Bravo ordered a third season of “Top Chef,” which it bills as the top-rated food series on cable television.Season two of the show returns Wednesday night with a 70-minute episode featuring Ted Allen of Bravo’s “Queer Eye,” chef Robert Ivan…
Events of Special Interest to TV Biz The Consumer Electronics Show is a monster event that should attract more than 140,000 attendees this year. The show spreads out across the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Venetian Hotel and other locales…
Turner Broadcasting blocked EchoStar Communications’ Dish service from carrying the Court TV network in a dispute over carriage fees, prompting the satellite-television company to call Turner’s rate demands unreasonable.Turner, the Time Warner unit that holds networks including CNN and TBS,…
On Jan. 6, Matt Lauer will mark his 10-year anniversary as co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” morning show. It’s a gig he took after several years of doing—double and sometimes triple—duty for WNBC-TV in New York and “Today” across the street,…
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The player: Tom Burgess, founder and CEO of Boston-based Third Screen Media The play: Third Screen Media provides software that delivers ads to mobile phones and manages the entire ad cycle, from buying to reporting on the effectiveness of campaigns….
Weekly First-Run Hours Manage to Buck the Trend
From IAG Research A gaze backward reveals this truth about prime-time broadcast program genres: Almost any format can succeed. At different times one genre has been more dominant-comedies about a decade or so ago, dramas circa 1983 and Westerns in…