Posted Wednesday, Sept. 11 PBS wins big at News Emmys PBS documentaries earned 14 gold statues Tuesday night at a ceremony marked by multiple winners in numerous categories of the 23rd Annual News and Documentary Awards presentation by the National…
Posted Tuesday, Sept. 10 Fox Movie Channel, National Geographic top survey Fox Movie Channel and National Geographic Channel scored highest among emerging/digital cable networks in the latest Beta Research Corp. want-to-see survey of potential viewers. Other emerging/digital networks with a…
Michael Eisner, the beleaguered chairman and chief executive of The Walt Disney Co., recently declared, “Maybe I’m crazy, but we don’t have a crisis.” Mr. Eisner is both right and wrong.Disney has warned it will miss another quarter of earnings…
What it is: Galileo weather graphics system from AccuWeather. The hardware and software system to create and display weather has been in development for three years.How it works: Galileo is a PC-based graphics animation system that can produce weather graphics…
Posted Monday, Sept. 9 America Online will miss revenue targets AOL Time Warner said early today advertising at its America Online unit is coming up short and the unit will miss its previously stated targets. But the company as a…
On Tuesday, Sept. 10, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New York City will present Roone Arledge with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award.We cannot think of a more worthy recipient of this prestigious honor.If Mr. Arledge had…
KCBS-TV cameraman dies in copter crashLos Angeles-Larry Greene, a KCBS-TV cameraman for 24 years, was killed Friday when a U.S. Navy helicopter on which he was riding crashed in the North Arabian Gulf. Four sailors were injured. A military official…
No single fingerprint left on television has been greater than that of Roone Arledge during his reigns as president of ABC Sports (1968-1986) and ABC News (1977-1997).He’s given couch potatoes an armchair pass to obscure competitions and highly personalized Olympic…
Cause-related marketing partnerships with nonprofit organizations are driving TV ad revenue upward in the Baltimore market.Fox News Corp.’s UPN affiliate, WUTB-TV, does three community projects each year. Just recently it launched “Collecting for Kids,” a back-to-school campaign with the Maryland…
New York-The first thing you may notice about the fourth-season premiere of “The Sopranos” is what’s gone. The twin towers of the World Trade Center are gone. Just as they have vanished in what we call real life, they have…