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For the first full week after May sweeps, which included the Memorial Day holiday, a presidential press conference and the French Open, the majority of top-rated syndicated strips saw declines, while a host of first-run one-hour weekend shows grew week…
MTV is getting into the poker business by forming an alliance with Myelin Media, the network said Wednesday. Myelin publishes the interactive entertainment software for the Texas Hold ’em game “Stacked With Daniel Negreanu.” MTV and its MTV Games unit…
Verizon Communications, pressing ahead with its plan to introduce a video service to compete with cable, announced Wednesday that it has struck a carriage agreement with Turner Broadcasting System to carry several channels on the phone giant’s new video service…
Ken Ehrlich, who produced the most recent Grammy Awards telecast, has been named executive producer of the “57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards,” scheduled to air Sunday, Sept. 18, on CBS. The announcement was made Tuesday by Nina Tassler, president of…
Buena Vista Television is in talks with Miami-based recording artist and producer Gloria Estefan to host her own syndicated talk show for fall 2007, sources said.A spokeswoman for Buena Vista declined to comment, saying the distributor does not discuss its…
Fox News Channel correspondent Brian Wilson has been promoted to congressional correspondent. His beat will range from breaking news on Capitol Hill-he was the first to report on TV last week that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was retiring from the…
Buena Vista’s syndicated talk strip “The Tony Danza Show” is tweaking its staff for its upcoming second season, changing out two of its top producers and dropping announcer Ereka Vetrini.Executive producer John Redmann, supervising producer Shane Farley and Ms. Vetrini,…
What has been a vague threat of government-mandated oversight for Nielsen Media Research became more real Friday when Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., introduced a bill that would require TV ratings services to be audited and accredited by the Media Rating…
A coalition of 52 Democratic members of the House of Representatives, led by Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, announced Friday that they have joined the chorus of those urging Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson to resign. “Mr. Tomlinson…
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement, announced today, is better news for broadcasters than cable in at least one crucial respect: Ms. O’Connor led the unsuccessful high court charge to overturn the industry’s must-carry rules in 1997. The cable…