While many station groups revised their earnings forecasts downward to reflect dampened ad spending during the war in Iraq, a few reported solid results that may translate into a renewed willingness to reinvest-slowly and cautiously-in new technology. Those that saw…
Network scheduling used to be realitively simple. This fall, as the major networks finalize program schedules, it’s considerably more complicated due to increased competition from cable, low-rated repeats, reality show stunting, improved research and the near total focus on the…
Despite the vehement opposition of key affiliates, a Federal Communications Commission majority is expected to substantially relax the regulatory cap on how many TV stations a single company may own, sources said last week. As it stands, the rule bars…
There are more than 6.1 million Hispanics in the Los Angeles designated market area, making it the No. 1 Hispanic market in the United States. About 25 percent of those Hispanics are Central American, and this subset is the target…
A Cable Positive benefit, to be held in New York, honoring 2003 Joel A. Berger Memorial Award recipients Robert L. Johnson, CEO of BET, and Debra L. Lee, president and chief operating officer of BET, for their outstanding contributions in…
APRIL 24-May 4 Fourth Annual Television Documentary Festival Sponsored by the Museum of Television & Radio, in New York. Information: 212-621-6600, 212-621-6699 (hotline) or www.mtr.org. 29 CTAM Master Courses on the Road: How Cable Goes to Market Sponsored by the…
Sony Corp. last week posted 2002 fiscal year net profits of 115.15 billion yen ($961.1 million), much lower than Sony’s own forecast of 180 billion yen. Profits were propelled by cost cutting at its electronics division as well as by…
BEHIND THE SCENES Of the Gilmore Girls was the subject of an April 21st seminar at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Expressing their views were Milo Ventimiglia, left, who plays Jess Mariano on the show, and Alexis Bledel,…
Tina Brown’s debut Magazine maven Tina Brown, whose CNBC talk show, now called Topic A: The New M.O. in the Postwar World in Business, Politics and Conversation, was postponed when war broke out in March, finally debuts Wednesday with high-profile…
A cross-promotion between AT&T Broadband/ Comcast and McDonald’s in the Southern California Hispanic market was a “real sweet” offer, so good that it crossed right over into the general market, said Liz Castells-Heard, president and CEO of Castells & Asociados,…