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At a time when media companies should be aggressively budgeting for growth and expansion in 2002, they instead are fixed on anemic ad spending that won’t likely improve in the United States and elsewhere for a year.Just how much a…
While planning this week’s CTAM of New York Annual Blue Ribbon Breakfast, we searched for a topic that would impact industry execs from all facets of the business. The issue of bandwidth management quickly became our consensus choice.Programmers, who are…
Viewers in Boston are finding more surprises on the local news landscape.What was a once a stable, traditional market continues to evolve as the business of local television becomes a world of duopolies. CBS-owned WBZ-TV launched Boston’s only 7 p.m….
Court TV seeks overturn of banCourt TV has gone to court seeking to overturn the ban on televising state trials in New York. The cable network’s complaint, filed Sept 5 in New York state’s Supreme Court, seeks to have Section…
Talk shows continued to grab ratings headlines for the week ending Aug. 26 as a mixed bag of results sent two long-running series to new lows and one new series down-but allowed three strips to climb back up the charts,…
“All of our editors grew up [on] linear systems, and … none of them would ever want to go back to the old system. [Avid has] really elevated their work to another level. It’s not if other stations will go…
The word last week that Allison Bodenmann was leaving her post as president of the Syndicated Network Television Association was not good news for the beleaguered syndication business. Syndicators need to find a replacement quickly, and they need to put…
Pegasus duo defects from Fox to WBTwo Pegasus Communications-owned stations are leaving Fox to become primary WB affiliates. The WB said it is the first time Fox affiliates have defected to a younger network. WDBD-TV in Jackson, Miss., and WPXT-TV…
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to launch proceedings this week that could pave the way for additional consolidation in the cable TV industry by raising the cap on cable ownership.In an effort to check the clout of individual cable…
Off-network runs of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “The Practice” and the Fox Kids programming block will shift from Fox stations to News Corp.’s newly acquired Chris-Craft Industries stations in New York and Los Angeles.According to early schedules released by…