CNN won an injunction late Friday to prevent any agency from limiting the cable news network’s ability to cover any aspect of the Hurricane Katrina story. CNN asked for the injunction Friday afternoon as it filed a lawsuit against the…
In a move that could throw cold water on the phone companies’ plan to roll out video services in Texas, cable operators there filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a law that would have allowed the phone companies to…
Waterman Broadcasting Corp., licensee of WBBH-TV, Fort Myers, Fla., and Montclair Communications, licensee of WZVN-TV in Naples, Fla., on Friday asked the Federal Communications Commission’s enforcement bureau to scrap $24,000 fines the bureau assessed against each of the stations for…
A few syndicated strips started the 2005-06 season with improved numbers over last year, while the queen of daytime television brought in big ratings with her special Hurricane Katrina coverage.Warner Bros.’ third-season debut of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” scored a…
The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled an open meeting for Sept. 15 that will focus on the impact that Hurricane Katrina has had on communications services in the Gulf Coast states.In a joint statement, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Commissioner…
Kevin Conroy, executive VP of AOL Media Networks, has joined the panel for TelevisionWeek‘s first Power Breakfast in New York, which takes place Sept. 14 at the Grand Hyatt New York. He will speak on “Game Changers: Advertising and Programming…
Sony Pictures Television President Steve Mosko has been chosen to receive the 2005 Vision Award from JTN Productions. The announcement was made Friday by Jay Sanderson, CEO of the company. The award will be presented at a dinner Tuesday, Nov….
The live, one-hour all-broadcast network telethon scheduled for Friday to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina will have a 30-second delay, according to the special’s executive producer.Joel Gallen, who is producing “Shelter From the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf…
ABC will become the first English-language broadcast network to provide all prime-time entertainment programming in Spanish via a combination of closed-captioning and dubbing.Returning dramas “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” and new fall comedy “Freddie” will be dubbed into Spanish. The returning…
A memorial service for Peter Jennings, the ABC News anchor who died of lung cancer in early August, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, at Carnegie Hall. While the bulk of people expected to attend will be…