Syndicators are taking different courses of action as local stations continue to pre-empt programming with war news coverage. With national barter spots on the line, the studios are weighing station make-goods on a case-by-case basis, depending on the programming.Universal Domestic…
In the debate over the propriety of advertising on reality TV shows, Ray Dundas, the new senior VP, group director of national broadcast at Initiative Media North America, takes a pragmatic approach. “Reality programming is a fact in our industry,”…
NBC garnered 36 Sports Emmy bids to lead the list of nominations announced last Thursday by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. ESPN earned 22 nominations, followed by Fox and HBO (14 each), ABC and ESPN2 (12 each),…
Comedienne and actress Mo’Nique is being tapped by Big Ticket Television and Paramount as a potential talk show hostess for fall 2004.Mo’Nique Imes-Jackson currently stars as Nikki Parker on UPN’s The Parkers. The talk show she would host is being…
When President Bush announced that the United States had officially launched its invasion of Iraq late last Wednesday evening, Arabic-speaking residents of the Middle East were among the first in the world to know because the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite network…
The real reality show Peter Arnett, correspondent for National Geographic Explorer and NBC, and Richard Engel, a freelancer on assignment for ABC, were the only American reporters left in Baghdad late last week. They have a front-row seat on the…
In advance of the upfront market, the four major broadcast networks are for the first time making separate reality-programming presentations to ad agencies, which are wary of some of the steamier shows.Estimates are that 30 percent to 40 percent of…
In just over a year, Fox has turned its large-market TV station duopolies into a gold mine and a platform for in-house production that will help spur the Fox TV Station Group to a record $1 billion in profits this…
1. Gathered for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony March 10 in New York are inductees Elvis Costello, left, and Sting, second from right, along with VH1’s Brian Graden and Christina Norman.2. Dominick Dunne, second from right,…
Sal Maniaci has been promoted to VP, development and production, for TV Land and Nick at Nite. Mr. Maniaci will oversee the development and creation of TV Land and Nick at Nite’s original programming efforts. Mr. Maniaci will be responsible…