A study that claims top station groups fail to produce “quality” news-released just before the government’s media ownership meetings-is drawing criticism from members of the station community.The study, executed by the Project for Excellence in Journalism in collaboration with Princeton…
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….
British Academy Film Awards to air this month Add Feb. 23 to your award show calendar. That’s when BBC America will telecast, live and commercial-free, the British Academy Film Awards, the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the American Academy Awards. Like…
CNN-ABC News merger definitely off AOL Time Warner announced Thursday that a merger between CNN and ABC News presented too many complications and that the high-level on-again, off-again talks that started last year are dead. “After careful review, it was…
Dog show tops cable viewing Cable viewers went to the dogs Tuesday — the purebred dogs, that is, making USA Network’s telecast of the 2003 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show from New York’s Madison Square Garden the most-watched program on…