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Gloria Monty, the executive producer of the ABC soap opera “General Hospital” who made the characters Luke and Laura global icons, died Thursday of cancer in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Ms. Monty took over the reins of “General Hospital” in 1978,…
VH1 this week named Rick Beispel senior VP of national ad sales, MTV Networks executives confirmed. Mr. Beispel was previously VP of new business development at MTV. He succeeds Sean Moran, who moved from VH1 to the top sales job…
The Radio-Television News Directors Association on Friday accused owners of National Football League teams of undermining freedom of the press and asked them to reverse their decision earlier in the week to bar local television stations’ cameras from the sidelines…
Deborah Taylor Tate, the Federal Communications Commission’s new Republican commissioner, told reporters Friday that she plans to use her office to encourage the TV industry to promote positive values for children. “Everything from healthy lifestyles to healthy eating,” Ms. Tate…
More than three-fourths (76 percent) of voters will be unhappy if government regulation limits the TV programming choices available, according to a survey released Friday by TV Watch, an organization backed by NBC Universal, CBS Corp. and Fox parent News…
Starz Entertainment Group said Friday it has reached a new affiliation agreement with satellite operator EchoStar Communications.The multiyear deal, whose terms were not disclosed, means Starz’s package of channels will continue to run on EchoStar’s Dish Network satellite service.Starz offers…
MyNetworkTV has signed 30 more affiliates, the network announced Thursday. The new deals raise MyNetworkTV’s clearances to 96 stations whose signals reach 63 percent of the TV homes in this country.Thirteen of the deals were for affiliates on the digital…
The three debuting first-run syndicated strips saw growth for the week ended March 19, even as many veterans saw declines and pre-emptions due to the first week of CBS’s telecasts of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.Twentieth Television’s courtroom show “Judge…
Two new 10 p.m. network dramas saw declines in their second airings, while veteran “CSI: NY” maintained its time period dominance.“CSI: NY” scored a 4.6 rating in the adults 18 to 49 demographic, a number that includes live-plus-same-day viewing, according…
Media investment management company GroupM’s Mediaedge:cia has launched MEC Entertainment to handle original entertainment content creation for agency clients and has hired Chet Fenster to run the venture.Mr. Fenster has been named managing partner and director of content creation for…