In a major judicial test for the Federal Communications Commission’s new media ownership rules, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has announced hearings Wednesday on a request to stay the agency’s controversial deregulation.FCC Chairman Michael Powell has refused to…
Telephone company BellSouth has announced plans to team up with DirecTV to offer telephone, Internet and video services in a bundled package to BellSouth’s 45 million customers. The plan would form the latest alliance between a telephone company and a…
Update from our home office, not in Sioux City, Iowa. Last week Blink wondered how David Letterman would mark his 10th anniversary on CBS and 22 years in late night. The answer is that CBS is planning a one-hour prime-time…
As part of new compensation packages that sent the cast of “Everybody Loves Raymond” back to work last week, cast members were made participants in the sitcom’s back-end, which sources said could generate nearly $1 billion in its first syndication…
The new Federal Communications Commission rules relaxing television station ownership restrictions officially take effect Thursday, but the windfall anticipated by station owners has not materialized.Instead, the value of individual TV stations, which was expected to explode, remains stagnant. Buyers and…
“We’re going to try to present video games in a way that’s never been seen on television before,” said Scott Fishman, producer of Spike TV’s new “Video Game Award Show.” “It’s about entertainment and about a celebration of the industry.”The…
NBC wants back into the big business of major league sports and has made its interests known to at least two pro sports leagues, Advertising Age reported.The General Electric-owned network all but dropped out of pro sports in recent years…
The WTVO Continental Coupon Book is the Young Broadcasting-owned ABC affiliate’s way of giving advertisers a print option with their TV buys.“We provide a multimedia platform of television, Internet and direct mail, and that has really worked well in this…
YES Sues AOL Time Warner YES Sues AOL Time Warner: The YES Network sued AOL Time Warner Friday, accusing the media giant’s cable unit of breach of contract for allowing cable subscribers the option of not paying for the sports…
‘Dateline’ Cuts Staff “Dateline NBC” last week laid off approximately 15 producers, associate producers and other off-air personnel. Sources say the reduction was forced on the newsmagazine show because it is being cut from three regularly scheduled nights (Sunday, Tuesday…