Television producer Caryn Mandabach announced today that she will leave Carsey-Werner-Mandabach after 20 years as producer and partner to form an independent television production company.“I’m formulating a company that I hope will have staying power,” she told TelevisionWeek. Ms. Mandabach…
Dick Askin, chairman of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, announced Wednesday that Michael Hoey, John Moffit and Spike Jones Jr. will produce the 2004 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for the seventh consecutive year.Mr. Hoey and Mr. Moffit…
CBS Entertainment President Nancy Tellem announced Wednesday Chris Sloan has been named VP, alternative programming, CBS Entertainment.Mr. Sloan will be responsible for overseeing the development and production of all CBS alternative programming, including reality series, game shows and other forms…
As cable and satellite operators continue to duke it out over subscribers, it appears the top two satellite providers are winning the customer-service battle.According to a J.D. Power & Associates study released Wednesday that examines consumer satisfaction with cable and…
Cox Communications’ biggest shareholder moved a step closer to taking the cable company private, announcing late Tuesday that it had formed a special committee to examine the buyout offer and that the committee had hired an investment bank to assist…
Lingering power and phone outages and other disruptions that have knocked homes out of Nielsen Media Research samples in the wake of Hurricane Charley have left three Florida markets without ratings since Friday. Fort Meyers, the 70th-largest TV market in…
As Hurricane Charley was bearing down Friday on the Florida Gulf Coast, AOL News said, its multi-source storm package was viewed more than 1 million times by AOL subscribers. In addition, AOL logged nearly 350,000 broadband and dial-up live video…
Even though the Olympics aired only three days during the week of Aug. 9-15, NBC easily won the prime- time ratings race, dominating the other networks in total viewers, adults 18 to 49 and adults 25 to 54, according to…
Television on the cellphone got a big boost this week when Sprint introduced a new phone that delivers video from CNN, NBC Universal, Fox Sports, The Weather Channel, E! and others at 15 frames per second. That’s much closer to…
Ad spending across all media rose 6.4 percent during the first half of 2004, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Monitor-Plus. Cable TV showed a 12.5 percent increase, network TV was up 7.5 percent and spot TV was…