Miami owned-and-operated CBS station WFOR-TV and its sister station UPN O&O WBFS-TV have partnered with The Miami Herald to share resources starting this month. WFOR has installed a bureau inside the Miami Herald’s newsroom that is staffed by a reporter/producer…
New York-Some 10 people at various levels of Millennium Sales & Marketing, the largest of Katz Television Group’s three TV divisions, lost their jobs last week in a restructuring that hit hardest in New York, where about two-thirds of Millennium’s…
In a surprise about-face, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell last week announced that the agency will hold a field hearing on its media ownership regulations sometime in February in Richmond, Va.Late last month, Michael Copps, a Democratic FCC commissioner,…
All the best people seem to be gone or going-in show business generally, and in television in particular. Certainly there are drastically fewer giants looming large on the landscape than there were 10, 20 years ago. We’re perhaps at the…
What it is: APS from JacobsRimell, a London-based software company. APS is a service-fulfillment platform designed to ease the provisioning of new technology services for cable operators.What it does: APS allows operators and customers to provision and activate new services…
Cable is getting real to attract viewers.Several top cable networks struck deals last week to beef up their schedules with a slew of reality entries, including new U.S.-produced episodes of a British import and programs featuring supermodel Naomi Campbell and…
Title: Chairman and CEO, Marketron InternationalBackground: Mr. Jackson founded Marketron International in 1995 in anticipation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the ensuing consolidation in the broadcast business. “Stations would need more control over their commercial inventory and ways to…
The Major League Baseball season will start a little early on Fox Broadcasting next year. The network is taking two Saturday games of the week off its September 2003 national TV schedule and adding two games to the network lineup…
see publication for the following charts:Demographic ratings: broadcast prime time, syndicationNight by night nielsen prime time ratings for the week of Nov. 25-Dec. 1Ratings for the week of Nov. 25-Dec. 1
Anaheim, Calif.The state of the union was topic A at BroadbandPlus, a k a The New Western Show, the tech-heavy 35th edition of the annual cable convention sponsored by the California Cable & Telecommunications Association, which was held last week…