Fox News claims it’s won the upfront among the cable news networks, besting CNN and MSNBC. News Corp.’s Fox pulled in about $150 million in ad dollars, with cost-per-thousand rate increases of 10 percent to 12 percent, said Paul Rittenberg,…
While the broadcast networks continue searching for the next great twist on reality, cable networks are launching a second generation of reality programming that expands the genre to include more lifestyle-based shows. At the Television Critics Association Cable Press Tour…
One of my first jobs was as a movie and TV critic on a now defunct Florida newspaper. The pay wasn’t very good, but the editor assured me I could make up for it in free meals, parties, nightclub visits,…
The two investment teams vying for the U.S. entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal say they are still in the hunt, despite some minor hiccups that surfaced last week while the French conglomerate’s management continued to review the offers.A spokesman for…
CBS’s Chicago owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV will roll out weekend morning news sooner than planned and possibly as early as this month, after its slow response to the fatal porch collapse in Chicago in late June. The station’s coverage started after…
“Leave it to men to launch prematurely,” Albie Hecht joked at the cable portion of the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles. The TNN president said the newly injunction-free net will rebrand “as fast as possible, within a…
oct. 10-14MIPCOM 2003Nineteenth edition of the international television program market, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. Information: Margot Gardett, 33-01-41-90-45-59 or margot.gardett@reedmidem.com; or www.mipcom.com.oct. 14-17NAB Satellite Uplink Operators Training SeminarSponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters, in Washington. Information: Cheryl Coleridge,…
“The Savage Nation” has been canceled by MSNBC after the show’s controversial call-in host, Michael Savage, went on a rant about “sodomites” and said the caller on the air at the time of the live TV tirade “should only get…
CBS may still be attracting the oldest audience in prime time, with half its average viewership over 52 years of age during the 2002-03 season, but the gap has narrowed between CBS and ABC and NBC, its chief rivals. And…
You can still find remnants of the species Talkshow Americanus here and there on what used to be called “the dial.” In the middle of the night, stations and cable networks run talk shows somewhat similar to what a previous…