aggressive video strategy to partly offset declining advertising revenues and hefty acquisition costs.“We don’t have to do it…
In a blow to the cable TV industry, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to launch proceedings this week giving new life to regulations that require cable operators to sell their programming to competitors.Under the so-called program access rules, cable…
‘Danny’ canceled in first ‘wreck’ of new season “Danny,” CBS’s new Daniel Stern sitcom — formerly under the development title “American Wreck” — became the first cancellation of the young 2001-02 season. A CBS spokesman confirmed that “Danny” had its…
Cablevision slashes 2001 forecasts Citing lower than expected advertising revenues, Cablevision Systems on Friday lowered is 2001 earnings forecast, sending its stock down 10 percent to $40 a share in midday trading. It also said it is evaluating financing requirements…
This month it will be 50 years since “I Love Lucy” appeared on television. It seems only a short while ago that we were writing our very first TV series and wondering if making candy would be a funny occupation…
see publication for the following tables.Demographic Ratings ( Broadcast Prime Time, Syndication )Night-by-night Nielsen Prime-Time Ratings for the week of Sept. 17-23Ratings for the week of Sept. 17-23 (basic cable ratings, top 10 basic cable network rankings)
I guess “Lucy” was an outsider. When I was a kid in 1953 watching “I Love Lucy,” she sure seemed like one to me. Already obsessed with the psychotic clown Clarabelle on “The Howdy Doody Show,” my next big show-business…
“I Love Lucy” came on in our house every morning at 9 a.m., or so it seems to me now. In memory, I associate it with the feeling of being pleasantly not at school. Perhaps I saw the small screen…
What can I say about Desi Arnaz?I do know that if I could speak to him now I would heartily thank him for providing one of the inspirations behind my novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” a book…
If endurance and timelessness are the hallmarks of a true work of art, then “I Love Lucy” would have to be defined as television’s masterpiece.Since its debut on CBS on Oct. 15, 1951, “I Love Lucy” has been part of…