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Summer Cable Debuts

A&EMI-5, Sexy spy series about British counterterrorism unit, June 22ABC FamilyDance Fever, Modern remake, July 13; Perfect Match, Reality dating show, July 27; Tying the Knot: The Wedding of Melissa Joan Hart, six-week reality miniseries, July; Brendan Leonard Show, 19-year-old…

The Arguments

In a statement, GOP Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said the new media ownership regulations struck a “careful balance that does not unduly limit transactions that promote the public interest while ensuring that no company can monopolize the medium.”…

FCC: The Fix Was In

The edict last week that loosened regulations on TV station ownership wasn’t really made in a Federal Communications Commission meeting room in Washington. That was just a show to put the official stamp on a decision made in a back…

The Ratings Wizard

Monday, May 26, to Sunday, June 1TV Season Week No. 36/Summer Week No. 1The first week of summer brought weekly victories for NBC in adults 18 to 49 (3.1/10) and CBS in total viewers (9.2 million). Top Shows This Week…

The Insider

After the 59th Annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in Washington Wednesday at the Hilton, CNN and Fox News Channel hosted dueling parties. No surprise there. The twist was that CNN’s party was, by numerous third-party accounts, downright fun, not…

Rolling for dollars

That human bowling ball is 10-year-old Hallie Kate Eisenberg, who helped raise about $600,000 for the Children’s Museum of Manhattan at its 2003 Family Benefit last week. Also on hand to get things rolling were Cyma Zarghami, executive VP and…

Timberman Moves to 25C

Sarah Timberman is leaving Universal Network Television to put out her own production shingle at Warner Bros. Television.Ms. Timberman, who has been president of programming for Universal Network Television since June 2001, will call her new venture 25C Productions. The…

What Was Passed

Assuming their survival, the new media ownership regulations, adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in a partisan 3-to-2 vote last Monday, would for the first time clear the way for a single company to own up to three TV stations,…

Saving Free TV?

One week after the Federal Communications Commision rewrote the rules on station ownership, the question of the long-term viability of free over-the-air TV is no more easily answered than before the ruling, when FCC Chairman Michael Powell decreed that lifting…

Cartoon Sets ‘Big O’ Anime for Late Block

“The Big O,” a stylized, futuristic Japanese anime series, is joining Cartoon Network’s red-hot “Adult Swim” late-night block this August.The project is arguably Adult Swim’s boldest stroke yet. “The Big O” is the first anime series for which Cartoon Network…