Discovery Channel has selected Joseph LaPolla to be its new director of programming. In his new role, LaPolla will oversee all of Discovery Channel’s scheduling and acquisition functions. He also will work closely with the senior management team in developing…
“The Art and Science of Marketing: Strategy, Creative, Results”Cable’s premier educational marketing and management conference concentrates on strategic consumer marketing and breakthrough creative management. The summit brings together the brightest minds in the industry to learn from outside business leaders…
The rising tide of dissatisfaction with the timing and frantic pace of the current annual upfront process, which buyers believe unduly favors sellers, has led senior executives from at least five of the Big 7 media agencies into discussions on…
July6-25 TCA Summer Press Tour 2003Sponsored by the Television Critics Association, in Hollywood. ABC presentations, July 14-15. Fox, July 17-18. CBS, July 20-21. UPN, July 22. NBC, July 24-25. Information: www.tvcritics.org.13-18 Management Development Seminar for Television ExecutivesSponsored by the National…
Emmy Noms AheadMichael Chiklis (FX’s “The Shield”) and Jane Kaczmarek (Fox’s “Malcolm in the Middle”) will announce the 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations July 17, along with Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chairman Bryce Zabel. The announcements will…
Lynn Calpeter has been named executive VP and chief financial officer of NBC, an assignment that will immediately bring her back to the network’s headquarters in New York, where she spent two years as CFO of the NBC Television Stations…
Bob Wright, chairman and CEO of NBC and vice chairman of GE and a member of its corporate executive office, first joined the network in 1986 and has overseen significant changes and enormous growth since then. He recently sat for…
For the first six full weeks of summer, unscripted original programming has been driving broadcast television’s ratings-and that’s OK with advertisers and media buyers.“I don’t think there is any problem with that,” said Steve Sternberg, senior VP and director of…
Hallmark Channel has ordered production on an original movie, “The Dead Hollywood Moms Society,” based on the novel of the same name by Lindsay Maracotta.Production on the project-about a struggling Hollywood mom, who after discovering a dead body in her…
CABLEMindy Brown to director, ad sales, West Coast accounts, G4, from senior managing director, client services, Adlink. Also, Eric Nathanson to director, West Coast ad sales, from senior manager.Nora O’Brian to director, original scripted programming, Sci Fi Channel, from VP,…