LAS VEGAS-The Hollywood creative community’s campaign to preserve part of the TV networks’ schedules for independent production won a ringing endorsement at the National Association of Broadcasters convention here last week, at least from USA Interactive Chairman and CEO Barry…
Although the Kids’ WB has trailed Nickelodeon in all ratings for kids 2 to 11, the AOL Time Warner kid block has in recent years premiered two runaway hits, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! The network is looking to next season’s anime…
Melissa Grego has joined TelevisionWeek as News Editor, reporting to Editor Alex Ben Block. “Melissa is an extremely skilled reporter and editor with a real connection to the television industry,” Mr. Block said. “She is a tremendous addition to our…
Monday, March 31-Sunday, April 6TV Season Week No. 28NBC picked up its second adults 18 to 49 weekly win in a row led by strong Friday and Sunday night performances, while CBS claimed victory in total viewers. Top Shows This…
Technology used to cover the war in Iraq could be applied in daily news gathering on the home front.Journalists in the Middle East have made do without satellite trucks, suggesting reliance on them could be reduced at home, said John…
The call came around 2 in the afternoon from a woman at the Fox News Channel asking if I would consider appearing on The O’Reilly Factor in a few hours. I was initially wary but still interested. Wary because of…
At least 100 players are expected to flock to Las Vegas this week to play Texas Hold Em in the finale of the estimated $4 million World Poker Tour at the Bellagio Hotel. But the biggest winner appears to be…
NBC is starting work on a TV movie about Jessica Lynch, the 19-year-old U.S. soldier taken prisoner in Iraq and rescued in a daring operation. “Like the rest of America, we shared in the collective thrill of witnessing the heroic…
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…
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…