Miller named America Online chairman and CEOAs expected, Jonathan Miller last week was appointed chairman and CEO of AOL Time Warner’s America Online division. Mr. Miller will oversee all of America Online’s businesses and report to Don Logan, chairman of…
NBC’s prime-time viewership has the highest average median household income in virtually every adult demographic and is the only network to have a higher median income than the total U.S. population in all categories.That is the top-line conclusion of a…
Adelphia woes hit another stage While the show will undoubtedly go on at the National Cable Television Center and Museum’s theatre, nobody knows who will pay the remaining $500,000 due to the Center for the curtain to be raised. Five…
Jonathan Miller’s first congratulatory phone call last week was from the vacationing Jamie Kellner, chairman of Turner Broadcasting Systems. “That just tells you going in, if you conduct yourself right, the opportunities inside this company are huge,” Mr. Miller said…
“We’ll be replacing our early-fringe syndication and producing a special 90-minute news block to cover the unprecedented changes our local communities have undergone over the last year. Our reporting will complement the coverage of ABC News.”Scott Libin, news director, KSTP-TV…
Ad spending posts increase over 2001 Advertising spending for the first half of 2002 rose 2.3 percent over the same period last year, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen Monitor-Plus, a service of Nielsen Media Research. Six of the nine…
FCC gives TV manufacturers a DTV deadline The Federal Communications Commission has decided that broadcasters should not have to shoulder the burden of the transition to digital, but that TV set makers should, too. In a decision today, the FCC…
NBC, DreamWorks formalize partnership NBC and DreamWorks Television have formally agreed to enter into a two-year prime-time series development partnership. In a deal announced by NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker and DreamWorks principal Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Television — run by…
‘Monk’ gets split USA/ABC windows ABC has acquired the broadcast rights to USA Network’s hit drama “Monk” and will run four episodes this summer following their original airing on the cable network. The series, which is co-produced by ABC’s sister…
Fox’s plan to start the clock on the second season of “24” with a commercial-free hour has ticked off some of the network’s affiliates, some of whom are suggesting that if Fox doesn’t adequately compensate the stations for the time…