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WABC anchor covers Sierra Leone war After stepping down from the WABC-TV anchor chair in January, veteran New York anchor Bill Beutel will be delivering reports beginning May 13 on his first major trip out of the United States for…
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`Today’ still No. 1, but race for No. 2 closes
For the past three months, CBS’s “The Early Show,” long a third-place finisher in the time slot, has been more competitive on Friday mornings. That’s when the castaway voted off “Survivor: The Australian Outback” the night before made his or…
Syndie marriage of convenience, savings
Rather than be marginalized or muscled out of the increasingly consolidated syndication business, two little indie operators based in New York have boldly taken a page from the book of much larger entertainment companies. BKS Entertainment and MG Perin have…
Upfront goes under execs’ microscope
In this era of transition, will the institution of the upfront survive? Despite the economic downturn, will the TV advertising marketplace continue to thrive? And with viewers newly empowered by programming choices and new technologies, how will advertisers move from…
Upfront will never be the same
Excuse me while I go out on a limb and declare that the upfront advertising market is becoming a shrine to a way of doing business that is changing as we speak. That’s not to say that the fine art…
Call it M-E-L TV
Mel Karmazin, the consummate salesman and Viacom’s operating guru, is looking beyond next week’s unveiling of CBS’s and UPN’s new fall television schedules and their upfront sale to advertisers in a depressed market. A year after Viacom merged with CBS,…
Pie Town dishes up fruit for cable nets
Pie Town Productions has a story to tell. This time it’s the company’s own. The production company helped catapult The Learning Channel to the No. 1 ad-supported cable network in daytime among women 18 to 34 for the first quarter…
Pittman: Back to bottom line
The economy may have slowed in the past two quarters, but Robert Pittman, co-chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner, the world’s largest media company, doesn’t consider this the worst of times. “I don’t view these quarters as being the…
Editorial: Anger over Thompson is misdirected
Weeks before Andrea Thompson reads her first line of copy off the TelePrompTer at Headline News, the former “NYPD Blue” star already has fulfilled one of her most important duties: She has brought attention to CNN. True, much of that…
McCain to take on cap
In a boost to the network effort to kill the TV station ownership cap, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., according to sources, is planning hearings on the matter within the next several weeks, during which he will make clear his opposition…