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War coverage rules to be released soon Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters Tuesday that he has reviewed proposals from Torie Clarke, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, governing media coverage of the impending war on terrorism. He said…
Kent to leave Charter Communications Jerry Kent, president and CEO of Charter Communications, the nation’s fourth-largest multiple system operator, has resigned from his positions and his seat on the board of directors and will sell his interests in the company…
In the wake of the terrorist attack on the United States, it’s hard to believe Americans once cared who would win “Big Brother 2” or whether Anne Heche is crazy. And it’s hard to believe that as recently as two…
Radio-Television News Directors Association President Barbara Cochran plans to send a letter on Monday to Defense Department officials urging them to grant the press as much access as possible to any impending wartime activities.As the United States prepares to respond…
With a new development and production company on board, New Line Television has pulled off an extremely complex trick given the current market conditions-escaping a near-collapse of its international backers.After losing well-cleared series such as “Matthew Blackheart” and “Hard Knox”…
The New York stations may not be back on track, but that hasn’t stopped the Fox stations and Twentieth Television from finding some early success as another disrupted season gets under way.Last year, the Olympics and the presidential election controversy…
Uncertainty seems to define the near-term future of the TV ad market, according to a number of prominent media executives.The “concept of conservative fiscal management” will be “taken to a much higher power than it might have been,” said Marc…
Dominoes continue to fall as Universal Television’s domestic and international sales forces have opted to pull out of the National Association of Television Programming Executives floor. Instead, the company will join a barrage of syndicators at the Venetian Hotel in…
Showtime Networks is developing a subscription video-on-demand service that will feature roughly equal portions of the cable pay channel’s original programming and recent theatrical film releases.“At this point it’s about half theatrical and half original, but that may change as…
FCC reports complaints about Howard Stern Washington-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said Friday that his office had received hundreds of complaints about remarks on Howard Stern’s nationally syndicated Infinity Broadcasting radio show Sept. 14 suggesting that New York prostitutes join in…