Quick Takes
“Only if Tony Soprano whacked some Emmy voters. Or people from `Real Sex’ roamed around nude. The Emmys have always been a bore, and HBO wouldn’t fix that. Plus, it would only make the net heads whine, and who needs…
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Who Is News
BroadcastingRichard Dyer to president and general manager, WLWT-TV, Cincinnati, from president and general manager, KETV, Omaha, Neb.Teri Vila-Caballero to VP, national sales, Univision Communications, from account executive, Miami, Univision. Jeff Gurley to co-local sales manager, KDFW-TV and KDFI-TV, Dallas, from…
Roberts’ rules of order
The first time you see Brian Roberts you think of the young, lanky Jimmy Stewart with the boy-next-door demeanor. As chief executive officer of Comcast Corp., the nation’s largest cable operator with a mind-boggling 21 million subscribers, he’s the successful…
Ad pricing soars for 1st quarter
If you’re in television ad sales these days, life is good.Consider this scatter snapshot: Insiders say first-quarter cost-per-thousand pricing at the broadcast networks is up by as much as 30 percent, and perhaps even more, over upfront prices, while at…
At Press Time
Los Angeles-Twentieth Television has renewed its two top first-run strips, court shows “Divorce Court” and “Texas Justice.” The two series have now cleared 55 percent and 45 percent of the country, respectively for the 2003-2004 season. The strips have been…
Swept off our feet by ‘Bachelor’
Talk about a weak sweeps! In terms of quality and magnitude of sweeps events-if not in terms of numbers-November has been a real bust. Maybe the networks are, in phases, taking the advice of a recent EM editorial and doing…
Syndication Ratings: Veteran talk shows post across-the-board gains
Entering the thick of the November book, a number of syndicated series continued to reach new highs for the season, especially within the weekend and talk ranks, according to Nielsen Media Research data for the week ending Nov. 10.Every veteran…
Breaking News Archives
Friday, Nov. 22 Cablevision raises rates Cablevision Systems, the huge New York-area multiple system operator with approximately 3 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, has unwrapped 2003 price increases that will average 5.26 percent for its customers…
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Thursday, Nov. 21 FCC’s Copps prepared to hold ownership hearings FCC Commissioner Michael Copps today 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…
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Wednesday, Nov. 20 NBC’s Lack questions ABC News/CNN merger Count Andy Lack, NBC president and chief operating officer, among those who are skeptical about a proposal to merge ABC News with cable’s CNN. “It looks like two guys are jumping…