As stations face declining revenues, two of the country’s top station trade organizations, Promax & BDA and Radio-Television News Directors Association, are banding together for a postwar workshop on news promotion.RTNDA is partnering with Promax on its second annual Ratings…
Reversing a Trend Toward TV Networks’ Owning What They Air, New Schedules Show More Openness to Using Outside SuppliersThe broadcast networks and major studios are singing a different tune about vertical integration this year. Hardball negotiating tactics and bad blood…
We are a forgiving people. If we weren’t, Joan Rivers would not have a career right now. Neither would Robert Downey Jr. And Bill Clinton would likely have been exiled to, say, Patagonia or Tegucigalpa (Tegucigalpa, you must first get…
Stephanie Stricklen wasn’t sure what she was getting herself into 18 months ago when she accepted the job of medical reporter at KGW-TV, the NBC affiliate in Portland, Ore. A general assignment reporter, Ms. Stricklen said she was “pretty tentative”…
Liberty Media Corp. Chairman John Malone used his appearance during an annual conference for investors last week to wade into the escalating debate over a la carte pricing of cable programming. Mr. Malone saved his most pointed remarks for sports…
Send the youngsters from the room. This item is for mature audiences only. NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker appeared au naturel in a video that debuted at the NBC upfront. Then he turned unexpectedly press-shy when The Insider asked whether…
John Malone is contemplating ways to morph his Liberty Media Corp. into a conglomerate on par with News Corp. or Viacom that would be anchored by its existing operating assets and targeted acquisitions such as QVC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment.The…
Michele Greppi Text: Several networks held affiliate meetings last week in conjunction with the upfront presentations in New York, but there was little of the anticipated fireworks. The only significant talk by any networks about the 2010 and 2012 Olympic…
Upfront week invariably produces questions that go well beyond “How many episodes of this puppy have you picked up?” TelevisionWeek has the answers … in some cases.Crime-driven dramas will be big next fall. Sitcoms are going to be everywhere. What…
Fox Television’s hit TV show American Idol is not only bringing notoriety to vocally savvy young adults, such as Alabama native Ruben Studdard, and giving a ratings boost to its affiliates, but it is also opening doors for nontraditional advertisers…