Walter Isaacson
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..
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Dennis Swanson
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…
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Electronic Media will present daily television coverage of the National Association of Television Program Executives convention for the 20th year.
Supping at the subscriber plate
If they build it, will the audiences and advertisers come? Or will the newest proposed cable networks turn out to be cannibals, biting off viewers and dollars from the older, established networks without expanding the number of viewers in their…
Judith McHale
Political junkie might be a more apt title for Judith McHale, Discovery Communications’ president and chief operating officer.
The New Television: He should know better
During a Q&A session at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell was asked about TiVo, the digital video recorder service.
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Michael Copps
Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps doesn’t look like much of a pugilist.
King World aims for spicy with ‘Ali’
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