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Caucus Honors Block

| Awards | TVWeek Editor Selected for Tribute

ABC’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ Sweeps Up

They are no longer desperate for sweeps success at ABC. ABC’s saucy new Sunday night breakout hit, “Desperate Housewives,” was the show to beat during this November sweeps. It swept to the top in the key adults 18 to 49…

Alternatives to Nielsen on Table

| Ratings | Researchers to Examine Feasibility of JIC Model in 2005

Brokaw’s Signoff Draws Viewers

| News | New Anchor Williams Starts in First Place

Sweeps’ Viability Mulled

Almost as perennial as the November sweeps itself is the ongoing discussion over whether the sweeps-an Eisenhower-era creation-still serves a purpose in an increasingly fractured 21st century marketplace that is rapidly changing, thanks to technology. “Sweeps are going to get…

Syndicated Strip Showrunners: Ed Glavin

Executive producer of “The Larry Elder Show” said he hasn’t slept in a production office in years-but that’s not to say it isn’t getting “harder to launch a syndicated show every year.” Among Mr. Glavin’s growing concerns this season: Securing…

Syndicated Strip Showrunners: Linda Bell Blue

The hours Bell Blue has kept as executive producer of “Entertainment Tonight” for the past decade have always been some of the most extreme in all of TV. But what she’s been doing since she added “ET” spinoff “The Insider”…

Syndicated Strip Showrunners: Thomas Klein

To say has stared down several challenges as executive producer of “Pat Croce: Moving In” would be like calling the Sears Tower a pretty tall building. “Launching `Pat Croce’ was without a doubt one of the toughest jobs I’ve had…

Fox Challenges Indecency Fine

| Regulation | Network, Affils Say FCC Penalty Violates First Amendment

Magna Brings on a Program Exec

| Advertising | Izzicupo to Develop Projects for Firm’s Advertisers