Broadcast Outlines Digital Strategies
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Emmy Spotlight: Miniseries: Empire Falls
Richard Russo has done well by doing good work and keeping good company. His 2001 novel “Empire Falls” earned a Pulitzer Prize and was made into an HBO miniseries. The latter event may not have occurred if Paul Newman, who…
Nick Continues Saturday Streak
| Kids | Cable Net Rules Daypart for Eighth Consecutive Season
CNET Takes TV.com Live, Offers Advertising Play
By Kris OserAdvertising AgeTV.com has come full circle. Seven years ago CNET Networks registered the name for a $15,000 fee as a URL attached to a TV show about computers. Last week, on its 10th anniversary, CNET launched TV.com as…
Documentary TV: Channel Schedules Limited Series
‘Off to War,’ ‘America’ on Discovery Lineup
Emmy Spotlight: Reality-Competition Program: Amazing Race
By Lee Alan HillSpecial to TelevisionWeek Since the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences created the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program category in 2003, “The Amazing Race” has won the Emmy both times. As it shoots for No. 3, it has several…
‘Oprah’ Tops Strips as Daytime Surges
| Syndication | King World Talker Edges Siblings
Documentary TV: Genre Heats as Demand Grows
Affordable Tools Spur Production of Stories Told in Radical Ways
Emmy Spotlight: Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Terry O’Quinn
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…
Susan Lyne: Building the Brand
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…