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A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has launched an all-out crusade to resurrect campaign finance reform legislation in the House, spelling trouble for broadcasters who strongly oppose provisions that would force them to sell political ad time at rock-bottom rates.Most broadcasters…
Partial nudity and covered basesCBS has piqued a lot of interest with the “Wolf Lake” promos warning of-or is it promising?-“partial nudity” in this sort of wolverine “X-Files.” What this cheeky columnist can tell you is that, yes, there will…
The cold war between CNN and Fox News Channel boiled over last week. The flash point: Paula Zahn.Fox had her. CNN wanted her. Fox fired her and posted the news on its Web site, which was stripped of all other…
KSPR-TV adds evening newscastABC affiliate KSPR-TV, Springfield, Mo., launches a 6:30 p.m. newscast today that is the only newscast in that time slot in the market. The newscast will be anchored by John Brown and Susan Harding. The station will…
Buena Vista pulls out of NATPEThe Mouse is exiting the NATPE house now that syndicator Buena Vista Television has officially opted to eschew the convention floor in January. The distributor has already cleared 2002 strip “Who Wants to Be a…
CBS, ABC prime HDTV programming pumpNew York-CBS and ABC upped the high-definition ante Friday with announcements that they will broadcast all prime-time comedies and dramas for the 2001-02 series in HDTV format. CBS is partnering with Panasonic and Zenith Electronics…
In the Hollywood corridors of power, few agents would have predicted onetime wunderkind Gavin Polone would be caught up in such mundane affairs as making sure that copy machines are repaired or negotiating for additional office space in Beverly Hills,…
Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone told the company’s investors Friday that AOL Time Warner privately has offered to merge its cable systems with those of AT&T Broadband.Although AOL Time Warner has broached AT&T about such a plan in the…
About the company: Irdeto Access designs, develops and markets end-to-end solutions to manage and protect content from unauthorized access in the television broadcast and Internet environments. The company is a subsidiary of international subscriber platform and software solutions group MIH…
Pauline Kael was the best critic of anything, ever. Her reviews were often more satisfying, and richer with ideas, than the movies she was writing about.Her death last week at the age of 82, after a long struggle with Parkinson’s…