Now that Vivendi Universal SA Chairman and CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou has admitted he plans to sell the French conglomerate’s film, television and theme park assets by the end of the year, conventional wisdom has all eyes focused on Barry Diller,…
In “Cable Reach in Households” (TelevisionWeek, April 21), Lifetime, with 85,691,000 households covered for a ranking of eighth, and Sci-Fi Channel, with 79,887,000 households covered for a ranking of 26th, were omitted from the list.
Cable expects to share in a bountiful and perhaps record-breaking 2003 upfront. But a rising tide of upfront dollars will not lift all cable networks equally, and so far advertisers are “hiding the budgets very well,” as one senior seller…
In what could turn out to be a major pain for some media companies, sources last week said a Federal Communications Commission majority appears to have decided to continue limiting the ability of broadcasters and newspapers to merge in the…
1. Starz Encore Group’s Gregory DePrez, left, Advance/Newhouse Communications’ Nomi Bergman and CTAM’s Seth Morrison at the Chairman’s Reception sponsored by Starz On Demand April 9 at the CTAM Digital Conference in New Orleans.2. At the April 26 Hollywood premiere…
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia swung to a first-quarter loss of $7.5 million, as the dark cloud over Chairman and CEO Martha Stewart’s sale of ImClone Systems shares combined with lower revenue from her syndicated TV series to weigh on the…
FX has pulled the plug on one of its most ambitious projects, political reality show American Candidate. But the show’s creator, R.J. Cutler, insisted Friday that the show will go on anyway.Mr. Cutler, a dogged documentarian whose Emmy Award-winning series…
When Touched By an Angel ended last week after nine seasons it made Della Reese sad but not surprised. Ms. Reese, 71, an ordained minister in the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church (www.upchurch.org), said that the only time God…
Businessman Blake Mycoskie is starting a new all-reality TV channel. However, the former contestant on CBS’s Amazing Race is going to need some amazing grace. Launching a reality channel now is like starting a Disco Channel in 1980. Ratings for…
E! Entertainment Television will launch its biggest slate of originals to date, scaling back such signature original series as E! True Hollywood Story, Rank and Revealed, as it prepares to expand its repertoire for a massive summer of new series….