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Shapiro in Line for Top Job at IFC Net

Cablers Shuffle Executives

SNTA Plans Confabs in 3 Cities

| Syndication | Special Sessions for Media Planners Have Been Added

NBCU Setting Goals for 2005

| Cable | Bravo, USA First in Line With Branding Campaigns

TV Faces Drug Withdrawal

Loss of Ads for Side Effect-Plagued Meds Could Total $200 Mil in ’05; News, Sports Hit Hardest

Winter 2005 Critics Poll: ‘Swan’ Song? Critics Hope For Reality Show’s Demise

Rarely does a top-five Worst Show in the semiannual TelevisionWeek Critics Poll attract enough viewers to return for a second season. But Fox’s “The Swan” is a glorious exception, a show critics love to hate and some viewers couldn’t quite…

:30s Take a Licking, Keep on Ticking

Under Attack by Technology and Advertisers, Traditional Spots Get a Boost From Sponsored Programming

Ad Sales Consolidated into New York Office

NBC Universal Cable consolidated the ad sales organizations for all of its entertainment networks-USA Network, Sci Fi Channel, Bravo and Trio-and moved them into NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters at the end of the year. The sales forces of USA…

Behind the Screen: It’s Showtime for ‘Hate’ Pilot

One Pay Cable Drama Project’s Journey From Development to Delivery

Carat Convenes iTV Think Tank

By Daisy WhitneyAdvertising Age Media agency Carat USA has created a think tank to brainstorm the next generation of interactive-TV-ad models before they hit the small screen. The group, hatched through the newly formed Carat Digital division, includes Carat advertisers,…

NATPE Co-Chairs Nominated for New Terms

Stephen Davis, president of Granada America, and John Weiser, president of distribution for Sony Pictures Television, who serve as co-chairmen of the National Association of Television Program Executives, have each been nominated to a second term at NATPE, the organization’s…