HBO, NBC lead Creative Arts EmmysMTV’s “The Osbournes” was named outstanding reality program Sept. 14 at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which focuses primarily on the tech categories. Leading the network pack at the awards ceremony was HBO with 16…
Title: Senior VP, advertising sales, Speed ChannelRecent interesting deal: “Two deals show the abilities of a targeted, focused channel. The first was for the Mercury Marauder relaunch, which ran exclusively on Speed. … [It] was a historical piece which re-introduced…
This WeekSept. 23, CABLEready Graduate Award, sponsored by CABLEready and Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, at Lubin House, New York. Information: Sophie Beaurpere, 203-425-2136, Ext. 371.Sept. 23-24, 16th Annual NAMIC Conference: Digital Media & Diversity, sponsored by…
Pioneer plans to launch Monday a third-party developers program for its Passport interactive program guide. The company hopes the program, known as Compass, will foster the growth of interactivity and the use of its guide.Since Passport runs on Scientific-Atlanta, Motorola…
Ask Spencer Kaitz, the founding director of the Walter Kaitz Foundation, what the No. 1 diversity issue is today and he will tell you it is the necessity “to break the old hiring patterns. … You have to break the…
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A year after the chilling and disruptive effects of 9/11, children are flocking back to Saturday morning kids networks-particularly to Kids’ WB, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and such emerging players as Fox Box, ABC Family and Nick on CBS.Almost all the…
Posted Monday, Sept. 23 NBC, HBO dominate Emmys NBC and HBO each brought home 24 Emmy statuettes at the 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night. NBC’s”Friends” got its first win as outstanding comedy series, while NBC’s “The West Wing”…
Welcome to the New Normalcy, the post-Sept. 11 world in which advertisers try to connect with consumers who are busy “re-centering” and making “connections” with their local communities and families and are suspicious of corporations and their advertising claims.As they…
Memo to Matt Drudge: Get new ABC sourceIn a breathless Drudge Report story, posted at 10:14:37 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday, reigning Internet gossip Matt Drudge solicited “three cheers to embattled DISNEY Chair Michael Eisner and his deputy Bob Iger after…