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News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin is free to jump ship for a top job at a competing media company, and doesn’t even have to give notice to do it, according to a filing with the Securities…
Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions has formally created a television wing of the company, Icon TV, and made its current television executive, senior VP Nancy Cotton, the division’s new president.Icon had all three of its pilots picked up as series this…
DirecTV Group will drop the Trio channel from its lineup at the end of the year, once again raising questions about the future of the struggling cable network owned by NBC Universal.The loss of DirecTV as a distributor is a…
Political candidates, parties and independent groups spent a record $1.6 billion for TV ads this year in the nation’s 100 largest media markets, more than twice the amount spent in those markets during the 2000 presidential campaign, according to the…
The week ended Nov. 14 was a good one for a number of syndicated shows, thanks in part to stations getting up to speed for the first full week of the November sweeps.Among rookie strips, Paramount’s “The Insider” continued to…
Cablevision said its fledgling satellite service Rainbow DBS will pay Lockheed Martin $740 million to build five Ka-band satellites, but said it only has funding available to cover the first year’s worth of payments.In a filing submitted Wednesday to the…
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday announced that it had voted 3-2 to reject complaints alleging that a June 10, 2003, episode of Fox Broadcasting’s “Keen Eddie” ran afoul of agency indecency prohibitions. The episode at issue, about black market…
King World CEO Roger King announced Monday his company has renewed its first-run strip “Dr. Phil” for three additional seasons, through the 2008-09 season.Mr. King also said King World is in no rush to introduce more product into the marketplace….
CBS continued its strong showing for the 2004-05 season, winning the ninth week of the season, Nov. 15-21 in both total viewers and the adults 18 to 49 demographic.CBS’s Thursday 10 p.m. (ET) flagship crime procedural “CSI” was the top…
Dan Weiss, executive VP of worldwide marketing, has left NBC Universal Television Distribution as part of what a company spokesman called a “restructuring” of the marketing department.Mr. Weiss, who had been executive VP of worldwide marketing for Universal Television Distribution…