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This Week March 30-April 4, Advanced Marketing & Technology Symposium, sponsored by Marketing Opportunities in Business & Entertainment, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, Los Angeles. Information: Susan Peters, 773-651-8008, or www.mobe.com. April 2-4, iWireless World, sponsored by iWireless Forum, at…
FCC to look at cross-ownership rule Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell told a House panel today that the agency will review the newspaper cross-ownership ban beginning in May. The rule bars entities from owning both a newspaper and a…
Odyssey to be reborn as Hallmark Send a bon voyage card to the Odyssey Network and jot down a greeting to the Hallmark Channel, the newest worldwide brand in cable, brought to viewers searching for family-friendly programming by Hallmark Cards…
Major League Baseball to charge for webcasts Major League Baseball and RealNetworks have signed an exclusive three-year pact that will corner the market on live audio webcasts and convert them from a free service to a subscription one. The deal,…
TV news doesn’t really cover the field of medicine. Instead it goes about the business of fomenting hysteria. Sometimes it’s a kind of benign hysteria, the careless spreading of false hope by reporting on some small advance in scientific research…
Reynolds upped, Severino on way out at CBS Fredric Reynolds is rejoining the CBS side of the Viacom family as president of the CBS Television Stations division. He’ll report to CBS Television President and CEO Les Moonves. Mr. Reynolds, who…
Ted Turner is about to launch the next stage of his fabled and colorful career. The media mogul has been discussing with old pals the idea of establishing an organization that could bankroll the production of documentaries and movies on…
In the ongoing bidding war for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” The WB network may now have the cross-media platform trump card to retain the hit series beyond this season. Thanks to The WB’s new ties with the Turner cable networks,…
WHLT plans 15 layoffs, no newscasts WHLT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Hattiesburg-Laurel, Miss., will air its last newscast March 30 and lay off 15 staffers. WHLT General Manager Todd Buccelli said the newscast, which the Media General-owned station launched in…
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has winnowed down more than 100 requests for interviews to a short list of TV and print news organizations to which he would talk if press is given access to the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre…