The NBC News team covering events on the Turkish/Iraqi border from the Turkish side is operating out of two metal shipping containers pulled by an 18-wheeler truck. We’ve dubbed it the Mosher Mobile, for NBC Producer Mike Mosher, who contracted…
Being a producer that isn’t under the same umbrella ownership as major network, cable or satellite channels, in an ever more consolidated marketplace, can be a deadly experience. But through key alliances, MGM TV has turned relationships into riches, explained…
‘Big Brother’ Casting Under Way CBS has started casting for a fourth edition of Big Brother. Big Brother, which puts a group of strangers together in a house and films their every move, has aired the past three summers on…
The chart above shows the phenomenal growth of MGM’s branded international TV channels outside the United States this past year. It is only part of the story of the reinvention of a legendary studio’s television divisions. Our exclusive report focuses…
Check-in at a military base for a flight to an aircraft carrier is much the same as at any civilian airport, except maybe for the rifle case among the carry-on luggage.The ride couldn’t be more different. Wearing life jackets, protective…
The advent of increased local production around the world combined with an international economic downturn has hit a lot of distributors right between the eyes, but MGM sees a very different picture. In the past year MGM has grown the…
Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the most deregulatory of them all?When it comes to the Federal Communications Commission’s media ownership rules, it’s GOP Commissioner Kevin Martin’s reflection that appears, and he’s put his claim to the fame in…
Late last week NBC News unveiled a secret weapon. It put the ah and awe into a war that in its first three days had been shocking mostly for how well the embedding of high-tech journalists was paying off with…
A coalition of 12 GOP congressmen led by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., has urged the Pentagon to put a tighter leash on reporters traveling with military units in Iraq-even considering outright censorship-all in a pique over a report on ABC…
These days, planners have at their fingertips an enormous amount of information on virtually every advertising medium. They can find out how many people are exposed, how often, at what time, for how many minutes, with what demographic composition, with…