Cablevision Systems said Monday the costs associated with the shutdown of failed satellite service Voom could be as high as $130 million. But the company said the impact would not be significant to the bottom line because the sale of…
Viacom co-President and co-Chief Operating Officer Leslie Moonves on Monday repeated his commitment to pursue retransmission fees from cable operators, saying that although it might take three to five years before he can start charging cable to carry the CBS…
Sinclair Broadcast Group on Monday said it is selling its 17.5 percent stake in Atlantic Automotive, an automobile dealer group in the Mid-Atlantic region, as the company heeds shareholders’ desire to end the company’s investment in the dealer group.Baltimore-based Sinclair…
Thirteen-year CNN veteran Miles O’Brien is leaving Atlanta and the anchor desk of “Live From” to co anchor the news network’s “American Morning” with Soledad O’Brien in New York.“In a morning television landscape littered with mindless entertainment, there will be…
Adelphia Communications and ML Media Partners said Monday they have agreed to sell their cable system in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to a private-equity team that includes cable industry veteran Jeffrey Marcus.The $520 million deal has the two private-equity firms…
Radio One, the radio broadcaster that holds a 36 percent stake in cable channel TV One, on Monday said its board has authorized the company to launch a stock buyback program for up $150 million of its class A and…
Affordable Tools Spur Production of Stories Told in Radical Ways
During the two-part pilot for ABC’s hit drama “Lost,” Terry O’Quinn’s character, John Locke, stayed in the background, one of the dozens of shell-shocked survivors wandering the beach of a mysterious island following the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Viewers…
About two weeks before ABC’s upfront for advertisers last month in New York, one of the architects behind several of the network’s hits was busy with a different presentation for TV advertisers. Susan Lyne, who had been president of ABC…
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