TBS Superstation has commissioned its first reality game show, a prime-time series tentatively titled House Rules that will turn home improvement into a competition.The show is expected to be sponsored by the Lowe’s home-improvement chain and will include extensive product…
Mr. Rodgers is returning to his neighborhood. A year after resigning as president of Discovery Networks U.S., Johnathan Rodgers is back leading a television network.The service, backed by Comcast Corp. and Radio One and tentatively called TV One, will target…
The new NBC affiliates futures committee is already being positioned as a “new cornerstone” in the network-affiliate relationship.The committee is still shy a couple of affiliate representatives and still must choose the one or two potential business partnerships for which…
April 4, the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., marked the birth of what could become the first 24-hour TV news service aimed at African American viewers. MBC, the 4-year-old Major Broadcasting Cable network, took…
Best Damn Sports Emmys setThe 24th annual Sports Emmy Awards will be handed out at the Marriott Marquis in New York Monday, April 21, and portions of the gala will appear Sunday, April 27, on Fox Sports Net’s The Best…
All eyes are on Las Vegas.At least that’s what NBC and screenwriter Gary Scott Thompson are hoping.NBC has been looking to launch a show set in Vegas for the past few seasons. Mr. Thompson, whose feature credits include The Fast…
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For TV journalists who spent weeks embedded on the front lines of the first real-time televised war, coming home means trading one emotional roller coaster for another.The Pentagon’s unprecedented program of assigning journalists to specific units paid off big time…
Everyone looks to a market’s leading station for ideas on succeeding in news. But the one to watch may be the last-place station that is slowly but steadily working its way up.Several perennially poor-performing television stations around the country are…
MTV to Make Bronte Musical Forget Catherine (Merle Oberon) and Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and that gloomy, stormy landscape with the manor house in the English moors. MTV is giving Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights the musical telefilm treatment. This time around,…