Fresh remodel CNN Washington bureau chief Kathryn Kross was set to play hostess Friday night, Sept. 12, at a party celebrating the completion of a seven-figure Cinderella-esque makeover of what was the dowdiest network bureau in the nation’s capital. Now…
Monday, Sept. 1, 2003-Sunday, Sept. 7, 2003TV Season Week No. 50ABC and NBC tied in the adults 18 to 49 demo with a 3.0/9. Strong performances from ABC’s NFL Football and NBC’s “Fear Factor” propelled the networks to first-place spots…
Jim Robbins does not head the biggest cable operation, but he has molded arguably one of the best. Mr. Robbins joined the company then known as Cox Cable Communications in 1983 as a division vice president. Within two years he…
In 1992, the Walter Kaitz Foundation collectively honored the Kaitz Fellows, members of the first eight fellowship classes. For most of its history, the Kaitz Foundation sought to recruit highly qualified minorities for management or professional positions in the cable…
Event was canceled due to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
Television station valuations are in jeopardy as broadcasters wait a year or more for the courts, Congress and regulators to determine the fate of deregulation rules passed in June by the Federal Communications Commission.Many broadcasters said they expected court challenges…
J. Richard Munro spent a lot of time at Time. Rising from magazine circulation clerk to publisher of Sports Illustrated and later head of the video division at Time Inc., Mr. Munro helped launch the television empire that would become…
Walt Disney Co.’s ABC Family cable network is finally getting into the family act-that of the integrated marketing and product integration deals with advertisers for which its parent company is known.Some two years after Walt Disney bought the network, which…
ABC is asking its affiliates and its owned stations to contribute additional promo time to support one of the network’s most aggressive fall launch campaigns. The death of ABC star John Ritter forced the cancellation of a closed-circuit presentation Friday…
Growing up in rural North Dakota, Decker Anstrom was more interested in baseball than in television. In fact, his family didn’t even get its first TV set until Mr. Anstrom went away to college.A graduate of Macalester College in St….