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With Disney buying the Fox Family Channel and CBS boss Les Moonves hinting last week that his network may soon get serious about finding secondary cable windows for its series, the buzzword du jour in the TV industry is “repurposing.”Pinched…
Anchors away in BostonBoston’s NBC affiliate WHDH-TV has promoted weekend evening co-anchor and reporter Caterina Bandini to co-anchor of the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. She officially began July 25, although she has been trying out for…
The Federal Communications Commission last week conditioned its approval of News Corp.’s $4.35 billion acquisition of Chris-Craft Industries’ 10 TV stations on the media giant’s divesting enough of its new properties to come into compliance with agency ownership restrictions.But industry…
Despite all the affiliate talk about the importance of the right to pre-empt network programming to the survival of the nation’s independent local stations, actual pre-emptions are often spurred more by financial considerations than lofty First Amendment goals.At least that’s…
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Parents not using v-chipOnly about 17 percent of the 40 percent of parents in the United States who now own TV sets equipped with v-chips use the technology to block programming with sexual or violent content, according to a study…
I know a writer-producer who worked with Alan Ball on “Cybill” a few years back. Not long ago I asked him what he remembered about Mr. Ball. “Good writer but not spectacular,” he said. “Who’da known?”Who indeed? Mr. Ball astonished…
With last week’s retirement of Denis Curley after more than 15 years with the Ackerley Group, co-President Chris Ackerley was elevated to president.Mr. Ackerley, son of company founder Barry Ackerley, will be charged with bringing a more focused direction to…
CTAM’s 25th anniversary Summit was about much more than just connectivity of the high-tech kind-though a casual observer might have mistaken last week’s annual gathering of cable marketing executives in San Francisco for an engineering convention.Despite the displays of Internet-protocol…
ABC-the network that has received the most criticism from a diversity coalition-is now the first network to start an annual talent development grant program designed to nurture minority talent. Last week ABC handed out $20,000 each to 10 winners. The…