To help launch its new fall shows, CBS will get promotional help from Viacom sister companies VH1, Comedy Central and the CBS-owned station group. VH1 will air an hour-long special, “VH1 Goes Inside Survivor”-which includes exclusive interviews and clips from…
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Neighborhood resistance and rising home rental prices, combined with the rabbit-like proliferation of reality shows, are making it more challenging for producers to find the mansions they use to house contestants during multi-week shoots. Malibu, Calif., was a popular destination…
National Football League Current Contract: $17.6 billion, from ABC, ESPN, CBS and Fox; Term: 1999-2006; Net Breakdown: ABC: $4.4 billion (“Monday Night Football”); CBS: $4.0 billion (AFC games), Fox: $4. 4 billion (NFC games); ESPN: $4.8 billion (“Sunday Night Football”);…
Are you ready for some football? When it comes to Monday night, even though the ratings have been trending downward over the past several years, the answer apparently remains resoundingly yes. Since the days of Dandy Don Meredith and Howard…
Monday, Aug. 25, 2003-Sunday, Aug. 31, 2003 TV Season Week No. 49 “For Love or Money 2” helped NBC win the adults 18 to 49 demo with a 2.6/8. CBS’s “Big Brother 4” boosted the network to a close second…
The floodgates are open and new companies sense the profit potential of the domestic Hispanic market, which encompasses the 38.8 million resident Latinos in the United States and their projected buying power of $764 billion within two years. There’s a…
It wouldn’t be an insult to say that Steve Zirnkilton, better known as the signature voice of “Law & Order” and its progeny, phones it in. The busy voice man is the ultimate telecommuter. In 1997, he installed an ISDN-equipped…
The Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop Oct. 29 to assess how well voluntary entertainment industry efforts to check the marketing of violence to children are working. In a statement, the FTC said the workshop’s goal is to give…
Fox Cable Network Group’s new extreme-action sports network, Fuel, may not have much name recognition and only limited carriage. But it has quickly signed up a number of national advertisers, who see it as a way to reach an audience…