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FTC gives Hollywood mixed reviews A report issued today by the Federal Trade Commission blasts film studios for advertising violent R-rated movies during television programs popular with teens a little more than six months after the agency blew the whistle…
Lieberman legislation to target industry Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., will introduce legislation Thursday that arms the Federal Trade Commission with the authority to crack down on Hollywood studios, music labels and video game manufacturers that market violent images and lyrics…
While Fox News Channel and CNN wage a war of headlines over who has the biggest talk-show audience, MSNBC Vice President and General Manager Erik Sorenson quietly reiterates that his network has got the youngest news audience.“We’re letting Fox and…
XFL founder Vince McMahon has written off NBC as a Saturday night football date and seems to have decided that his smash-mouth football league will play only on Sunday afternoons next season.Mr. McMahon told the Los Angeles Times last week…
Comedy Central is planning to launch an online 3-D multiplayer game next week featuring a set of confused characters trying to maneuver through the intricate and discombobulating new media landscape.The game, which borrows story elements from both futuristic science-fiction films…
In the fierce battle among proliferating ad-supported cable networks for carriage and advertising dollars, the Hallmark Channel is playing its numbers card.The channel, now called the Odyssey Network but in the process of being rebranded as the Hallmark Channel, commissioned…
WFTC set to begin 9 p.m. newscastFox affiliate WFTC-TV, Minneapolis, launches a 9 p.m. newscast Monday, making it the third station in the market with a one-hour 9 p.m. offering. The station has been planning to air a newscast for…
Hoping to ensure that the new Bush administration’s Federal Communications Commission chairman gets a fair opportunity to strut his stuff, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., according to a key source, is recommending that the White House give Michael Powell a new…
BBC Multimedia forges `Link’ with ActivisionBBC Multimedia signed a deal with Activision that gives the Santa Monica, Calif.-based distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide rights to develop, publish and distribute interactive games based on the television show “Weakest Link” for…
Title: President, Television Group, Belo Broadcast Division.TV stations owned: 17, which cover 13.7 percent of the country.Hometown: Cincinnati.Education: University of Cincinnati.First job: Ran camera, worked in traffic department and was a director at PBS station WCET-TV, Cincinnati.Background: “I grew up…