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Shares in Charter Communications tumbled as much as 16 percent Tuesday as Wall Street reacted to the cable operator’s plans to issue $750 million in convertible debt to pay down debt due next October.Charter’s stock sank 43 cents to $2.28…
President Bush late Monday announced his intention to nominate FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein for reappointment to a Democratic seat at the Federal Communications Commission. Without a reappointment Mr. Adelstein would have been forced to step down from the agency when…
Crown Media Holdings, the company that owns the Hallmark Channel and is in the process of selling its international properties, on Monday reported a widened third-quarter loss of $105.8 million, versus year-earlier red ink of $72.7 million.Reflected in the most…
Carole Black, James Burrows and Dick Wolf will be honored with the National Association of Television Program Executives 2nd Annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards, which will be presented in January during the NATPE 2005 Conference and Exhibition.The announcement was made…
NBC Weather Plus, a 24-hour national-local weather channel developed as a 50-50 joint venture of NBC Universal and NBC affiliates, began its rollout Monday on WNBC-TV’s digital channel on the Time Warner Cable system in New York. During the next…
Sci Fi Channel has ordered new seasons of “Stargate Atlantis” and “Stargate SG-1” from MGM Television Entertainment. Production on both 20-episode seasons is set to begin in March 2005 for summer premieres on Sci Fi. “Stargate Atlantis” premiered in July,…
Barrington Broadcasting, a station group run by former National Association of Broadcasters board member K. James Yager, on Monday struck a deal to acquire CBS affiliate KRCG-TV in Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo., from Mel Wheeler Inc. Terms were not disclosed.The transaction,…
When TBS created the upcoming reality series “The Real Gilligan’s Island,” one of the inside jokes built into the show was that the real-life scientist cast as “The Professor” would be gay-playing off rumors that once circulated among some viewers…
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