Karen Tobin has been named VP, national promotion, Fox Broadcasting Co. She reports to Jason Haikara, senior VP, marketing. She will be responsible for strategic third-party alliances to maximize off-air exposure for Fox series and specials such as the Billboard…
Fox, NBC, Telemundo and CBS/Viacom hired a Washington economics firm to critique a recent report that claimed to show that larger ownership tends to mean stations produce lower-quality local news. The critique, filed Thursday with the Federal Communications Commission, brands…
Univision Ownership: Univision CommunicationsYear Launched: 1961Reach: 97 percent of Hispanic householdsAffiliates: 72 broadcast affiliates, 1,442 cable affiliatesTop-Rated Shows: “Privilegio de Amar,” “Entre el Amor Y el Odio”GalavisionOwnership: Univision CommunicationsYear Launched: 1979Reach: 5.7 million U.S. Hispanic cable subscribers, 90 percent of…
In the wake of a weekend summit among U.S., British and Spanish leaders, it appears that any war with Iraq is still some days away. This appears to have contributed to a sense in Baghdad among journalists that there is…
OSCAR BUZZ IN THE AIR The 75th annual Academy Awards ceremony, which is also the 50th anniversary telecast, will be presented Sunday evening on ABC live from Hollywood, hosted by Steve Martin, above. The show, which airs in about 150…
Jeff Shell must want to crawl into one.Shell, a former News Corp. exec, was named CEO of Gemstar-TV Guide International last October. Since taking the reins, Shell’s company has:Paid a $5.7 million fine to the federal government for alleged anti-trust…
Univision is the dominant Spanish-language network and the fifth-largest network overall, ahead of both The WB and UPN. Telemundo is taking aim at No. 1 with locally oriented newscasts, and other challengers are on the horizon, such as La Familia…
By 1958, NBC and the academy had gotten into a routine for Oscar presentations. The event was fully sponsored by the motion picture industry itself, and directed for NBC by Alan Handley from the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. With no…
BroadcastingPatricia Murphy to director, corporate communications and speechwriter, Public Broadcasting Service, from communications director and speechwriter, the office of Sen. Max Cleland.Tom Cury to director of sales, WBFS-TV, Miami, from director of station sales, New York, Viacom.John Sears to VP,…
To: The Embedded and About-to-Be EmbeddedFrom: Someone Who Has Been ThereThose of us who’ve “had our war” and have seen some combat along the way, have been watching this embedding thing with a fair measure of amusement. Not because it…