LOCAL LISTINGS
Acme sells two stations to Tribune Acme Communications will take a big bite out of its debt with the sale of WB-affiliated KPLR-TV in St. Louis and KWBP-TV in Portland, Ore., to Tribune Co. for $275 million. The deal is…
In Depth
Trizec’s new office
Trizec Properties Inc. shareholders hope that Chicago has better karma than New York and Toronto. Yet it will take more than good vibrations to turn around the real estate investment trust (REIT) after its recent-and largely symbolic-decision to move its…
Newsmakers deserve recognition for gaffes
Now that all of the other print and broadcast news organizations have selected their biggest, most important and momentous news stories of the past year, it’s time to take a different kind of look backward. In honor of all of…
THE INSIDER
The accidental tour-ists The Television Critics Association’s winter tour gets under way today at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in the Hollywood & Highland complex, the location for which the networks convinced the TCA to forsake Pasadena’s more spa-like Ritz-Carlton Huntington….
Turn away funding for arts and suffer a deficit of spirit
“Education, medicine, museums and theaters-that’s the core of civilization of any city.”-Mayor Richard M. Daley The word is going out from the Blagojevich compound: Only those who can help generate new revenue need apply for a piece of what’s left…
Profile: Alec Gerster
Title: CEO, Initiative Media Worldwide Recent interesting deal: “Renewal of our sponsorship of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s research to measure the wide disparity in viewer interaction with commercial communication. While the industry focuses on audience ratings as a basic definition…
BRIEFLY NOTED
Jackson is latest to leave CNN Brooks Jackson, the Washington-based senior correspondent specializing in campaign finance reform and political ads, is leaving CNN. Mr. Jackson joined the network in 1990 after a decade as a reporter for The Wall Street…
Online poll: Many threats to economy
It seems we’re becoming blase about war and terrorism. Even as the likelihood of the United States going into battle with Iraq grows, few people believe that such a conflict-or even another terrorist attack on U.S. soil-will be major impediments…
Pitting best series against each other draws ire
Nothing like a little armchair analysis to make television executives second-guess their every move. Or not. Reviewers who took part in Electronic Media’s semiannual poll took aim at everything from the dearth of original shows on Saturday night to the…
ABC casts vote for one-screen interactivity
ABC’s decision to offer updated statistics with the click of a remote-control button during four college bowl games last week scored points with those who still believe in the potential of-and the fiscal need for-single-screen interactive TV. ABC Sports and…