Is there really any such thing as family programming anymore?In May of last year, ABC announced plans to broadcast “programming that an entire family of kids, teens and parents can watch together.” And earlier this year Federal Communications Commissioner Kevin…
What it is: NewsRider from AccuWeather, a PC-based graphics product for breaking news at local TV stations.What it does: The system is similar to the company’s Galileo system for weather, introduced at last year’s National Association of Broadcasters Convention. The…
The deal has been signed that will bring the animated series tentatively titled Howard Stern: The Teen Years [a k a Howard Stern’s High School Years] to Spike TV, Viacom’s newly rebranded network for men, TelevisionWeek has learned. A production…
David Levy, head of Turner Entertainment Sales and Marketing, and Turner SportsBob Flood, executive VP, director of national television, Optimedia InternationalJoe Abruzzese, ad sales president, Discovery NetworksGina Garrubbo, executive VP of ad sales, Oxygen
The economics of ABC’s new fall program schedule, upfront advertising sales and contribution to Walt Disney’s vital Media Networks unit is where Wall Street’s attention is riveted, since quarterly earnings results offer little surprise or opportunity.As ABC has dramatically demonstrated,…
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…