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Paramount is raising the bar for syndication stalwart “Cheers,” which is getting an extensive digital makeover before its cable bow.The studio is in the process of a multimillion-dollar restoration of the 275-episode series, which was showing its age due to…
Dick Robertson is a man of his word. After a few years of complaining that the NATPE convention has outlived its usefulness, the president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television finally broke the news that his company will sit out next…
A few weeks ago, the Network Affiliated Stations Alliance, of which I am chairman, filed a petition asking that the Federal Communications Commission examine various network practices. Four sets of reactions-by stations, networks, government officials and the press-provide insights into…
Excitement about ITV premature Shortly after convergent media consulting agency Pittard Sullivan reportedly shut its doors last week, former Pittard Sullivan Director of Information Technology Marvin Price wrote in a letter to Digital Coast Daily: “There is already a fervor…
NBCi.com links with GoToNBCi.com announced a two-year search distribution agreement with GoTo.com that will provide GoTo’s pay-for-performance listings to NBCi’s millions of users. GoTo gained notoriety when it sued The Walt Disney Co. claiming its Go.com name, used for Disney’s…
Brad Turell is following boss Jamie Kellner to Turner Broadcasting. Mr. Turell is being promoted from executive vice president, network communications, The WB, to executive vice president, communications, Turner Broadcasting, where he will be the company’s spokesman.Mr. Turell has been…
In the imminent upfront battle for advertising dollars between ad-supported basic cable and the Big 4 broadcast networks, cable will take a $500 million bite out of broadcasting’s upfront revenues, driving the Big 4’s aggregate revenues down by a projected…
Campaign finance reform legislation approved by the Senate last week could suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of the television business by banning the kind of funding used to bankroll much political advertising and forcing the industry to give…
In “Warner bails on NATPE” (EM, April 2), the quote from Paramount Domestic Television Co-President Frank Kelly was made at the Electronic Media Syndication Roundtable held in October 2000.
In a story about NBC’s Enhanced Broadcasting Group becoming part of ValueVision International (EM, April 2), the headline incorrectly referred to NBCi, which is an unrelated operation. ValueVision International is a home shopping network that will be rebranded ShopNBC in…