The atmosphere of the November sweeps continued to hang thickly for syndicators, invigorating some and chilling others. According to Nielsen Media Research, the top newsmagazines and game shows benefited from early nights, while several new strips reached new highs for…
Monday, Dec. 2 Study recommends government should require digital TV tuners A General Accounting Office study released today recommends that the federal government require all new TV sets to include cable-ready digital TV tuners to help spur the rollout of…
Dec. 3, CTAM BroadbandPlus Luncheon: Bringing the Market to HDTV, sponsored by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, in Anaheim, Calif. Information: Seth Morrison, 703-549-4200, or www.ctam.com.Dec. 3-6, BroadbandPlus: The New Western Show (formerly the Western Cable Show), sponsored…
Gemstar-TV Guide International announced that its new on-demand guide for the Motorola DCT2000 digital set-top platform has received Acadia certification and is available for deployment with SeaChange’s video-on-demand system. New features include a barker window, an improved menu system with…
Product placement usually has a price, but until now its value was anybody’s guess.iTVX, which bills itself as the “interactive product placement network,” is a new company that intends to put dollar signs on placements in much the same way…
In a call to arms, a top Sinclair Broadcast Group representative last week urged TV stations to band together to force cable operators to pay for the right to retransmit broadcast digital television signals.“All we need to do is stop…
Melva Goffney has been named senior VP, program research, NBC West Coast. She will oversee the company’s Burbank, Calif., program research department. She will be responsible for entertainment programming in all dayparts, including prime time, late-night, daytime and Saturday morning….
see publication for the following charts:Demographic ratings: broadcast prime time, syndicationNight by night nielsen prime time ratings for the week of Nov. 18-24Ratings for the week of Nov. 18-24
The New York Stock Exchange is proposing rules that would penalize a Wall Street analyst if he or she talks to a reporter and the reporter does not disclose in the resulting article whether a stock the analyst mentions is…
NBC, without meaningful competition from either CBS or Fox, handily won the November ratings race for the 11th consecutive period. “The victory is huge,” said Jeff Zucker, president of NBC Entertainment. “We won by 0.1 rating point last year; this…