By Daisy WhitneyAdvertising Age Media agency Carat USA has created a think tank to brainstorm the next generation of interactive-TV-ad models before they hit the small screen. The group, hatched through the newly formed Carat Digital division, includes Carat advertisers,…
ABC Drama Is That Rare Show on Which Critics, Viewers Agree; CBS’s ‘Center of the Universe’ Voted Worst
Hopkins Acura and sister dealership Hopkins Honda wanted to do something to significantly increase their name awareness in the San Francisco designated market area and to highlight one of their cool, fast cars. So they turned to Comcast Spotlight, but…
Television critics dutifully selected those networks they felt provided the best and worst political coverage for the Winter 2005 Critics Poll, but many emphasized that nearly all the channels failed to adequately cover the election. “The general lack of investigative…
Stephen Davis, president of Granada America, and John Weiser, president of distribution for Sony Pictures Television, who serve as co-chairmen of the National Association of Television Program Executives, have each been nominated to a second term at NATPE, the organization’s…
The battle over the inclusion of a shareholder proposal in The Walt Disney Co.’s 2005 proxy took another turn Thursday when four public pension funds asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to reconsider a decision that permits Disney to block…
Comcast, Southern California Region, today said it will offer a preview of TV One beginning Dec. 15 to subscribers of its Digital Classic package. TV One will be available on Channel 168. The official launch of the channel, owned by…
With the majority of syndicated shows either flat or slightly down for the week ended Dec. 19, Telepictures’ “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” hit an all-time ratings high.“Ellen” scored a 2.4 household rating, up 9 percent from the previous week, according…
Walt Disney Co. shareholders looking to nominate their own slate of directors to the media giant’s board suffered a setback Tuesday when Securities and Exchange Commission staff reversed itself and said that Disney could withhold from its 2005 proxy a…
Jerry Orbach, whose 12-year role as wisecracking “Law & Order” Det. Lennie Briscoe capped a long and varied career, died in a Manhattan hospital Tuesday night of prostate cancer. He was 69.Mr. Orbach had been diagnosed with and treated for…