David Barrett, who heads the company that has the most ABC affiliates in the country, has a message for the network: Slash your prime-time schedule from 22 hours a week to 15 so his stations can make some decent money.“I…
Title: Executive VP, national sales and event marketing, ESPN/ ABC Sports Customer Marketing and Sales Recent interesting deal: “We did a deal with PepsiCo that tapped into many of the ESPN and ABC Sports assets. It included entitlement of the…
Third-quarter network TV ad spending was up 8 percent over the same quarter a year ago, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Monitor-Plus. Overall advertising spending for all media was up 3.8 percent for the same period, with eight of…
Call it the $44.1 million question.Which carriage agreement governs Starz Encore Group and Comcast Corp, the newly created giant of cable television-the one between SEG and AT&T Broadband, the larger of the two pre-merger entities, or the one between SEG…
At last spring’s National Cable Show, an audience member asked a panelist to name one type of programming that cable operators would really like to see offered. Without hesitation, the panelist shot back that what he needed most was a…
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps last week said he plans to hold a series of field hearings on proposals to ease agency media ownership restrictions, whether Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell comes along for the ride or not.“This is potentially…
Did she really say it, and what did Donna Speciale really mean by that pungently contrarian remark about cross-platform advertising?Ms. Speciale, executive VP and director of national and local broadcast, MediaCom, took the opportunity of the International Radio & Television…
Confronted by a wave of forecasts suggesting a major upset is in the making, TV and advertising executives admit a heightened concern about how personal video recorders and other consumer-empowering technology threatens their economic status quo.Within just a few years,…
see publication for the following charts:Demographic ratings: broadcast prime time, syndicationNight by night nielsen prime time ratings for the week of Nov. 11-17Ratings for the week of Nov. 11-17
Chicago’s WBBM-TV, a CBS owned-and-operated station, has created a local programming department as part of a station overhaul that is designed to help it out of the ratings cellar.The department is responsible for developing and covering local events, like parades,…