The Summer Olympics in Athens remained a top prime-time television draw in their second week, with NBC once again easily winning the ratings race. According to Nielsen Media Research, the week of Aug. 23-29 belonged to NBC, with the top…
Nielsen Media Research has signed on media agency ZenithOptimedia Group, New York, as the first client for its product placement measuring service, Place*Views. The Web-based application will provide brand and product information that appears in television programming. Place*Views will show…
The Olympics helped boost MSNBC’s “Hardball With Chris Matthews” past CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” for the third time in five months, according to data from Nielsen Media Research.“Hardball” averaged 576,000 viewers for the Nielsen month of August (July 26-Aug. 27),…
In an effort to force the Federal Communications Commission to set final ground rules for the carriage of the broadcasting industry’s digital TV signals on cable, Paxson Communications has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to intervene. “It…
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association today announced that it has hired the executive search firm Korn/Ferry International to find a candidate to succeed Robert Sachs, the association’s president and CEO. After getting a cold shoulder from the association’s board,…
Gerald McRaney, star of the upcoming The WB sitcom “Commando Nanny,” underwent surgery Monday to remove a cancerous growth from his lung. Mr. McRaney’s publicist Henri Bollinger said in a statement his client had the procedure at MD Anderson Cancer…
The Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice announced today that they have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court decision that could subject cable’s high-speed Internet service to the same sort of common carrier regulation…
According to Nielsen Media Research, NBC’s Sunday night airing of the Athens Summer Olympic Games’ closing ceremony was another ratings gold medal.In the Nielsen fast nationals NBC garnered an 11.9 rating and 19 share from 7:30-11 p.m. among households, a…
Distributor Headed Into SNTA Fold; Sony Last Remaining Holdout
In the early 1990s one of the true visionaries of television, John Hendricks, founder of the Discovery Networks, invited me to a demonstration of a new technology he believed would revolutionize the world. It was called Your Choice TV. It…