The boxing gloves were out at the Summit, figuratively speaking, during the spirited syndication panel. The Upfront Summit, sponsored jointly by TelevisionWeek and Advertising Age, its sister publication, was the last chance for buyers and sellers to spar publicly over…
NBC Taps Three New Dramas, Three New Comedies NBC will introduce three new dramas and three new comedies on its fall schedule, NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker said this morning in New York. The network also has extended its ER…
It’s raw. It’s unedited. It’s uncensored.No, it’s not the latest show from the Playboy Channel or Cinemax. It’s a new subscription video-on-demand offering from the Independent Film Channel that dares to bare all, in a different way.IFC plans to introduce…
The rising cost of prime-time TV advertising and the future of the upfront process itself were hot topics at the third annual Upfront Summit, held last week in midtown Manhattan. The spirited debate ranged from those who think the networks…
Eduardo Quezada, a veteran anchor for Univision-owned KMEX-TV, Los Angeles, has joined the market’s rival Spanish-language station, NBC-owned KVEA-TV, a Telemundo affiliate. Quezada, 58, had been with KMEX since 1975. He anchored his final KMEX broadcast on May 2 and…
Clutter is worse than ever in prime time, reaching an all-time high last year on the broadcast Big 4.In fact, in 2002, almost a quarter of every hour of Big 4 prime was given over to the clutter brew of…
At deadline, it appeared that top Federal Communications Commission officials would not receive FCC Chairman Michael Powell’s official recommendations on proposed revisions to the media ownership rules until sometime Monday. Mr. Powell recently said he wanted to share the proposals…
Everybody’s looking for laughs-and taking reality checks-this week in New York as the broadcast networks gather to unveil their fall schedules.With NBC’s Friends and Frasier in their last year and the possibility that CBS’s Everybody Loves Raymond will only last…
If Abraham Lincoln thought a lawyer who handles his own case has a fool for a client, what would he have said about TV correspondents and anchors who bypass their agents and lawyers to make deals they think will pay…
“They need to get rid of the comedies that aren’t working for them. The WB has amazing development. They’ve got really solid contenders. At this point a show like Greetings From Tucson shouldn’t cut it for them anymore.” … “The…