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Where Trekkies and politics meetIf you’re a Trekkie, you’ll want to beam right over to the TNN booth, where Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”) will be signing autographs and posing for pictures. If you’re a…
As everyone from programmers to financiers and executives to engineers gathers in Chicago for Cable 2001, the 50th annual convention hosted by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, the industry has rarely seemed so full of promise-much of it technological-or…
Psychics may be all the rage in the syndication development ranks this year, but TV viewers can expect a whole lot of sex as well.A potential plethora of holes in the fall 2002 schedule has opened up studios’ development slates,…
Only a couple of weeks ago NBC President Robert C. Wright was all in a lather about the fact that HBO’s “The Sopranos” contains depictions of violent crime. He sat right down and wrote the world a letter.On Monday night,…
LIN Television last week completed a multipronged $1 billion refinancing that will ease its debt payments and covenants over the next several years as it struggles with the economic squeeze that has plagued most broadcasters.Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a…
A new reality show will attempt to catch viewers for one of the netlets as one person narrows down a handful of potential partners as a date progresses. Sound familiar? Well, it’s not. The WB is readying “Elimidate Deluxe” for…
Bill Kurtis, the one-time broadcast-network journalist who bet early on the possibilities of long-form cable documentaries-and thereby became one of the most visible faces of cable docs’ current golden age-is placing a new wager.This time he’s betting on the future…
ABC is taking its affiliate act on the road for five days and expects the turnout to be triple the number of affiliate body members that had been expected to attend the annual summer convention, which was canceled due to…
The May ratings swoon continued to wear down syndicators last week as virtually all syndicated programs took hits from declining HUT levels while cable lured away other sets of eyeballs. But that didn’t stop several series from making an impact…
News Corp.’s timingWith Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., now chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, sources speculate that News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch may be having second thoughts about a recent decision to hire Mike Regan to head the company’s government…