Fox Warms Up for Baseball All-Stars
Network’s Seven-Year Deal Paying Off as Ratings Surge
Cable
The Insider: Hold the ‘Joe’ and Mika
The Insider is addicted to morning television, but she’s also verrrrrrrry finicky about her morning television. She avoids, like the proverbial plague, any show whose hosts (usually male) seem bent not on telling her what’s happening in the world or…
A Modest Proposal for Celebrity ‘News’
We have Paris Hilton to thank for a recent moment of clarity about celebrity “news”versus the television news previous generations knew. It wasn’t anything about Ms. Hilton, per se. Rather, it was the behavior of broadcast and cable networks clawing…
‘October Road’ Lands ABC in Ditch
Critics Poll Summer 2007: Worst Series Category
‘Planet Earth’ Rules But Critics Bury ‘Heart’
Critics Poll Summer 2007: Non-Series Category
Critics Poll Summer 2007: Series
Votes were tabulated using a weighted scale. Critics submitted 10 shows in the best series category, with the top choice receiving 10 points, the second choice 9 points and so on down to the 10th choice, which received 1 point….
Critics Poll Summer 2007: Movie, Miniseries or Special
Best Movie, Miniseries or Special Rank Show Network Studio 1. Planet Earth Discovery BBC Channel 2. Longford HBO Channel 4, Granada Television, HBO 3. The State Within BBC BBC Films America (t) American Masters PBS American Masters, various others 5. Jesse Stone:…
NewsMakers
BROADCASTING Randi Goldklank to VP/general manager, WHDH-TV/WLVI-TV, Boston, from director, sales. Thomas Grant, to national sales manager/assistant station manager, WZDX-TV/WAMY-TV, Huntsville, Ala., from national sales manager, WFXR-TV/WWCW-TV, Roanoke, Va. Rick Vokulich to senior VP, business affairs, The CW Network, from…
ESPN Barred from All Star Baseball Game
Major League Baseball has taken away ESPN’s anchor desk at the All-Star Game. The slap follows ESPN’s decision to broadcast the top National League vote getters and the complete All-Star rosters on Sunday, when TBS was running its All-Star selection…
ESPN Goes Wide on Pan American Games
ESPN is offering extended coverage across seven of its outlets for this month’s Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, ESPN360.com, ESPN Deportes Radio, ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN Deportes La Revista all will feature some type of…