Fox Discovers Summer Strategy
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…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: What’s Fairness Got to Do With It?
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…
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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….
WSB Set Sights on Big-Market Rivals
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…
Learning the NBC Pilot Biz
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…
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Family Television Awards Honor ‘American Dreams,’ ‘8 Simple Rules’ NBC’s “American Dreams” and ABC’s “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter” won best drama and comedy, respectively, at the Fifth Annual Family Television Awards, held Thursday night in Beverly…
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NBC Orders ‘Come to Papa’ NBC has ordered six episodes of the sitcom “Come to Papa” for midseason. “Papa” stars comedian Tom Papa and is based on his stand-up routine. Mr. Papa plays an aspiring writer in New Jersey who…
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Moran Joins 20th Century Fox Patrick Moran joined 20th Century Fox Television as VP of drama development. He comes to 20th from UPN, where he developed series such as “Platinum” and “Jake 2.0” as VP of drama development. At 20th,…
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Heaton Sick Calls Delay ‘Raymond’ Taping The start of production for CBS’s “Everybody Loves Raymond” was delayed at least another day after Patricia Heaton called in sick today for the second day in a row, a CBS spokesman confirmed. A…
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AOL Time Warner Considers Name ChangeAOL Time Warner, the media titan that has been rocked by accounting scandals and declining subscriptions at its America Online unit, is considering dropping the “AOL” from its name, and could make a decision on…