For two decades, Electronic Media has presented “12 to Watch”, an annual feature that puts the focus on high-profile television industry professionals who face pivotal challenges in the year ahead. Among the best, brightest and most promising in American media,…
How much further can the reality craze go?
TechTV plans to begin offering a news feed for local television stations at this year’s NATPE convention. The service will be available starting in February. The technology lifestyle network, which counts 40 million homes in the United States, has provided…
Steve Brenner’s year did not go as well as expected. His company, video-on-demand provider iN Demand, was poised to wrap up deals with all the major studios.
Los Angeles-NBC has ordered a hybrid sitcom/reality pilot starring Kathy Griffin, focusing on her life as a celebrity. The series will be based on the stand-up routine Ms. Griffin performs weekly at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles and her…
In an earlier life I was the media planner for a regional line of bathroom tissues. In a fit of hardheaded cost-consciousness, the company replaced its marketing-savvy division head with a manager from the comptroller’s office. At our first meeting,…
Neither big chills nor fireworks were expected at the network-affiliate gatherings scheduled in conjunction with the National Association of Television Program Executives convention in New Orleans.
CNN News Group Chairman Walter Isaacson will be leaving the all-news network in May to become president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a 52-year-old think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C..
Dennis Swanson has been Mr. Presto Change-o since mid-July, when the industry was shocked to learn he was “retiring” as general manager of immensely profitable WNBC-TV in New York. The industry was stunned to learn only three days later that…
Electronic Media will present daily television coverage of the National Association of Television Program Executives convention for the 20th year.