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The recent economic downturn is beginning to take a toll on the syndication industry, and Promax could be the first to feel the fallout. The world’s largest gathering of promotion, marketing and design professionals in TV, digital media and radio…
With a weak economy and strikes looming, ad buyers attending last week’s pre-upfront presentations by the broadcast networks said they don’t expect any network to see positive cost-per-thousand increases next season. “It could be considered a safe bet that the…
Spectrum fee idea nixed Washington–Broadcasters can breathe a sigh of relief on the issue of analog spectrum fees. Earlier this month, President Bush proposed in his fiscal year 2002 budget that commercial TV stations start paying $200 million in annual…
More than two-thirds of the Senate last week backed a proposal requiring television stations to offer politicians rock-bottom rates for political ads, setting the stage for a possible compromise over free airtime. The National Association of Broadcasters strongly opposes the…
Welcome (back) to the future of television. National advertisers are getting into the program-production business, and product placement is being offered as “added value” for network time buys. ABC’s “The Runner,” the highly anticipated new reality/game series with a 13-episode…
Sci-Fi abducts `Taken,’ ignites new `Firestarter’ The Sci-Fi Channel has given the green light to the 20-hour Steven Spielberg/DreamWorks Television miniseries “Taken,” a four-hour sequel to Stephen King’s “Firestarter” and a slate of movies that includes “Babylon 5: The Legend…
The debate over whether broadcasters should televise the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, scheduled for May 16, tends to parallel the argument over capital punishment itself: Death penalty opponents want to put the grim event on the air…
Littlefield cuts deal with Paramount Warren Littlefield, former president of NBC Entertainment and current owner of independent production company Littlefield Productions, has severed his in-house production deal with NBC and signed a multiyear pact with Paramount Network Television. Ending a…
A series of ads by Tribune-owned KTLA-TV in Los Angeles that have been running in the Tribune-owned Los Angeles Times make debatable claims that could conceivably plunge the newspaper into a new controversy, just as memories have begun to fade…
The arrival of March held a pleasant surprise for a number of shows during the first full week out of sweeps, a period that traditionally proves to be a ratings free-fall. Newsmagazines, the top-tiered off-net sitcoms and “Live With Regis…