“Both, in a strange way. Appropriate for the amazing reports from embedded and nonembedded journalists who offered a picture of the war often more detailed than the Pentagon’s briefings, and excessive in the amounts of jingoism, self-promotion and ideological nonsense…
The back-to-back quarterly earnings calls of AOL Time Warner and Viacom-in addition to delivering better-than-expected results-offered an interesting and unexpected contrast in how the media giants are growing, leveraging their resources and meeting challenges. In cost cutting, growing advertising and…
Every year about this time the trade press is full of articles from frustrated media buyers and advertisers complaining about the increased clutter reported in the AAAA/ANA Television Commercial Monitoring Report. This remarkably complete and disciplined report has been produced…
We wish Rick Feldman the best of luck as he succeeds Bruce Johansen as head of the National Association of Television Program Executives. We think he is a good choice. Mr. Feldman brings wide-ranging experience and a solid record to…
Leeza Gibbons, the host and producer of Telepictures’ newsmagazine strip Extra who appeared primarily during sweeps this season, will not anchor the May sweep. In fact, Ms. Gibbons may not be back on the show in a regular role unless…
Copps Slams TV Nets for Noncoverage FCC Commissioner Michael Copps today slammed the major TV networks for allegedly refusing to cover Federal Communications Commission proceedings that are expected to serve the networks’ financial interest by relaxing the agency’s media ownership…
As the war in Iraq and its aftermath wind toward conclusion, TelevisionWeek polled TV news executives and other industry veterans in a quest for answers to lingering questions raised by the first war to be televised in real time. What…
The digital video recorder will ultimately be the most successful new TV technology, according to an exclusive TelevisionWeek survey of 100 TV executives. In fact, the executives chose the DVR by a 2-to-1 margin over the second-place finisher, high-definition TV….
What Disney magic was this? After a presentation for clients and sellers recently in Chicago staged by ad-agency Starcom, the big player in the kid’s TV ad market, participants from Nickelodeon, Cartoon Net, Fox Box, Discovery Kids, The Kids’ WB,…
“Don’t you poop on my jacket,” Martha Stewart said to Harry the scarlet macaw as he clambered onto her right shoulder during a press conference to announce a first for her Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia brand-the creation of a property…