Fox Television Stations President Tom Herwitz has left the group with which he has been associated since being named VP and general manager of WTTG-TV, Washington, nearly two decades ago. “We’ve come an awfully long way since we started with…
After serving for three years as president and chief operating officer of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and its foundation, Todd Leavitt is stepping down from the organization.He will remain in his present capacity for the near future…
House Republicans on Wednesday proposed to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as part of a major initiative to help the government pay for the mammoth recovery costs associated with Hurricane Katrina. In a report, the GOP…
Viacom-owned UPN station WUPL-TV in New Orleans reports that all of its 40-plus employees have been accounted for and are safe, though many have lost homes and are spread around the country with other evacuees. WUPL said a core group…
In a move that should answer a lot of questions about the fate of their partnership, EchoStar Communications and SBC Communications late Tuesday revised the terms of their strategic alliance, transforming it into an arrangement in which SBC is more…
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons said Monday that while he might consider spinning off a larger share of the company’s cable unit or increasing the share of its stock buyback, the media giant’s real growth opportunity rests with…
Telephone giant Verizon Communications continued to rack up carriage agreements ahead of the official launch of its television service FiOS, inking a distribution agreement with The Walt Disney Co. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, involved carrying 12…
Comcast Tuesday officially named Neal Tiles president of G4 and Dale Hopkins chief operating officer, replacing founder Charles Hirschhorn at the network’s helm. The moves were reported Monday in TelevisionWeek. Mr. Tiles had been VP of marketing for DirecTV. Ms….
Two high-profile football games propelled ABC to a win the first night of the 2005-06 season, but CBS’s season premiere of the 10 p.m. (ET) procedural “CSI: Miami” took top honors in the adults 18 to 49 demographic.“CSI: Miami” scored…
The Hollywood Radio & Television Society’s board of directors has unanimously re-elected Andy Friendly president of the organization. Mr. Friendly will begin serving the 2005-06 term this month. Mr. Friendly, a television producer, is president of Andy Friendly Productions, a…