The new leadership of the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau has canceled the association’s annual national convention and will do some heavy-duty number crunching instead.New CAB President Sean Cunningham has spent the past four months meeting with media-buying agency chiefs, buyers and…
CSTV, the College Sports Television network, will produce and televise the NCAA championships of nine sports under a deal signed with CBS last week“We’re excited about having the regular season, conference championships and national championships,” said Brian Bedol, president and…
A common excuse for the lack of diversity in acting roles on TV used to be that there weren’t enough talented minority actors to choose from. But the truth was that the broadcast networks and studios just weren’t looking very…
KTLA-TV’s Willa Sandmeyer didn’t know she was seconds away from inadvertently making CNN’s California wildfire highlight reel.The veteran reporter was standing on a road in the residential area of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., giving her report. The fire was nearby, but…
Tribune’s game show strip “Family Feud” continued to uptrend for the week ending Oct. 19, taking over fourth place among game shows.“Feud” eclipsed King World’s “Hollywood Squares,” rising 5 percent week to week to a 2.1 household rating, according to…
“Hot Hawaiian Nights,” a 12-week series of one-hour concerts on KFVE-TV in Honolulu every summer, not only brings in sponsors for the Raycom Media-owned WB affiliate but also generates revenue through CD and DVD contracts of local artists.“We sell [the…
If the Motion Picture Association of America offers its top slot to Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., as widely expected, the industry may succeed in hiring away one of its most influential friends ever on Capitol Hill.That was the assessment of…
Some very important people think Ed Bleier has written a book that offers very important food for thought about how to make Thanksgiving stand for something more than surfeits of food and football. The former Warner Bros. and ABC executive’s…
Monday, Oct. 20, 2003-Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003TV Season Week No. 5The World Series helped propel Fox to a second consecutive week of wins in adults 18 to 49, with a 5/14, and total viewers, with 14.3 million.Top Show of the…
New studies on diversity in television, covered in a special section in this issue, show signs of hope. But a careful read shows that the networks are not yet fully grasping the concept.The studies seem to support the idea that…