Posted Monday, Aug. 26 Jennings mum on contract status Let the speculation continue. “World News Tonight” anchor Peter Jennings refuses to say whether he has or hasn’t agreed to a new contract, as indicated by a flurry of speculation that…
EchoStar is not DirecTV’s favorite dish.Some telemarketers apparently are trying to trick DirecTV subscribers into switching to EchoStar’s dish in preparation for the EchoStar merger with DirecTV, which would add nearly 11 million customers to its subscriber base. DirecTV says…
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The red carpet is about to be rolled out for Hollywood royalty at the most unlikely of places: the Discovery Networks.That’s largely because Discovery’s new president, Billy Campbell, is the ultimate Hollywood insider.Getting Discovery more in tune with Hollywood is…
In a sign of stability in TV advertising despite the unsettled economy, fewer ad commitments than expected have been dropped from the $8.1 billion in broadcast network prime-time TV deals agreed to last June. That’s good news for networks, especially…
A year from now, Michael Eisner could be gone as chief executive of The Walt Disney Co., Mel Karmazin may be Sumner Redstone’s designated successor at Viacom and Barry Diller could be king of a new media giant.Such high-level executive…
The fall 2002 season marks the first official “season of the duopoly” as CBS-, NBC- and Fox-owned stations dabble with new approaches to fall programming in an effort to capitalize on inherent benefits of shared resources while avoiding audience cannibalization….
In a conspicuously overt operation, “She Spies”-a one-hour action-adventure-comedy series from MGM Television Entertainment-got the jump on the competition with a special network preview on NBC this summer before heading off to syndication in the fall.Having the opportunity to promote,…
The Hollywood trend of big-time movie producers taking a chance on the small screen has now hit syndication.Best known for her work as a producer on big-screen hits such as “The Terminator,” “Aliens” and “The Abyss,” Gale Anne Hurd is…
In “Tapeless television: not as easy as all that” (EM, Aug. 19, Page 9), the photo at right is of KGO-TV News Director Kevin Keeshan.