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Gloria Monty, ‘General Hospital’ EP, Dies of Cancer
Gloria Monty, the executive producer of the ABC soap opera “General Hospital” who made the characters Luke and Laura global icons, died Thursday of cancer in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Ms. Monty took over the reins of “General Hospital” in 1978,…
VH1 Names Beispel National Ad Sales Senior VP
VH1 this week named Rick Beispel senior VP of national ad sales, MTV Networks executives confirmed. Mr. Beispel was previously VP of new business development at MTV. He succeeds Sean Moran, who moved from VH1 to the top sales job…
RTNDA Questions Football Team Owners’ Decision to Bar Local TV Cameras
The Radio-Television News Directors Association on Friday accused owners of National Football League teams of undermining freedom of the press and asked them to reverse their decision earlier in the week to bar local television stations’ cameras from the sidelines…
FCC’s Tate Says She’ll Focus on Values for Kids
Deborah Taylor Tate, the Federal Communications Commission’s new Republican commissioner, told reporters Friday that she plans to use her office to encourage the TV industry to promote positive values for children. “Everything from healthy lifestyles to healthy eating,” Ms. Tate…
Survey: Voters Don’t Want Government to Regulate TV Viewing
More than three-fourths (76 percent) of voters will be unhappy if government regulation limits the TV programming choices available, according to a survey released Friday by TV Watch, an organization backed by NBC Universal, CBS Corp. and Fox parent News…
Starz Signs Affiliation Pact With EchoStar
Starz Entertainment Group said Friday it has reached a new affiliation agreement with satellite operator EchoStar Communications.The multiyear deal, whose terms were not disclosed, means Starz’s package of channels will continue to run on EchoStar’s Dish Network satellite service.Starz offers…
MyNetworkTV Announces 30 New Affiliates
MyNetworkTV has signed 30 more affiliates, the network announced Thursday. The new deals raise MyNetworkTV’s clearances to 96 stations whose signals reach 63 percent of the TV homes in this country.Thirteen of the deals were for affiliates on the digital…