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see publication for following charts:Demographic Ratings (Broadcast Prime Time, Syndication)Night-by-night Nielsen Prime-Time ratings for the week of May 7-13Ratings for the week of May 7-13
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Answering the burning questions
The broadcast networks’ upfront week invariably produces questions that go well beyond “How much is that 30-second commercial window?”Electronic Media has the answers-in most cases. Which actors’ names are most likely to give reporters and listing editors spelling nightmares? This…
AT&T ventriloquist behind Voice?
Consumers’ Voice, a self-described watchdog group fighting controversial broadband legislation in Washington, receives most of its funding from AT&T but does not disclose the connection on its Web site or in its ads.Cable and phone giant AT&T is the staunchest…
At Press Time
Panel to review billWashington-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., on Friday cleared the House Judiciary Committee to review controversial broadband legislation that deregulates the Bell phone companies so they can compete more effectively against cable in the high-speed Internet access business….
Affils get networks’ messages
For The WB and its affiliates, it’s a case of give and take.The network is eliminating its 7 a.m.-to-8 a.m. (ET) weekday kids block and giving that hour back to its local affiliates. In return for essentially giving up 60…
Computers have got us by the bells
Another morning in blissful Technotopia. It begins with the insistent vindictive malicious ringing of our old friend the telephone. Who’s calling at this ripe young hour of 8:30 a.m.? Ah, wrong question. It’s not a “who,” it’s a “what.”It’s a…
Giving short shrift to long-form genre
Admitting that original movies and miniseries are a “thing of the past” for the broadcast networks, NBC and CBS scrapped two showcase evenings from their 2001-02 season schedules last week, largely ceding the long-form programming genre to the basic and…
Nets have advertisers seeing stars in NYC
The broadcast network upfront fall-season presentations, held last week across midtown Manhattan, unfold annually in front of TV’s most desirable (and toughest) audience–namely, the assembled advertisers, who generally have seen it all and bought most of it.A tone alternating between…
Spanish-language nets seek bigger piece of pie
At its upfront presentation to more than 900 U.S. Hispanic agency executives and their clients last week in New York, Univision began positioning itself as the Spanish-language Viacom or AOL Time Warner, able to deliver multiple media in a single…
Powell reluctant to act on TV sex and violence
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell is skittish about asking broadcasters to tone down racy television content because he does not want to run afoul of the First Amendment.“We have a right to be outraged,” he said last Thursday during…