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Quick Takes
“I will attend. Even with attendance down it is still the one chance a year to see what’s new in the syndication marketplace. You always hope to meet the one company that does not travel into markets that has the…
Bruce Rosenblum
Bruce Rosenblum ended the year the way he began it, creating open-ended deals with competitors as Warner Bros. Television-a network production unit under Mr. Roth’s guidance-expands its reach into the broadcast audience.
Ruthanne Secunda
Ruthanne Secunda’s clients would follow her anywhere-even to East L.A.
NATPE News: Katz bets on ‘Ali & Jack’ and ‘Brady’
“Dr. Phil” may have shaken up daytime, but are there more such successes on the way?
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Pamela Thomas-Graham is used to being in place first.
NBC’s pricey renewals make sense
You can’t blame NBC for wanting to hang on to “The West Wing” and “Friends” for at least one more season. After all, those series have held together the network’s juggernaut prime-time schedule as it has faced intensified competition.
NATPE NOTES
* DIC Entertainment has cleared 85 percent of the country for its upcoming Federal Communications Commission-friendly animation block. The block will include DIC properties such as “Inspector Gadget Adventures in History,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd…
Sean Perry
Sean Perry, head of alternative programming at Endeavor Agency, added to his portfolio this year by beefing up the reality presence in prime time, cable and syndication. In terms of reality series success in prime time, 2002 proved to be…
The Insider
A flippant comment by a Washington-savvy source that the Aspen Institute, the think tank to which outgoing CNN News Group Chairman Walter Isaacson is headed come spring, is “not a major player” in Washington sent The Insider in search of…