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Peacock Crowing About Olympics

| Network | NBC Sees Athens Dividend for Cable Nets, Stations

Broadcast Revenues Spiral Ever Higher

How the Games Grew to Become Television’s Single Biggest Event

The Inevitable Advent of All-Menu TV

In the early 1990s one of the true visionaries of television, John Hendricks, founder of the Discovery Networks, invited me to a demonstration of a new technology he believed would revolutionize the world. It was called Your Choice TV. It…

Toyota Signs for ‘Pride’ Premiere

| Advertising | Commercial-Free Debut for CGI-Animated Sitcom

FCC Mulls Digitizing Kids Rule

Proposal Could Expand Educational Programming Requirement From 3 Hours a Week to 15 or More

Gigs

RolesTommy Lee, former Motley Crue drummer, signed on to his own reality show with NBC Universal Television Studio. Mr. Lee will be the subject of an as-yet-untitled half-hour reality project in which he will enroll in college. The show, which…

New Poker Series Up WPT’s Sleeve

| Programming | Developing Pro Player Tour

Weekend ‘GMA’ Will Keep Edge

| News | Exec Producer Promises ‘Extremely Ambitious’ New Edition

Judge: Fox’s ‘Champ’ Can Air

A California Superior Court judge ruled Friday that the court would not prevent the Fox Network and producers Endemol USA and Lock & Key Productions from airing the reality boxing show “The Next Great Champ,” which is scheduled to premiere…

L.A. Anchor Larry McCormick Dead at Age 71

Larry McCormick, one of the first African American television news anchors in Los Angeles, has passed away at age 71, according to an announcement by KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, where he worked for the past 24 years. The cause of…