Posted Thursday, Sept. 5 NBC plans Telemundo station in Boston NBC plans to use WPXB-TV, the Merrimack, N.H., station for which it has agreed to pay Paxson Communications $26 million in cash, to give the Boston market its first full-power…
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 4 Paxson sells WPXB Paxson Communications plans to sell WPXB-TV, its station in Merrimack, N.H., to NBC for $26 million cash, more than eight times what Paxson paid for the station. NBC, which has a stake in…
Posted Tuesday, Sept. 3 New syndie series fare well Three syndicated series that debuted Monday each found something to crow about despite intense Labor Day competition ranging from program marathons to the U.S. Open to a telethon. According to Nielsen…
For years, Milton Berle was known as Mr. Television. He got that moniker by becoming TV’s first superstar back in 1948. Eight years later, Mr. Berle’s reign as a TV superstar was over. But the true Mr. Television, in our…
The CBS Cable initiative, which lasted just a little more than a year, was the last great risk-taking venture by a major U.S. broadcaster before the bean counters and bottom liners took over altogether, and the once proud claims of…
As the licensee of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, N.Y., the longest-running CBS affiliate not owned by Viacom, LIN TV is happy to congratulate the network on its 75th anniversary. From its early days and under its current management, CBS has been…
From 1963 until 1970, Michael Dann was CBS’s head of programming, based in New York City. That was a period that included several seasons of almost unbelievable ratings dominance for the network.In 1963-64, for example, CBS had 14 of the…
In a stinging response to the continuing problem of clutter on TV, MindShare, the WWP Group media agency that closely monitors nonprogramming time on TV, has just issued a report saying that it is “alarmed by the continuing deterioration of…
Sept. 18, 1927-The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System begins broadcasting to 16 stations. The radio program consists of members of the New York City Metropolitan Opera performing “The King’s Henchmen.”Sept. 26, 1928-William S. Paley is elected president of the Columbia Broadcasting…
Audiences, stations and advertisers will have to decide this fall where the true appeal of a show lies-with its producers, talent and time slots or with its name and venue. And the Superior Court in Los Angeles may have to…