An Al-Jazeera cameraman was reported missing 30 kilometers north of Basra, Iraq, late last week, near the site of continuing hostilities between Iraqis and U.S.-led coalition forces, according to Stephanie Thomas, manager of the Qatar-based satellite network’s Washington bureau.This was…
While the latest crop of reality shows have tanked in the ratings, network executives aren’t changing their reality programming plans just yet. They say viewers haven’t cooled to reality-it’s just the process of natural selection where viewers are weeding out…
Top network show: Academy Awards (ABC): 12.5/30 (Adults 18 to 49) Total viewers: 33.0 million (Week ending March 23)Top cable show: War coverage (FNC) Total viewers: 8,595,000 (Week ending March 23) Top syndicated show: Wheel of Fortune (King World) Total…
Advertisers got their first glimpses of the broadcast networks’ fall development plans last week as executives from ABC, Fox, UPN and The WB traveled to New York for pre-upfront meetings with ad agency executives. For the full story, please go…
While putting too many reality series on the air at one time can turn off viewers, expanding hit shows by episodes or hours has risks of its own. Everybody remembers how ABC scheduled four nights of its hit game show…
This is the year that Discovery Networks will do $500 million in the upfront, compared with last year’s $350 million.That was the buoyant prediction Joe Abruzzese, president, advertising sales, Discovery Networks, made just before Discovery’s upfront presentation, one of two…
As the war with Iraq moved toward the end of week two, bombs-away had become business-as-usual. The war was still the biggest news story in the world, and each day brought fresh drama and controversy. But for American TV journalists…
Three years after NBC and other investors sank $50 million into Lou Dobbs’ Space.com and NBC helped land Mr. Dobbs a daily radio platform, The Insider hears the network has sold back its stake in Space Holding Corp., the multimedia…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said last week that the agency has tentatively set June 2 as the date for a final vote on proposals to ax or relax its media ownership rules. Three Republican lawmakers-Sens. Wayne Allard, R-Colo.,…
Last week, hundreds of guests were invited to enter Warner Bros.’ back lot through iron gates, part of a re-creation of the set from The Thorn Birds, the second-highest-rated miniseries in TV history. They would also view artifacts such as…