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Title: Executive vice president for the CNN News Group and key architect of the CNN Newsource syndicated news service. On April 30, Newsource began transmitting its feeds in a digital format. Digital and analog feeds will continue through May 30….
Roger Sverdlik is well-versed in the world of advertising sales. After 15 years in broadcast, Mr. Sverdlik left his post as executive vice president and national sales manager for ABC Television in November 1999 to join Comcast Corp. as senior…
He is called The Fat Man. Some call him that affectionately, others not so affectionately.But as Lou Dobbs, “The Fat Man,” starts his “comeback” as the appointed and anointed savior of CNN on May 14, the question on the floor…
Station adapts to delay of executionTimothy McVeigh’s execution was postponed to June 11, forcing Oklahoma City NBC affiliate KFOR-TV to pull its two crews back from Terre Haute, Ind., on Friday and scrap its planned special coverage of the event.“Right…
Next-generation receivers have taken center stage in the scramble to rescue digital television from its stalled rollout. But terrestrial broadcasters heavily invested in making DTV work recognize that they need a “modern coat hanger” (indoor antenna) to go with the…
CBS, Fox in best shape, analysts say Wall Street on Friday was declaring Viacom (owner of CBS) and Fox the winners of what analysts expect will be a slow-to-start and sluggish upfront advertising market. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Lehman…
It’s official: XFL is dead World Wrestling Federation Entertainment and NBC, which were equal partners in the XFL, pronounced the football league dead late Thursday afternoon. The project, conceived by WWFE Chairman Vince McMahon and announced with WWF-style braggadocio, hyperbole…
Baby Bell broadband bill approved in committee The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed legislation Wednesday night offered by panel Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La., and Rep. John Dingell, R-Mich., that lets the Baby Bell phone companies build out Internet backbone…
FCC postpones debate on cross-ownership The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday yanked its planned review of the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership ban from the agenda of its public meeting Thursday because two of the four commissioners are divided on how to proceed….
‘Survivor’ pushes CBS into near-tie with NBC For the week of April 30-May 6, marking the grand finale of CBS’s “Survivor: The Australian Outback,” preliminary Nielsen Media Research fast national projections show CBS and NBC finishing in a near-dead heat…