The Insider
The Insider wants to know the name of The Museum of Moving Images’ psychic! How else to explain the prescient choice of NBC Chairman Bob Wright and Cox Communications President Jim Robbins as honorees at its annual fall gala. The…
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“It means more to me now. When I was a kid, my team had no hope for a World Series. I’m a Cleveland Indians fan and we had no chance. I was an adult in the mid- to late 1990s,…
Editorial: NATPE Conference Deserves Rebirth
When NATPE secured commitments from CBS Enterprises (comprising King World and CBS Broadcast International), Carsey-Werner-Mandabach and Universal’s domestic and international operations to return to the convention floor in January, it was a positive step in the evolution of an organization…
Bada-Bing, buy the book
He isn’t a double agent, but you might say New Yorker Gil Schwartz does have a double life. Most days he is at his desk as CBS’s personable communications chief. Last week, however, he could be found on Manhattan’s Upper…
The Ratings Wizard
Monday, Sept. 29, 2003-Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003TV Season Week No. 2It was status quo in week two of the new TV season, with NBC taking the adults 18 to 49 title with a 4.2/12 and CBS winning total viewers with…
HEYWARD REFLECTS ON SUCCESS
The evening of Oct. 13 promises to be among the more memorable of Andrew Heyward’s professional life. Not only did CBS lead among networks in winning eight of the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s Edward R. Murrow Awards, but the spoils…
Breaking News Archives
UPN Full-Season Pickups of ‘All of Us,’ ‘Eve’ UPN gave full season orders to two of its new sitcoms-“All of Us” and “Eve.” “All of Us,” executive produced by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, helped launch UPN’s new Tuesday…
Sweeney in ABC Family Way
ABC Family is now in Anne Sweeney’s family.In a corporate reorganization, the cable network, acquired two years ago by The Walt Disney Co. for $6 billion, will fully become part of the ABC Cable Networks Group, headed by Ms. Sweeney,…
KTUU Has 17 Years at No. 1
Amid all the talk of media ownership rules, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, is making a case for mom-and-pop ownership.KTUU-TV has ranked No. 1 in all its newscasts for the past 17 years and is slated to receive the…
FCC Challenges Open-Access Ruling
The FCC plans to appeal a federal appeals court decision last week that threw a wrench into the cable TV industry’s growing broadband business by raising the prospect that operators may have to open their networks to competing Internet service…