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NAACP again threatens network boycottThe NAACP last week released its own report on diversity in network television and again threatened to boycott one of the Big 4. “It appears increasingly likely that the NAACP may vote soon to employ a…
It’s crunch time for the NBA.The league is heading into the last season of its four-year, $2.64 billion contracts that were wrought in flusher times, when Michael Jordan drove the bull basketball market and the American economy was on an…
WorldGate, a provider of interactive TV solutions for the cable industry, has promoted Gerard Kunkel to president of the company. Mr. Kunkel was most recently senior vice president of strategic programs. He joined the company in 1997 as vice president…
Daly to host NBC’s `Later’Carson Daly of MTV’s “Total Request Live” has been signed as host of NBC’s talk show “Later.” The new three-year pact with NBC Studios, announced by Jeff Zucker, president of NBC Entertainment, will allow Mr. Daly…
“Iyanla” may not have torched the talk show landscape with its debut last week, but compared with the debuts of other talk shows in recent years, the new series isn’t exactly scraping the barrel, either.Not since “Rosie” debuted five years…
WPIX, Newsday join for mayoral debateTribune-owned WB affiliate WPIX-TV, New York, will produce and air a one-hour debate at 6 p.m. Aug. 28 between the Democratic candidates in New York’s mayoral election. This is the first time WPIX will produce…
With the upcoming syndication debut of the hit CBS situation comedy “Everybody Loves Raymond” on affiliate stations this fall, distributor King World Productions is also banking on the notion that “everybody loves reruns.”With a spate of recent off-net debuts underperforming…
So then! It turns out that the awesome bumbling brain trust that runs NBC (and in time may run it into the ground) has chosen the equally awesome and bumbling Carson Daly to be host of the long-running but little-seen…
Title: Chief technology officer for the Broadcast Solutions Division of Pinnacle Systems.Background: Mr. Kovalick, an engineer by trade, worked for Hewlett-Packard for 25 years in research and development, strategy and planning and product development. Pinnacle bought HP’s video server business…
Advertising & AgenciesKaren Coleman to senior vice president, North America management team, Starcom, from media director. Also, Jack Sullivan to senior vice president, from director of out-of-home unit; Kevin Gallagher to senior vice president, from director, local investments, Starcom Worldwide;…