CSTV Scores Deal With CBS
Upstart College Sports Television is getting caught up in March Madness.
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Michael Camacho
CAA agent Michael Camacho first met his client Mike Fleiss right after Mr. Fleiss finished producing the Fox special “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?” The special brought Fox huge ratings but also a big controversy when it was later…
Joe Uva: Where Are They Now?
Under Joe Uva, media buying agency OMD won worldwide new business growth of more than $1.7 billion last year, winning the global accounts of two clients: McDonald’s and GE. Although it did not reprise its $1 billion agencywide buy with…
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Martin Scorsese to Oversee USA’s ‘Frankenstein’ Director Martin Scorsese will executive produce an adaptation of “Frankenstein” for USA, the network announced Friday. Pre-production has begun in Los Angeles on the two-hour pilot for a limited series. Other executive producers on…
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Shock Jock Stern Gets Prime-Time ABC Special Syndicated radio shock jock and self-declared “king of all media” Howard Stern has an order for a prime-time special on ABC. According to an ABC spokesman, the hour will feature Mr. Stern, “not…
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Liberty Increases Stake in News Corp. John Malone’s Liberty Media became the largest shareholder in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Wednesday, purchasing an additional 9.15 percent stake in the media company with a combination of cash and share swaps. Englewood, Colo.-based…
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UPN Sixth Night of Programming Under Consideration Optimism about ground gained emanated from the weekend UPN affiliates advisory board gathering in Las Vegas, where CBS President Leslie Moonves, who oversees UPN, said expansion to a sixth night of programming will…
Net Chiefs: Old Rules Out of Date
It’s broke, so let’s fix it. That was the message broadcast television executives conveyed to TV critics last week at the Television Critics Association press tour in Hollywood. After a fall season in which much of the new programming fell…
Best Television Series – Drama
* “24” (Fox)* “CSI” (CBS)* “Nip/Tuck” (FX)* “Six Feet Under” (HBO)* “The West Wing” (NBC)2003 Winner: “The Shield” (FX)2002 Winner: “Six Feet Under” (HBO)2001 Winner: “The West Wing” (NBC)
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Sci Fi Gets ‘Andromeda’The Sci Fi Channel and Tribune Entertainment Co. entered into a program license agreement for Tribune’s weekly action hour “Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda.” In addition to presenting the fifth and final season of “Andromeda” next fall as an…