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Viacom-owned UPN station WUPL-TV in New Orleans reports that all of its 40-plus employees have been accounted for and are safe, though many have lost homes and are spread around the country with other evacuees. WUPL said a core group…
In a move that should answer a lot of questions about the fate of their partnership, EchoStar Communications and SBC Communications late Tuesday revised the terms of their strategic alliance, transforming it into an arrangement in which SBC is more…
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons said Monday that while he might consider spinning off a larger share of the company’s cable unit or increasing the share of its stock buyback, the media giant’s real growth opportunity rests with…
Telephone giant Verizon Communications continued to rack up carriage agreements ahead of the official launch of its television service FiOS, inking a distribution agreement with The Walt Disney Co. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, involved carrying 12…
Comcast Tuesday officially named Neal Tiles president of G4 and Dale Hopkins chief operating officer, replacing founder Charles Hirschhorn at the network’s helm. The moves were reported Monday in TelevisionWeek. Mr. Tiles had been VP of marketing for DirecTV. Ms….
Two high-profile football games propelled ABC to a win the first night of the 2005-06 season, but CBS’s season premiere of the 10 p.m. (ET) procedural “CSI: Miami” took top honors in the adults 18 to 49 demographic.“CSI: Miami” scored…
The Hollywood Radio & Television Society’s board of directors has unanimously re-elected Andy Friendly president of the organization. Mr. Friendly will begin serving the 2005-06 term this month. Mr. Friendly, a television producer, is president of Andy Friendly Productions, a…
While NBC Universal’s new syndicated strip “Martha” was down 21 percent in its first week on the air, Warner Bros.’ “The Tyra Banks Show” grew from Monday to Monday, and Twentieth’s courtroom strip “Judge Alex” remained even.“Martha” scored a household…
Media buying firm Carat projects in a report released Tuesday that ABC will be the top-rated network among adults 18 to 49. According to the report, written by Shari Anne Brill, VP of programming, ABC will average a 4.2, followed…
Arbitron released its first batch of data from its Houston test of its Personal People Meter technology. Compared with meter and diary data compiled by Nielsen Media Research, the PPMs show higher average quarter-hour viewing for all types of television…