NAB to Consider Industry Code of Conduct The National Association of Broadcasters late Thursday announced that the association’s executive committee is forming a special task force on responsible programming that will consider adopting a code of industry conduct. In a…
Martha Stewart Seeks New Trial Lawyers for convicted felon Martha Stewart have asked a federal judge for a new trial in her obstruction of justice case, claiming the domestic diva was robbed of a fair trail based on comments made…
Hinchey Introduces Bill to Roll Back FCC Ownership Cap, Resurrect Fairness Doctrine Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., late Tuesday introduced a wide-ranging bill that would roll back the Federal Communications Commission’s media ownership regulations, resurrect the fairness doctrine and break up…
Comcast Corp.’s G4 brand will dominate the merged cable network created by the purchase of TechTV, which was finalized last week, sources said. “It’s safe to say [the new network] will be called G4,” said Allan Singer, senior VP of…
Some key figures involved in advertising and media buying sounded an alarm during the recent children’s ad market, warning that this upfront could be the last. Those predictions may have been overstated, but they do have some basis in reality.At…
‘Jordan’ Gets Early Pickup NBC has renewed “Crossing Jordan” for another year. “Jordan,” which is in its third season, returned to NBC’s lineup four weeks ago and has consistently won its Sunday 10 p.m. time slot. It is averaging a…
Due to a bizarre legislative twist, the Federal Communications Commission may be powerless to prevent broadcasters from buying enough TV stations to reach as many as 78 percent of the nation’s TV homes, Tribune Broadcasting and TV network representatives have…
1. Recording artist Michelle Branch, second from left, gets together with Comcast’s David Klein, left, and Oxygen’s Geraldine Laybourne and Geoffrey Darby at the taping of Oxygen’s “Michelle Branch Custom Concert” March 11 in San Francisco.2. Documentary filmmakers Chris Hegedus,…
Tom Wolfe spent most of the last decade on the trail of New York local cable ads. These days, as Court TV’s affiliate ad sales VP, the majority of his energy goes into campaigns crafted to make the metro sales…
As ordered by a three-member arbitration panel, cable operator Cablevision Systems must carry the YES Network as part of its most popular pricing packages, a move that Cablevision said will hike the monthly price of its expanded basic cable service…