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12 to Watch 2005: Robert Clasen
Business has been good since Robert Clasen, president and CEO of Starz Entertainment Group, joined the company in September 2003. After two weeks on board he helped settle a lawsuit with his former employer Comcast, which had relegated Starz! to…
12 to Watch 2005: Sen. Ted Stevens
Incoming Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, said he’s not ready to spell out the details of his legislative agenda on indecency or any of the other major media industry issues that his committee is charged with overseeing.But industry…
Golden Globes Preview: Best Musical/ Comedy Series
By Alan CarterSpecial to TelevisionWeek The great debate raging in Hollywood these days isn’t over the best platform for viewing movies at home or whether Michael Ovitz really should have been fired from Disney. The water cooler talk is all…
Watchdog Sets Sights on a la Carte
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2005 duPont Award Winners: ‘A Pattern of Suspicion’
Producers: NBC News and ‘Dateline’
12 to Watch 2005: Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks is used to having people wonder what she brings to the table when it comes to developing new projects. The supermodel faced such doubts when she first conceived of the idea for her reality series “America’s Next Top…
Golden Globes Preview: Williams Ready for His Close-Up
Foreign Press to Honor Veteran Actor With DeMille Award
2005 duPont Award Winners: ‘Ghosts of Rwanda’
Producers: ‘Frontline’ and WGBH-TV, Boston
Where Are They Now?: 12 of 2004: An Update
RYAN SEACRESTWhen Ryan Seacrest executive produced and hosted Fox’s New Year’s Eve countdown show from Times Square recently, he was marking the close of what was for him a very up-and-down year. His much-anticipated syndicated daytime show, “On-Air With Ryan…