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NBC Universal continued to post gains in the first quarter, driven by healthy advances at both the broadcast network and the cable networks.The General Electric unit reported a first-quarter operating profit surge of 80 percent to $709 million from a…
TelevisionWeek has announced the agenda and panelists for its annual Upfront Summit, presented in association with Advertising Age, to be held April 28 at the Grand Hyatt in New York.Beginning with breakfast at 8 a.m., the presentations begin at 9…
TV Guide Channel will launch an “American Idol” recap series for the remainder of the Fox reality show’s season, the network announced Thursday.“Idol Chat” will be hosted by Kimberly Caldwell and Rosanna Tavarez, who will discuss and debate each week’s…
Twentieth Television is ceasing production on its personal makeover syndicated strip “Ambush Makeover,” but will attempt to sell produced episodes of the show as library product. First-run episodes of the strip will continue to run in syndication until Sept. 12.In…
The William Morris Agency has promoted Aaron Kaplan to worldwide head of scripted television and packaging. The announcement was made Thursday by CEO Jim Wiatt, Dave Wirtschafter, William Morris president, and Mark Itkin, co-head of worldwide television.As part of his…
Telecommunications giant Verizon Communications on Thursday struck a carriage agreement with Starz Entertainment Group to offer Starz channels on the phone company’s new video service Verizon Fios, which will be rolled out later this year. It marks the first carriage…
President Bush said Thursday he supports the concept of indecency standards for cable TV and satellite. In remarks before the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in Washington, the president also said parents share a responsibility over the kind of…
Public TV stations and cable multiple system owners reaching more than 80 percent of cable homes have ratified a deal that will ensure carriage of public broadcasting’s digital TV signals on systems serving “the vast majority of the nation’s cable…
Angry about the undisclosed use by TV outlets of Bush administration video news releases, Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., vowed Thursday to promote legislation that would require broadcasters and cable operators that use government-sponsored VNRs to continuously…
The Federal Communications Commission late Wednesday unanimously agreed to give Tribune Co. a temporary waiver to keep its Waterbury, Conn., station WTXX-TV at least until April 2007. A federal judge recently ordered Tribune to sell the station because its ownership…