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NBC Olympic Ratings Soar
Thursday night’s Olympics broadcast on NBC, featuring Michael Phelps’ gold medal swim and Carly Patterson’s all-around gymnastics win, drew a 19.3 rating and 32 share, up 30 percent from the comparable night during the 2000 Sydney Games. Thursday night’s 19.3…
NBC Takes Dispute With Paxson to Delaware Court
NBC on Friday asked a Delaware court to decide whether Paxson Communications redeem NBC’s 32 percent stake in the beleaguered broadcaster, intensifying a months-long tussle between the two companies over a payment NBC claims it is entitled to.Filed in the…
NBC News Proclaims Ebersol’s Authority at Olympics
NBC News on Friday issued an unusual statement rising to the defense of NBC Universal Sports and Olympics Chairman Dick Ebersol’s personnel and attacking a story that portrayed a phalanx of NBC News people at the Olympics in Athens as…
ESPN Communications Assistant Dies
Linda Rekant, an assistant to ESPN Senior VP of Communications Rosa Gatti, has died after a battle with cancer, the network said Friday. Ms. Rekant joined ESPN in 1985 and was an active participant in the network’s V Foundation for…
Cox Purchases Remaining Stake in TCA Cable Partners
Cox Communications on Friday agreed to buy the 25 percent stake in TCA Cable Partners that it didn’t already own for $153 million cash.The transaction hands Cox full control of TCA Cable’s 260,000 customers, most of whom are in Arkansas…
Emmy Pre-Show Gets Friendly
Andy Friendly has signed on as executive producer of ABC’s “Countdown to the Emmys 2004.” The hour-long program will broadcast live from the red carpet at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and lead into the “56th Annual Primetime Emmy…
PamAmSat Sale Completed
DirecTV Group said Friday that it has completed the all-cash $2.6 billion sale of its 80.4 percent interest in PanAmSat Corp. to a private-equity team that includes Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co., The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners.The completion…
Matenopoulos, Neville Join ‘Good Day Live’
Twentieth Television has found its co-anchors for “Good Day Live,” naming Debbie Matenopoulos and Arthel Neville to join Steve Edwards on the nationally syndicated strip. The duo will join the program Monday, Aug. 30, with current co-host Dorothy Lucey continuing…