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Granite Broadcasting on Wednesday swung to a wider third-quarter loss, as the company continued to suffer weakness at its WB Network-affiliated television stations.The eight-station group reported a loss of $20 million, compared with year-earlier red ink of $14.9 million. Revenue…
On Sunday Nov. 14, San Francisco’s KPIX-TV plans to launch a localized version of CBS’s “60 Minutes.” The Viacom-owned CBS station will premiere the first installment of “30 Minutes Bay Area,” which will air quarterly as a lead-in to “60…
Citing indecency concerns, ABC affiliate WOI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, announced Wednesday that it will pre-empt the ABC TV Network’s broadcast of “Saving Private Ryan” Thursday evening-even though the broadcast was supposed to commemorate Veterans Day and the movie was…
Disney Channel has ordered a second season of “Phil of the Future,” a comedy series about a teenager from the year 2121 whose family is stuck in the present day. Michael Curtis (“Friends”) and Roger S.H. Schulman (“Shrek”) will join…
Three new officers have been elected to The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, announced Steve Mosko, the newly elected foundation chairman on Tuesday. Mr. Mosko, president of Sony Pictures Television, was elected to chairman last week. Now joining…
CBS maintained its dominance over the other networks in total viewers for the week of Nov. 1-7, but both ABC and NBC were able to snatch away the top spot in the race in the adults 18 to 49 demographic.ABC’s…
Adelphia Communications, the bankrupt cable operator that is up for sale, on Tuesday said it expected final offers for the company’s assets to be submitted in January 2005, a delay of a month.The company provided the revised date in a…
Satellite operator EchoStar Communications on Tuesday said its profit nearly tripled in the third quarter as the company announced plans to issue to shareholders a one-time dividend.EchoStar’s profit was $102 million for the third quarter, up from a year-earlier figure…
Liberty Media President Robert Bennett on Tuesday dismissed the suggestion that his company was angling to launch a hostile takeover of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., saying that the relationship between the two companies has been nothing but “friendly” and “supportive.”“We…
Goodman Media International President and CEO Tom Goodman has tapped veteran public relations executive Betsy Wagner Hoffman to head the PR firm’s new Los Angeles office, it was announced Tuesday.Ms. Hoffman joins Goodman with more than 20 years of experience…