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New Agreement Cuts Redstone’s Salary, Bonuses

Viacom said Monday it has reached a new compensation agreement with Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone in which Mr. Redstone receives smaller cash salary and bonuses effective Jan. 1, 2007.The new deal is supposed to immediately link the majority of Mr….

ABC to Offer Online News Player to Station Web Sites

ABC plans to offer an ABC News online video player to its 200-plus affiliates that will include clips from news shows such as “World News With Charles Gibson” and “Good Morning America” on the stations’ Web sites.Under the deal, ABC…

Program Partners to Syndicate ‘Degrassi: The Next Generation’ in U.S.

Syndication company Program Partners has acquired the U.S. broadcast syndication rights to Canadian teen series “Degrassi: The Next Generation” to run as a strip beginning in fall 2007.The series, the latest edition in the 25-year-old “Degrassi” teen relationship franchise, has…

ABC Takes Sunday Crown With Help of ‘Housewives’

Despite a big decline from last September’s season premiere, ABC’s 9 p.m. (ET) soapy one-hour “Desperate Housewives” was the highest-rated program Sunday in adults 18 to 49, winning the network a night that was crowded with original programming, season premieres…

‘Law & Order’ Premiere Gives NBC Friday Win

NBC won Friday in the adults 18 to 49 demographic with help from the top-rated program for the night: the season premiere of the network’s veteran procedural, “Law & Order.”At 10 p.m. (ET) “Law & Order” scored a 3.5 preliminary…

CBS’s ’60 Minutes’ Tops News Emmy Winners

By Elizabeth JensenSpecial to TelevisionWeekCBS’s “60 Minutes” was the top winner at the 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Monday night, taking home four statuettes.CBS’s “48 Hours” also won an Emmy, pushing the network’s total to five awards, which…

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Spot Ratings: Not So Fast

Nielsen Puts ‘Experimental’ Stamp on Ad Data After Unusual Meeting

Buyers Flocking to Online Shows

Spots Sell Out as Fast as Inventory Is Announced

Night-by-Night Ratings Fights

Networks Vie for Early Victories