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ABC Wins Four SAG Awards

ABC won four Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday, including wins for outstanding performance by an ensemble for both comedy and drama series.The casts of the dramatic plane crash mystery series “Lost” and the Sunday night serialized one-hour comedy “Desperate Housewives”…

NCTA Campaign Highlights Cable’s Role as Innovator

In an effort to beef up the cable TV industry’s image, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association unveiled a media campaign Monday to emphasize cable’s role as an innovative contributor to the nation’s economy. “Cable is a great American success…

Comedy Central Greenlights ‘Silverman’

Comedy Central has ordered six episodes of “The Sarah Silverman Programme” (working title), a half-hour scripted comedy series to premiere this summer, the network announced Monday. The show will star Ms. Silverman as herself, whose “absurd daily life will be…

Injured ‘World News Tonight’ Team Showing Signs of Improvement

ABC “World News Tonight” co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, who were injured Sunday by an improvised explosive device in Iraq, were showing signs of improvement Monday, according to an update issued by ABC News President David Westin, who…

Lacy Tapped as CEO of Meredith

Meredith Corp. said Monday that it has elected Stephen Lacy as president and CEO of the publishing and broadcasting company, succeeding William Kerr, who will become Meredith’s nonexecutive chairman.Mr. Lacy had been president and chief operating officer of the Des…

NFL Network to Carry Playoffs Run-Up Package

The NFL announced Saturday that NFL Network, the NFL’s two-year-old network, will televise a “run-up to the playoffs” package of eight prime-time regular-season NFL games starting in the 2006 season.Several companies, including Comcast’s OLN and an unnamed broadband company, were…

Ostroff to Pick and Choose CW’s Prime-Time Schedule

The creation of The CW comes at a crucial time in the series development process, as January is usually the month when networks sift through scripts they have bought and decide which lucky few get made into pilots.It also means…

News Infuses NATPE

Annual Meet Morphs in Face of Bombshell Announcements, Rapid Change

20 Years of GLAAD: A Force for Tolerance

Organization Works Within Industry for Accurate Portrayal of Gays

12 to Watch

TelevisionWeek zeroes in on the dynamite dozen-movers, shakers and deal-makers who will be in the mix in 2006. Beth Comstock Katie Couric Terry Denson Jennifer Feikin Peter Liguori Kevin Martin Sean McManus Rachael Ray Tom Rogers Mark Rosenthal Jeff Shell…