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A Lifetime of television success

After 18 years as a writer and producer in the television industry, Deborah Joy LeVine has seen more than her share of success. Her most recent project is a series she created and is executive-producing for Lifetime Television. “The Division,”…

Opening eyes with `Blind Date’

With their syndicated strip “Blind Date” now playing on a television near you, David Garfinkle and Jay Renfroe of Renegade 83 haven’t just made it to first base, they’ve hit a home run with ratings success.Up next to the plate…

Profile: Rob Kennedy

Title: Executive vice president and co-chief operating officer of C-SPAN, the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, since 1995. Mr. Kennedy joined C-SPAN in 1987 as vice president of business affairs.Future: “It’s very hard to look at anything beyond three to…

Ratings

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Local Market Spotlight: Roanoke-Lynchburg, Va.

Ad sales are soft in Roanoke-Lynchburg, Va., but station managers are hoping car dealers will spend more on ads at the end of the quarter in an effort to try to move their inventory.“The car businesses-they are loaded to the…

Still hot after Icebox.com

For veteran TV writer Rob LaZebnik, helping found the online entertainment company Icebox.com was more about expanding his creative horizons than about landing a licensing deal. But when Showtime expressed interest in developing Mr. LaZebnik’s online animated comedy “Starship Regulars”…

The ABCs of 3-D for the small screen

The large-format 3-D film “Haunted Castle” could open big this week in Imax theaters. Written and directed by nWave Pictures’ executive producer Ben Stassen, the controversial (for its violent images) 40-minute film will debut in 3-D on the five-story-high screen…

The man behind `Survivor’

You only have to talk to Mark Burnett for a few minutes to suspect that Rob Sorcher, executive vice president and general manager for USA Network, may be right: “Mark Burnett is an evangelist for his franchises in the best…

Who’s your `matey’?

It’s apropos that David Stanley and Scott Stone, partners in Stone Stanley Entertainment, have a reputation for throwing some of the best parties in the business.“We have a commitment to unapologetic fun,” Mr. Stanley said. It shows in the kinds…

Who is News

BroadcastingYolanda Thomas to traffic manager, WJZY-TV and WFVT-TV, Charlotte, N.C., from assistant traffic manager. Also, Deborah Rapa to research/marketing director, WJZY and WFVT, from research director, WWMT-TV, Kalamazoo, Mich.; L’Tonya Hopkins to local sales manager, WFVT-TV, Charlotte, from sales consultant,…