CNN, L.A. Times to Sponsor Gubernatorial Debate CNN and the Los Angeles Times will sponsor a debate among Gov. Gray Davis and the major candidates running for governor in California’s recall campaign. The debate will be in Los Angeles on…
Garrett to Return to ‘Raymond’ Actor Brad Garrett is expected to return to work on the set of CBS comedy series “Everybody Loves Raymond” on Wednesday, after reaching a new compensation agreement Tuesday. As part of his new deal, Mr….
He looks so lean, tough, seasoned and sincere playing Detective Lennie Briscoe on the hit series “Law & Order” that you might not realize how genuinely nice, relaxed and easy to be around Jerry Orbach is in real life. One…
Call it a bonanza that many TV stations don’t want.At least seven or eight of the 135 candidates running for governor of California are gearing up to buy advertising time in the coming weeks. But many television stations in the…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell’s inquiry into broadcast localism could become a regulatory nightmare for the TV industry, despite widespread initial efforts to downplay the significance of the proceeding, industry sources said.In the immediate aftermath of the chairman’s announcement…
It’s turning out to be one of the great ironies of the media buying business. For years now the media industry has been fretting over how the consolidation of the big buying shops might impact their ability to sell advertising….
By the end of the first season of Sony Pictures TV’s “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” revival on TBS Superstation four years ago, the show’s executive producer, Dan Jbara, was “just happy” to have made it through the initial order….
Dick Askin, as expected, has been elected chairman of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.Mr. Askin, who is president and CEO of Tribune Entertainment, will take office Oct. 1. He replaces Bryce Zabel, who has been chair for the…
General Electric’s NBC is uniquely positioned to acquire Vivendi Universal Entertainment using no cash or stock in what looks like a $14 billion deal. It could then squeeze at least $400 million in initial cost savings and synergies from the…
* In “Premium Is on Access, Selection” (TelevisionWeek, Aug. 18), Cablevision Systems Corp. CEO James Dolan said: “My job as chairman of the Garden is to keep continuity with [a team of managers], to provide an environment where those guys…