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The stars were shining this May sweeps as the weekend hours wrapped up the book with a slew of winners across the board, according to Nielsen Media Research. For many, such as “Xena: Warrior Princess” and “Baywatch Hawaii,” this period…
IIs there anyone alive who will really be all that shocked and amazed if it turns out that the producer of the “Survivor” shows on CBS did a certain amount of manipulation of the contestants so as to affect the…
Some mutants set to hit the TV screen this fall have finally shown their faces.Tribune Entertainment signed a former supervillain to become the moral center of the drama “Mutant X.” The syndicator has cast John Shea, who played Lex Luthor…
Navigating the multichannel universe can be a dizzying experience. If one clicks a remote through hundreds of cable or satellite channels quickly enough, one can at times feel a bit like a cosmonaut rocketing through space at the speed of…
Mick Schafbuch quietly closed two books at the CBS affiliates convention in Las Vegas last week.It was the last such convention for the man who was first elected to the affiliates advisory board in 1981 and was, when he was…
Now it’s the buyers’ turn.The ad agencies have responded to the broadcast networks’ recent glitzy upfront presentations by producing in-house share estimates for each prime-time fall-season show. (Electronic Media has surveyed the agencies to produce a “consensus” share-estimate chart averaging…
When the going gets tough, sales managers at CBS and other Viacom broadcasting properties had better get tougher.That was the word from Viacom President and Chief Operating Officer Mel Karmazin, who said, “Most of our sales managers are wimps” for…
When Touchstone Television was folded into the ABC Television Entertainment Group nearly two years ago, the widespread perception among the Hollywood creative community was that the studio would confine its production of network TV series to ABC-effectively shutting the door…
Making waves on the Forbes yachtIt was a three-hour cruise, but instead of Gilligan and the Skipper, the crew consisted of former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, Fox News Channel chief Roger Ailes and a few dozen of their media…
“Our investigation into a travel agency which booked teens on trips to Mexico. The trips put the kids into life-threatening situations while being `chaperoned.’ The attorney general filed charges against the agency because of our story.”Larry Perret, news director, KCOP-TV…