WEEK-TV plays in Peoria. The Granite Broadcasting-owned NBC affiliate in East Peoria, Ill., reached the peak of news success 25 years ago and has remained at the summit since then. WEEK has been rated No. 1 in nearly every newscast…
Sony Pictures Television is revamping its lineup for “eBay-TV,” which is being developed for fall 2004. The distributor has reshot the pilot and added veteran television broadcaster Ahmad Rashad as co-host. Mr. Rashad joins the previously announced Molly Pesce to…
What if there were an auction, but nobody bid? That is the question facing Vivendi Universal as it awaits the arrival of a second round of bids due by Aug. 18 for Universal’s U.S. entertainment assets. It is possible there…
Raycom Media-owned NBC affiliate WMC-TV in Memphis signed on in 1948 as the first station in Tennessee, and it has been No. 1 for most of its 55 years. Its 5 p.m. news has claimed victory in every book since…
Fox stole a page from cable’s playbook and was rewarded with a ratings bump for “The O.C.”After airing the first episode three times in one week, Fox ran the second episode of “The O.C.” and saw a 21 percent bump…
After Carson, Calif., factory worker Patricia Frierson won $91 million in the California SuperLotto Plus game, she was asked who she would be supporting in the gubernatorial recall election. She thought for a second and then said Arnold Schwarzenegger, “because…
Vivendi Shares Decline as Bidding Deadline Arrives Shares in Vivendi Universal slipped more than 2.5 percent Monday to close at $17.06 as Wall Street awaited word on who would be entering the second round of bidding for Vivendi Universal Entertainment….
Atlanta’s ABC affiliate, WSB-TV, had crushed the local competition for so long that 10 years ago, the station’s general manager Greg Stone decided to raise the bar. He wanted the Cox-owned station to win across the board against all stations…
What some East Coast NBC interns did this summer would turn some producers green with envy: They pitched projects they had developed to network executives.The interns participated in a new pilot program created by NBC staffing manager Carrie Maltese.From the…
Door to Door * TNT * A Rosemont Productions International production in association with Angel/Brown Productions;David A. Rosemont, executive producer; Dan Angel, executive producer; Billy Brown, executive producer; Forest Whitaker, co-executive producer; Robert J. King, Co-executive producer; Warren Carr, producerHomeless…