Index Will Track Vitality of Sports
ESPN-OMD Project to Monitor Fans’ Commitment
In Depth
Sellers’ Time for Compromise
Shifted Viewing Puts Consumers in Control, So Plan to Reach Them on Their Terms
Good Night and Bad Schtick
NBC Universal Television Group CEO Jeff Zucker accepted Gold Medal honors in what may be record time from the International Radio & Television Society Foundation. He promised the NBC Universal colleagues-“The mandatory attendance thing seems to have worked,” joked Mr….
Internet TV to the Rescue
Rural Telcos Betting on IPTV Product for Competitive Edge
Fox Gives Full-Season Order to ‘House’
Fox is ordering a full season of its medical drama “House” for the 2006-07 broadcast season. It will be the series’ third season. The NBC Universal Television Studios one-hour has been a strong performer on Tuesdays in the post-“American Idol”…
Rehr’s Agenda Includes Retransmission Consent Compensation
National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO David Rehr said Friday that one of his top goals as the association’s new chief will be to promote station efforts to get retransmission consent compensation from cable. “It is only a matter…
NBC Pulls ‘Joey’
After “Joey’s” underwhelming performance this week, NBC is pulling the “Friends” spinoff after only one airing in its new Tuesday 8 p.m. (ET) time slot. For March 14 and March 21 NBC will run an episode of the reality series…
NBC to Make More ‘Deal’
NBC is adding an additional eight episodes to its initial season order of its game show “Deal or No Deal” and will now officially schedule the hour-long series on two nights, Mondays and Fridays at 8 p.m. The extra episodes…
Robert Alter, CAB Founder, Dies
Robert Alter, the founder of the Cabletelevision Advertising bureau, died at home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., on Thursday from the effects of ALS. He was 77. Mr. Alter served as the CAB’s first president and CEO from 1980 to 1991. Most…
Young CEO Blames ‘Perfect Storm’ for Q4 Declines
Coming off a year that its chief executive described as “a perfect storm of negativity,” Young Broadcasting said Friday that it posted a wider fourth-quarter loss, hurt by a weak advertising market, a decline in network compensation and an absence…