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Veteran television director/producer Gilbert Cates will receive the American Society of Cinematographers Board of Governors Award Feb. 20, 2005. Mr. Cates has produced 11 Academy Award broadcasts and telepics such as “To All My Friends on Shore,” “Absolute Strangers” and…
Sinclair Broadcast Group took on its critics Tuesday as it announced the title, content and broadcast schedule for its controversial one-hour news program that has spurred protests and calls for boycotts of Sinclair stations and advertisers.“A POW Story: Politics, Pressure…
News Corp. said Tuesday that President George Bush and Sen. John Kerry have accepted the company’s offer of free airtime on Fox Broadcasting. Mr. Kerry’s spots began airing Saturday. President Bush’s spots will begin airing Wednesday night.The free airtime consists…
Sci Fi Channel is developing a miniseries based on the classic “Wizard of Oz” story. Projected as one of the network’s “events,” the four-hour “Tin Man” will be executive produced by Steven Long Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle.
Cox Communications’ controlling shareholder on Tuesday sweetened its all-cash offer to buy the cable company and take it private, boosting the final price to $8.4 billion from an earlier offer of $7.9 billion.The controlling shareholder, Cox Enterprises, raised its offer…
A group of shareholders in Sinclair Broadcast Group on Tuesday asked the broadcaster’s board to launch an independent investigation into whether two executives and a board member engaged in insider trading earlier this year when they sold Sinclair shares ahead…
CBS won the week of Oct. 11 to 17 in viewers, but Fox captured the week in adults 18 to 49 thanks to baseball.CBS’s “CSI” was the No. 1 show for the week in both viewers (28.89 million) and adults…
FremantleMedia North America has signed a pact with UK production company Ten Alps TV to acquire reality show formats for U.S. audiences, the parties announced Tuesday. Fremantle produces shows such as “American Idol,” “How Clean Is Your House?” and “The…
An investor in DirecTV Latin America sued today to block DirecTV Group and controlling shareholder Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. from proceeding with a plan to consolidate their satellite operations in Latin America.The suit, filed in Miami in a Florida state…
Fox announced Monday its new reality series “Nanny 911,” which profiles a team of nannies who take on unruly children, will premiere Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 9 p.m. (ET).Each episode features head nanny Lilian and her butler Fraser, who reviews…