“Nickelodeon’s Let’s Just Play Finish Line Festival” airing live Saturday from L.A. celebrates the first year of a grass-roots campaign with the Boys and Girls Clubs to get kids more physically active and encourage healthy lifestyles. The hosts are “U-Pick…
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On the day after the Emmy Awards, network consultant Ray Solley of The Solley Group hosted a roundtable gathering of industry experts to discuss the show and determine the greater implications of the nominees and winners. What followed were debates…
Two years after the American Comedy Awards were discontinued, Comedy Central will reinvent the humorist salute with the first “Commies.” The show, scheduled to tape at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif., on Nov. 22 and air on Comedy Central…
The fact that cable-not broadcast-is quickly becoming the most fertile ground to nurture the careers of TV talent was never more evident than at the Emmy Awards telecast earlier this month.Three of the four top acting trophies went to performers…
NBA TV, a basketball-themed network owned and operated by the National Basketball Association, is expected to announce today that it has signed its first three cable operators to distribution deals. The network already has carriage deals with satellite operators DirecTV…
This year Major League Baseball celebrates the 100th anniversary of the World Series and marketers are buying into the 2003 fall classic on Fox faster and earlier than last year, according to the network and media buyers. The 2003 Series…
“Sex and the City’s” Sarah Jessica Parker, with hubby Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall, made it to HBO’s post-awards bash at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, but Cynthia Nixon went home early, saying she wasn’t feeling…
This year there seems to be more grumbling than usual about a number of the recent Emmy winners. Some of the most notable grousing surrounded the supporting acting choices. Were Brad Garrett and Doris Roberts really Emmy-worthy again this year?…
If the burst of activity this month is an accurate barometer, then the promises made about high-definition television over the past several years may be fulfilled. In September alone iN Demand introduced two linear HD channels; EchoStar rolled out a…