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Jay Has a Few Things to Say

The Veteran Host of NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show’ Opens Up About His Role as a Television Icon

Martha Stewart Signs New Contract With MSO

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has inked a new employment contract with its founder, but she won’t be paid while she serves her five-month prison sentence that starts Oct. 8. Under the terms of the five-year contract, which was signed Sept….

HBO Savors Record, Focuses on Future

Pay Net Banks on Continued Long-Form Success

Maintaining Net Standards Not Getting Easier

At CBS News, the procedures for vetting stories before they are broadcast vary from show to show. In the case of the Wednesday edition of “60 Minutes,” it is the job of Senior Broadcast Producer Esther Kartiganer to make sure…

Paar: Father of the Show

‘The Tonight Show’s’ First Long-Term Host Set a High Standard for His Successors

Staying at MGM Until the End

Yemenidjian and McGurk Plan to See Company Through Sony Acquisition but Are Unlikely to Remain

Ad Buyers Foresaw Shift on Thursdays

| Networks | CBS Knocks NBC in Demo, Viewers

Ad Week Event Faces Red Ink

| Advertising | Expenses Outpace Revenues After Gathering in New York

Agency Deploys LPM Data

| Advertising | Initiative Media’s Alert System Flags Underdelivered Spots

Billy Wilder on Johnny Carson

The late Billy Wilder, the winner of six Academy Awards, wrote and directed a number of classic movies, including “Some Like It Hot” and “Double Indemnity.” This excerpt is taken from a profile of Mr. Carson by Kenneth Tynan that…