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…
Discovery Times Joins Freedom Forum for 1st Amendment Venture In its first such partnership since launching, Discovery Times Channel has joined with The Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation, in a joint venture to inform the public about issues relating to…
VUE Experiences Q2 Revenue Drop Vivendi Universal on Thursday reported a 60 percent drop in second-quarter revenue, as a slowdown in the Franco-American’s entertainment business offset gains seen at the telecommunications unit. The Paris-based company said its consolidated revenue fell…
Rainbow Media Consolidates Channels Cablevision Systems’ Rainbow Media Holdings on Wednesday said it has consolidated its cable channels under a single umbrella and named IFC Cos. President Kathleen Dore as president of the newly created Entertainment Services unit. In her…
MGM Withdraws Bid for VUE Assets Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on Tuesday withdrew its $11.5 billion all-cash bid for the U.S. entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal, saying the French company’s price demands were greater than MGM’s valuation of the assets. At the same…