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The first week of May sweeps did little to empower up-and-coming players. The series that had been at the top of the household and demo scores remained there, according to Nielsen Media Research for the week ending May 6.In the…
The grim sweeper circling CNN againMore layoffs are imminent at CNN, but this wave is unlikely to set off the same public ripple effect as the cutbacks in January, when a number of longtime and well-known on-air types were summarily…
Veteran television writers, show runners and the major Hollywood studios thought they dodged bullets when the writers strike was averted earlier this month. Some of their greatest fears could still be justified, however, with the six major broadcast networks committing…
KRIV’s heart-wrenching eviction storyFox-owned KRIV-TV, Houston, broke a story April 29 about an 82-year-old woman who was evicted from her $150,000 home she had finished paying for years ago. The reason Wenonah Blevins was kicked out of her suburban Houston…
Sun sets for several showsIt is time to bid adieu to some network TV shows-some deservedly canceled and others that may have been unfairly caught in the crossfire of the scheduling wars. With mixed feelings and mixed ratings, ABC said…
John Malone’s Liberty Media Group-which is expected to close its deal this week for an expanded ownership stake in UnitedGlobalCom’s sprawling overseas cable footprint-took it on the chin last week from a few shareholders.A growing number of institutional shareholders are…
AOL Time Warner Chief Executive Gerald Levin last week raised the possibility that his company might acquire AT&T Corp.’s 23 percent interest in Cablevision Systems and perhaps seek a union of the two cable operators.In response to a shareholder question…
Big 4 networks rebut affiliate complaintsIn a letter last week to the Federal Communications Commission, the Big 4 networks responded to the latest round of charges by the major affiliate organizations alleging that the networks routinely engage in abuses aimed…
Here are the particulars of AT&T Corp.’s planned breakup as detailed in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing, which call for deals aimed at reducing its $47.5 billion debt: * Credit Suisse First Boston will shop AT&T’s 25.5 percent…
Bob Wright, the longtime chief of NBC, recently sent a tape of HBO’s hit “The Sopranos” to a number of his colleagues, asking them to comment on why they thought the show was a hit-and whether something like “The Sopranos,”…