Martha Stewart’s legal troubles continued to loom over her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which reported Wednesday that it swung to a fourth-quarter loss due to persistent weakness in its television and publishing divisions.The company reported a loss of $7.2…
Vulcan Chairman Paul Allen, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and Walt Disney Co. President Robert Iger are among the speakers slated for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference. Organizers announced the speaker list Tuesday for the conference, scheduled for April…
CNN is combining the Justice Department, homeland security and national security beats into one unit dubbed the America Bureau. Shirley Hung, a 10-year CNN veteran most recently a senior producer in CNN’s Washington newsroom, will be the America Bureau’s executive…
Twentieth Television announced Tuesday it has cleared its new newsmagazine strip “A Current Affair” in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Raleigh, N.C. The half-hour weekday strip has been cleared on KPIX-TV in San Francisco, KVVU-TV in Las Vegas and WRAZ-TV…
Litton Entertainment announced Tuesday that it has cleared its new one-hour weekly “HomeTeam” on seven NBC owned-and-operated stations. KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, KNTV in San Francisco, WTVJ-TV in Miami, KNSD-TV in San Diego, WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio,…
Cable operator Mediacom Communications continued to fall victim to the growth of satellite, reporting a 72 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit.The Middletown, N.Y.-based company posted a fourth-quarter profit of nearly $2 million, versus a year-earlier profit of $7.1 million, amid…
Cablevision and News Corp. on Tuesday restructured their ownership of their jointly owned sports and entertainment assets, with Cablevision taking control of the New York-based properties held in the partnership.In the move, structured as a generally tax-free exchange of assets,…
Fisher Reports Smaller Q4 Profit Fisher Communications, the Seattle-based owner of nine network-affiliated television stations and 27 radio stations, reported a fourth-quarter profit of $4.5 million, versus a year-earlier profit of $19.8 million that was largely attributed to a series…
Sitcom, Variety Genres Have History of Showcasing Black Talent
By Sheree R. CurrySpecial to TelevisionWeek The 36th NAACP Image Awards, set to tape Saturday, March 19, for broadcast the following week on Fox, processed a record-breaking 1,200-plus entries this year. A committee of 300 industry professionals and NAACP leaders…