Former executives from E!, Speedvision and The Travel Channel are rolling the dice on a new digital network called Casino and Gaming Television. “We’re confident our audience will be large enough and passionate enough to support a 24-hour network centered…
It’s all about the buzz.A show may be launched with a lot of noise through publicity, marketing and promotion, but it has buzz only when its reputation is enhanced through critical acclaim and word of mouth among friends, around the…
Whatever the Arnold Schwarzenegger era brings to California’s state government, his election as governor is already bringing one positive effect: Broadcasters, at least in California, have begun to pay closer attention to government affairs.Evidence that stations are moving in that…
It’s no secret that people often do other things while watching TV. What isn’t as well known is how those other activities impact the attention viewers pay to TV programming and, more important for media planners, TV commercials.Market researchers might…
I was kidnapped at knifepoint a few months back, by a fat guy who looked like Roger Ailes and a thin guy who looked like Bill O’Reilly-though I certainly do not mean to state, imply or even raise the possibility…
Continuing efforts to aggressively ramp up their theatrical acquisition activity, A&E Networks and Lifetime Television have cut deals with Paramount Domestic Television to share the broadcast window for the feature film “The Hours,” which received nine Academy Award nominations and…
* In “Fox Net, Affils Settle NFL Tab” (TelevisionWeek, Oct. 20) Robert Quicksilver is president of distribution and affiliate relations for Fox Broadcasting.* In “PBS Facing Crisis” (TelevisionWeek, Oct. 20), Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, wrote in a…
Notes from the gathering at New York’s Tao in honor of “Law & Order: SVU” having reached the 100th-episode milestone: When the crowd wasn’t talking about the centennial episode, which is scheduled to air Nov. 18 and marks the first…
“The scariest person on TV is Carrot Top. Have you seen him? He’s positively demonic! The scariest show on TV is `Dark Stars’ on The Biography Channel. I would hate to have Nick Nolte or Gary Busey show up at…
It started out as a one-time, one-hour documentary special focusing on how psychics have helped police solve some of their toughest cases.But the show, “Psychic Detectives,” ended up marking another watershed in the ongoing evolution of Court TV. When the…