SNTA to Hold 2004 Conferences in Three Cities The Syndicated Network Television Association is moving beyond New York next year. The trade group announced plans to hold its spring sales conferences in New York (March 11, 2004), Chicago (March 15…
If product placement is the wave of the future, where is the steady flow of Starbucks lattes on “Will & Grace,” or the bags of Lay’s Potato Chips on “King of Queens”?The answer is that apart from a few hit…
CBS is the only network that is up year to year in adults 18 to 49 and total viewers halfway through November sweeps. CBS is up 2 percent in adults 18 to 49 and 11 percent in total viewers. NBC…
Repurposing broadcast network series on cable networks hasn’t turned out to be the economic game changer many predicted it would be when those deals were at the height of popularity a few years ago. Only two years ago, there was…
Newsmagazine distributors got an early holiday present as ratings for weekend editions and strips received ratings jolts at the end of daylight-saving time, which coincided with the onset of November sweeps.Despite pre-emptions on the West Coast due to the Southern…
‘Survivor’ Gets Plum Post-Super Bowl Slot CBS will premiere “Survivor: All-Stars” following the Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1. The “All-Star” edition — the series’ eighth — will feature 18 of the most memorable previous contestants fighting it out for the…
In a highly unusual instance of cooperation between a cable operator and a local broadcast station, the CBS affiliate in Kansas City, Mo., plans to eliminate its in-house sports news department and replace it on the air with reports from…
Following five months of regional tests, Twentieth Television is giving daytime syndicated makeover strip “Ambush Makeover” a national launch beginning September 2004.The series, in which stylists from around the country give show participants guidance on their looks, premiered July 7,…
Some TV shows just don’t go away quietly. Such is the case with “EastEnders,” which was canceled in September on BBC America, though it is still hugely popular in the United Kingdom, where it attracts up to 20 million viewers…
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but NBC affiliate WFLA-TV, a Media General station in Tampa, Fla., probably would just as soon do without the attention it has received for its decision to run paid interview segments…