Now that the parent companies that tried to arrange a cost-conscious marriage between their news operations have accepted that they cannot make it work, what does the future hold for CNN and ABC News?AOL Time Warner announced Thursday that a…
Twentieth Television, which successfully launched “Texas Justice,” “Good Day Live” and “Ex-treme Dating” on a national platform after trial regional rollouts, has plans to continue its test pattern.Sources said that the syndicator has several series in the works but may…
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Production & Satellite Services Inc., one of the nation’s leading providers of satellite remote trucks for live news and sports coverage, has added an Internet connection for its television clients doing remotes from the field. The 17-year-old Los Angeles-based firm…
Title: General manager of TBS Superstation and TNT SalesRecent interesting deal: “At Turner Entertainment Sales, we worked with Magna Global Entertainment and Johnson & Johnson in a way that reaches far beyond the impact of a single network media deal….
California’s biggest Fox stations have generated some early success in the first few days of February sweeps. For the first time, on Los Angeles’ KTTV, a Fox owned-and-operated station, its homegrown “Good Day L.A.” has beaten all 7 a.m.-to-9 a.m….
This is the year of video-on-demand. Cable TV operators from Comcast to Time Warner have rolled out the on-demand film service to nearly 10 million homes. Viewers can select a movie from more than 100 releases and watch it instantaneously….
Fox reporters expelledLos Angeles-Iraq told Fox News Channel Friday that its four staff members in Baghdad would have to leave the country. According to the Dow Jones Business News, John Stack, the network’s VP for news gathering, said Fox News…
As faithful readers know, The Insider has no life and has a jones for HGTV-conditions that beg the old chicken-or-egg question. But sometimes they pay off with classic couch-potato moments as on the evening of Feb. 8. That night, when…
News coverage of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy brought a significant shift away from weekly syndicated fare as February sweeps began. According to Nielsen Media Research for the week ending Feb. 2, four of the top 12 weekly hours tumbled…