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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Four executives-three of them from NBC-will play big roles in the completion of the $14 billion merger of General Electric’s NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment and are likely to figure prominently in the newly merged company as well.In the wake…
The calendar is filling in with dates for 2004 affiliate gatherings, which may include the first full-blown national convention for ABC affiliates since the late ’90s.ABC is giving strong consideration to scheduling a multi-day, family-friendly affair at parent company Disney’s…
For a change, baseball is being very, very good to Fox.In past seasons the Major League Baseball playoffs and World Series have disrupted Fox’s fall schedule launch plans and produced declining ratings. But this season the games have been exciting,…
Findings from the first ad-supported video-on-demand test by a major cable TV operator suggest that viewers will gravitate to long-form advertising if they feel they have a variety of unique and entertaining options from which to choose. Cox Media, a…
Bankrupt satellite producer and operator Loral Space & Communications last week rejected EchoStar Communications’ $1.85 billion offer to buy all of its assets, saying the bid was too low. EchoStar’s latest offer, which had been upped from a previous bid…