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Local sales are flat from last year, while national and regional ads are down between 10 percent and 20 percent in the Wausau-Rhinelander, Wis., market. But sales managers are hopeful that things will pick up by the end of the…
‘PrimeTime’ scores big with Condit interview Connie Chung’s interview with Congressman Gary Condit last Thursday may not have improved his image, but it did make ABC’s “PrimeTime Thursday” the most-watched TV program of the summer and the most-watched news program…
Affiliate lodges complaint against ABC ABC affiliate KEZI-TV in Eugene, Ore., has told the Federal Communications Commission that ABC is frustrating the best interests of the station’s viewers by refusing to allow it to start the network’s prime time an…
Rodriguez Named president at Univision Nets Ray Rodriguez, who has been president of Univision Network since 1992, has been named president and chief operating officer of Univision Networks, which encompasses all network operations at Univision, including Galavision and Univision Sports,…
Though two local all-news cable outlets in California are closing down, Time Warner Cable believes it is still a viable business.Time Warner will begin to roll out six more 24-hour cable news channels in markets where it has a large…
What new fall TV show are you most excited to see?“I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with `24′. Also really looking forward to … `Scrubs.’ I think it’s really outrageous-it’s got physical comedy in it, taking a real…
More than ever before, the 2001 syndication season looks like a game of chance.Distributors are avoiding the launch of celebrity-driven series, none of which have ignited the charts in recent years (think Martin Short, Roseanne and Cybill Shepherd). Instead they…
I am thrilled that the Federal Communications Commission has allowed Fox Television to acquire Chris-Craft, giving it 33 stations reaching 41 percent of the country and duopolies in Los Angeles, New York and Phoenix. This leaves poor Viacom with only…
Some station managers said the Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas, market is pacing flat from a year ago, while others said it’s slightly ahead of last year.According to BIA Financial Network, Waco-Temple-Bryan TV revenues were $31 million in 2000 and are expected to…
How bad was this year’s syndication upfront, and when-and why-will the TV advertising-market turnaround finally happen?Just ask the chairman of the National Association of Television Program Executives: “It’s absolutely the worst [upfront] in the history of syndication,” said Jon Mandel,…