“Shop & Style” is a one-hour live shopping show masquerading as a talk show that begins a one-month test run Aug. 4 on NBC-owned stations in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. A “joint commerce programming initiative” between NBC…
In “Nets Wrangle Over Demo Study” (TelevisionWeek, July 28), the photo that appeared above the name Alan Wurtzel was not Mr. Wurtzel, president of research and media development for NBC. The picture was of Mark Wurtzel, senior VP of syndication…
“This summer’s programming is full of reality shows that I don’t care to watch. But I love watching all of the `Law & Order’ shows. I even enjoy watching the reruns. I hope they run for a long time.”Walter Carasco,…
The eleven up-and-comers profiled in the seventh annual Hot List are blazing trails as deeply drawn into the future of television as the Hot List has ever seen.There’s an agent shaping prime time who turned down a pro basketball contract…
As Buena Vista Television prepares to syndicate repeats of “Alias” and Twentieth Television hits the street with “24,” it’s becoming evident that the off-net-hour business has thrown away the marketing blueprint. “Just when we think we had it figured out,…
While the broadcast networks are gearing up to launch the majority of their fall schedules during premiere week, Fox has been quietly plotting a counterattack.Hampered by Major League Baseball, which will push the start of its fall season to late…
This overheated globe we populate became a little cooler when Bob Hope’s fire went out.In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off,…
There will never be another Bob Hope.That is obviously true in a literal sense, but it is also a reality in a more symbolic sense. It’s the end of an era. Mr. Hope’s passing really represents closure for the first…
Fox Broadcasting, which after months of discussions has been unable to reach agreement with the Fox affiliates board of governors on three issues, has begun negotiating new National Football League game cost-sharing agreements directly with stations.“We have had extraordinarily positive…
Aegis Group, one of the holding company giants of the consolidating world of advertising, is restructuring its worldwide operations and forming a new global buying and planning network to be called Vizeum.In North America, Europe and elsewhere, that new network…