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Robert Pittman, co-chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner, will keynote the Upfront Television Advertising Summit presented May 1 in New York by Electronic Media and Advertising Age.His lunchtime remarks will culminate a morning of discussion of this year’s syndication,…
In a stunning victory for the nation’s biggest cable TV companies, the federal appeals court in Washington Friday threw out several key Federal Communications Commission cable ownership regulations, including ones barring ownership of systems reaching more than 30 percent of…
Let’s see how many conclusions we can draw from the fact that ABC’s movie about Judy Garland was a big fat huge enormous success.How’s this for one startling insight: If you make a really good movie with a brilliant performance…
WCAU wins 11 p.m.; N.Y., L.A. heat upNBC-owned WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, unseated the perennial market leader, ABC-owned WPVI-TV, which has been the No. 1 station in the 11 p.m. news race since 1975.WCAU earned a 12.6 Nielsen Media Research rating and…
ACTV has developed technology that can block the fast-forwarding of commercials on digital personal video recording devices such as TiVo, Electronic Media has learned.But now that consumers can use PVRs to fast-forward through commercials, will they accept a device that…
Hefty government fines may prove a strong incentive for broadcasters to return their analog television spectrum to the government in 2006.Outraged that some TV stations are dragging their feet on transitioning to digital, Senate lawmakers last week raised the specter…
Another week of sweeps soothed “Live With Regis & Kelly” as well as a number of court shows, according to Nielsen Media Research for the week ending Feb. 18. But for “Rosie O’Donnell,” winter continues to chill the ratings books.The…
Relationship series “The 5th Wheel” has found first gear as the series shifts from stop to go.After weeks of negotiations and scouting the stations in New York, the country’s top market, Universal Television has cleared the upcoming relationship strip on…
It was supposed to be a return to football’s he-man glory days. Instead, the XFL-in five short weeks-has become a favorite punch-lining bag for late-night comedians.On one night last week, David Letterman joked that George W. Bush’s first presidential address…
In “No labor, no problem for `Ricki Lake’ show on teen pregnancy” (EM, The Insider, Feb. 26), the strip’s show runner is Gail Steinberg.