CBS Continues Sweeps Lead
| Ratings | Network Winning in Total Viewers, Most Male, Female Demos
In Depth
ABC, ESPN Need Deal With NFL
| Sports | Must Pin Down ‘MNF, ‘ Sunday Games After Losing Bowls to Fox
Advertisers Not Swayed by Fights
| Sports | Executives Say Brawls Won’t Drive Away Sponsors
Diversity Name of LMNO’s Game
| Programming | Spreads Its Projects Over Cable
NBC Sports/Olympics Chairman Ebersol Injured in Plane Crash
The crash of a chartered jet on takeoff in Colorado Sunday morning left NBC Sports and Olympics Chairman Dick Ebersol, 57, and one son seriously injured and another son missing and presumed dead. The pilot and a flight attendant were…
Chernin’s Contract Permits Departure for Disney
News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin is free to jump ship for a top job at a competing media company, and doesn’t even have to give notice to do it, according to a filing with the Securities…
Cotton to Head Icon TV
Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions has formally created a television wing of the company, Icon TV, and made its current television executive, senior VP Nancy Cotton, the division’s new president.Icon had all three of its pilots picked up as series this…
DirecTV To Drop Trio from Lineup by Year-End
DirecTV Group will drop the Trio channel from its lineup at the end of the year, once again raising questions about the future of the struggling cable network owned by NBC Universal.The loss of DirecTV as a distributor is a…
Political Ad Spending in Top Markets Surges
Political candidates, parties and independent groups spent a record $1.6 billion for TV ads this year in the nation’s 100 largest media markets, more than twice the amount spent in those markets during the 2000 presidential campaign, according to the…
Many Syndies Rise in First Full Week of Sweeps
The week ended Nov. 14 was a good one for a number of syndicated shows, thanks in part to stations getting up to speed for the first full week of the November sweeps.Among rookie strips, Paramount’s “The Insider” continued to…