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A federal appeals court said Friday it may kill the 35 percent station ownership cap, a dramatic move-unthinkable to affiliates and watchdogs-that would likely trigger a massive wave of station consolidation by the major television networks.If the U.S. Court of…
Dean Valentine, president and CEO of UPN, has sued the network and is claiming he is owed up to $22 million based on a long-term incentive plan taking into account the past and future financial performance of the struggling, nearly…
A coalition of media groups-all with some ties to NBC-last week urged Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to drop his effort to get Peacock Network videotape that allegedly shows former GE chief Jack Welch attempting to influence NBC News’ presidential election-night…
Founded: 1991Key executives: Richard Cerny, president.What they do: Telecast Fiber Systems is the only manufacturer of portable and fixed fiber-optic systems for television broadcast production. “That’s what’s different about us,” Mr. Cerny said. “There are several fiber-optic companies that are…
AOL Time Warner gives AT&T a solid cable offer AOL Time Warner has privately made an offer to AT&T Corp. to merge the companies’ cable systems to create a publicly traded stand-alone entity with 25 million subscribers that would be…
see publication for the following tables.Demographic Ratings ( Broadcast Prime Time, Syndication )Night-by-night Nielsen Prime-Time Ratings for the week of Aug. 20-26Ratings for the week of Aug. 20-26 (basic cable ratings, top 10 basic cable network rankings)
BroadcastingLance Williams to sales manager, Chicago, Continental Television Sales, from account executive.Errol Gerber to general sales manager, WPWR-TV, Chicago, from local sales manager.John Trook to local sales manager, KOTV, Tulsa, Okla., from local account executive.Steve Cloy to national sales manager,…
The webcasting industry has found itself squarely in the crosshairs of lawyers over the last several months as legal battles surrounding the very future of this nascent medium have intensified in volume and number. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of…
The photo with “4 PBS stations join forces on news show” (EM, Aug. 27) depicted KCET-TV President and CEO Al Jerome. The photographer was Ken Howard.
How much broadcasters and other media companies that webcast sound recordings should pay artists and record companies is being determined deep in the bowels of the U.S. Library of Congress building by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, or CARP.The U.S….