BroadcastingAndrew Finlayson to news director, WSMV-TV, Nashville, Tenn., from news director, KTVU-TV, San Francisco.Stephanie Aaronson to senior director, media relations and program promotion, PBS, Alexandria, Va., from director, corporate communications, Hallmark Channel.Jeff Maloney to VP, sales, WTVT-TV, Tampa, Fla., from…
The Television Critics Association announced its 2003 last week. The awards, which honor work telecast during the 2002-03 season, are voted on by the association’s 200 member critics and journalists. The winners will be announced July 19 in a ceremony…
The case isn’t closed on the futuristic legal drama “Century City.” Although the pilot failed to make the fall schedule, CBS is now thisclose to picking up the Universal Network Television production for midseason, sources said. Set in a law…
“Cable programs can push the envelope of edginess, with shows that are risky, provocative and daring. Production dollars in broadcast allow for programs that feel `bigger,’ are more promotable and appeal to a broader demo.”Ray Murray, president, Banyan Productions“Although many…
TiVo’s new quarterly reporting service, which tracks the second-by-second prime-time viewing patterns of its digital-video-recorder subscribers, is just the first step down a data-collection road that will enlist cable’s biggest multiple system operators in the larger effort to measure, and…
Only days after she “retired” from NBC after 27 years, it was reported that Jane Pauley is in advanced discussions about doing a daily one-hour syndicated talk show. While some think eventually every American will have a talk show, nowhere…
If you program a new show in summer, viewers will come-at least once. That’s what early ratings results show after the first week and a half of summer, in which four broadcast networks launched 10 new shows-up from two shows…
Will someone please tell me what the blank all the bleeping cheerfulness is about? We’re living in rotten times, let’s face it. The country, the continent, the hemisphere, the world, the solar system, the universe, the whatever’s bigger than the…
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…
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.”…