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Daytime Emmys: Selected winners of the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmys

Drama Series Directing Team:“General Hospital” (ABC):Owen Renfroe, director; William Ludel, director; Joseph Behar, director; Scott McKinsey, director; Matthew Diamond, director; Christine Magarian, associate director; Ronald Cates, associate director; Penny Pengra, associate director; Peter Fillmore, associate director; R.C. Cates, associate director;…

Web Heavies Pursue TV’s Big Names

MSN Teams With Reality Producer Silverman

Daytime Emmys: ‘Sesame Street’s’ Streak Unbroken

By Lee Alan HillSpecial to TelevisionWeek Name any prime-time show, news show, sports show, performer or technician. None has won more Emmy Awards than one of television’s most famous children’s shows, “Sesame Street.” With the eight statuettes it received at…

YouTube in the Video-Sharing ‘Soup’ With E!

Cable Net Snags Viral Shorts for ‘Cybersmack’

ABC Tests On-Demand Links

A handful of ABC affiliates are taking part in a test that lets visitors to station Web sites access ABC’s site to watch shows free on-demand.For the five stations, the test may demonstrate whether they can benefit from the network’s…

Station Sites Get in on ‘Men’

Syndicated programming has joined the broadband revolution.As part of the off-network syndication rollout of its sitcom “Two and a Half Men” for fall 2007, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution will allow local stations to stream entire episodes of the series…

Viral Video Players

The number of videos submitted to the most popular viral video Web sites has grown dramatically in recent months. The sites make the video available by various means. A look at some of the bigger viral video players:AddictingClips.comVideos posted daily:…

Viral Video

TelevisionWeek is trawling video-sharing Web sites to find the hottest clips spreading on the Internet. The setup: The driver in this clip must have been really, really good at Frogger as a kid-so good, in fact, that he or she…

Sites Vie for Position, Try to Generate Money

The turf war among video-sharing sites is on, with companies including YouTube.com competing with heavyweights such as Microsoft’s MSN service for visitors and advertising revenue.Becoming the first stop for the fickle hordes of Web video grazers could lead to a…

News Briefs: Askin Leaving Tribune Entertainment

Dick Askin, president and CEO of Tribune Entertainment is leaving the company effective May 17, Tribune announced Friday. Following Mr. Askin’s departure, John Reardon, president and CEO of Tribune Broadcasting, will oversee Tribune Entertainment. Mr. Askin, who also serves as…