Ted Kotcheff was between films in 1999 after a critically and commercially successful career in his native Canada and in Great Britain and the United States that had included directing such landmark movies as the cult classic “The Apprenticeship of…
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TV Guide Channel Working With E! to Free Up Mother-and-Daughter Duo
San Francisco’s NBC-owned KNTV will finally be able to restore service to the 400,000 people in the Bay Area who had not been to watch the channel for the last three years. When KNTV jumped from serving the Monterey/Salinas designated…
Telecom Company to Upgrade Data-Transmission Infrastructure
CBS broke into prime-time programming Wednesday night to report the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, but the scoop will be the last at CBS News for one employee.The staffer, a senior producer at CBS’s “Up to the Minute” was…
Sinclair Broadcast Group on Friday said it had sold for $26.8 million the non-license assets of KSMO-TV in Kansas City, Kan., to Meredith Broadcasting and at the same time inked a joint sales agreement under which Meredith will manage many…
Adelphia Communications is not encouraging a consortium of private-equity firms to jointly submit a bid for the bankrupt cable operator, and Adelphia CEO William Schleyer isn’t working with the consortium considering a play for the company, a person familiar with…
News Corp. on Friday said it had completed its reincorporation to the United States, transforming the Australian-based media giant into an American company.As part of the move, News Corp. Class A nonvoting and Class B voting shares on Friday began…