After the Super Bowl, CBS is planning a Super Monday, and Ford Motor Co. has paid an estimated $3.5 million to promote its new Freestar minivan during the network’s prime-time and late-night programming that day. Ford will be the only…
In June Jeff Fager is going home to “60 Minutes,” where he spent five years. He returns as the successor to Don Hewitt, the series’ iconic founder and father figure who could no longer stave off pressure from CBS to…
Jerry Nachman, the MSNBC VP and editor -in chief who was one of the most well-known, outside-the-box and colorful characters in his generation of television newsmen, died Jan. 19 at his home in Hoboken, N.J. He was 57 and had…
Monday, Jan. 12, 2004-Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., introduced legislation last week to jack up the maximum fine for an indecent broadcast from $27,500 to $275,000. The maximum fine for a “continuing violation” would be raised from $300,000 to $3 million. Federal Communications Commission…
As president of Telepictures Productions, Jim Paratore spent the year developing reality shows for Warner Bros. Television’s production unit. As executive VP of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, he helped get Warner Bros. programs seen in syndication and on cable….
It would be nice to be No. 1. And CBS President of Sales Jo Ann Ross, the first woman to head a broadcast network ad sales operation, may find herself pushing the top network in the key 18 to 49…
The most intriguing reality show at the National Association of Television Program Executives conference last week was the discussion among industry executives-both on the event’s super-panels and in back-hall huddles-who finally are resigned to dramatically changing their cost and price…
Increased friction between the radio and TV board members on the National Association of Broadcasters burst into flames last week, with some board sources vowing to oust Phil Lombardo, the organization’s new chairman.
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat, ran circles around the agency’s Republican majority last year, turning their effort to scrap media ownership restrictions into one of the more controversial and publicized agency proceedings on record. Mr. Copps lacked the…