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CNN Shuffles Programs Paula Zahn is trading the dawn patrol for a 7 p.m.-to-9 p.m. weekday slot on CNN. That programming move is expected to take place Monday. It will set off a series of programming changes that include the…
In Depth
War Brings Cable News Share Shifts
Get beyond the historic cable-news-viewing levels and there are quantifiable shifts in the four all-news networks’ share of the cable-news audience over the first 21 days of the war in Iraq.Although events can cause sharp spikes or drops on any…
Rationing The War Coverage
Notes from the home front; or, They Also Surf:* One of the more memorable exchanges from the early days of the war was a journalism debate between ABC’s Ted Koppel and Charlie Gibson. Charlie declared it would be unconscionable to…
The Insider
Dick Wolf was having none of The Insider’s attempt to figure out whether he’s got another one of those Law & Order cast changes up his sleeve. “This is not about the future,” he said at a party celebrating the…
Newsmakers
BroadcastingMelissa O’Neill-Battaglia to group sales manager, New York, Eagle Television Sales, from account manager.Steve Bernstein to local sales manager, WTXX-TV, Hartford, Conn., from account executive, KASW-TV, Phoenix.Alex Sanchez to general manager, KSMS-TV, KDJT-TV, KLOK-FM, KSES-FM and KMBX-AM, Monterey-Salinas, Calif., from…
Hawn, Richie Shop Talk
Goldie Hawn, whose last regular appearance on TV was on the seminal ’60s comedy Laugh-In, and musical legend Lionel Richie, who recently appeared on American Idol, are among the latest celebrities seeking to leverage fame with lucrative syndicated talk shows….
Numbers Grow for ‘Good Day’
Patience may indeed be a virtue when it comes to Twentieth Television’s fledgling syndicated strip Good Day Live.The series was launched nationally last January and currently holds a 0.9 household rating. But the truer test could come from the initial…
Easter Sunday Special Is Gary Smith’s Passion Play
For most producers, the process of bringing together thousands of clips, photos, celebrity interviews and bits of memorabilia for a TV special is a difficult and consuming job. For Emmy-winning producer Gary Smith, his latest project, 100 Years of Hope…
Previews
Facing the threatAvoiding Armageddon, the eight-hour inaugural production of Ted Turner Documentaries, narrated by Walter Cronkite, premieres this week on public TV (April 14-17). It grew out of a $250 million commitment by Mr. Turner to the Nuclear Threat Initiative,…
Editorial: The High Price of War Coverage
Amid the military casualties of a bitterly fought war, it is easy to forget the dangers that hundreds of journalists also face in trying to cover the conflict. In the past two weeks, however, the deaths of celebrated 39-year-old NBC…