While off-network sitcom ratings have come out of the woods with spiked ratings for the week ending July 21, it was another Woods who sunk weekend fare into a ratings quagmire.According to Nielsen Media Research, eight of the top nine…
It’s the latest front in the war between networks and their affiliates: the battle over the stations’ right to pre-empt network programming. And the key strategic objective for either side is to win over the Federal Communications Commission.To that end,…
KDVR expands Broncos game coverageFox station KDVR-TV announced last week that veteran Denver sportscaster Les Shapiro will team with sports anchor David Treadwell every Sunday night during the NFL season to provide expanded coverage of the Denver Broncos and other…
If a baseball strike in mid-September leads to the cancellation of the World Series, it might not crush Fox in the short-term. But the long-term impact could result in financial problems deeper than the ones the network is already experiencing…
They have influence and money-lots of it-and their very own TVs. Just don’t call them tweens. They hate the name.The annual buying power of “tweens,” as adult marketers call third-grade-through-middle schoolers, has been variously estimated at between $41 billion and…
John Carrozza has been named VP, national advertising sales, Discovery Networks. He was formerly executive VP, sales planning, for the ABC Family Channel/Disney Kids Network. Mr. Carrozza is responsible for all ad sales proposals and inventory portfolio management for Discovery’s…
DeGeneres, Baldwin fit to be squared“Hollywood’s” hunt is over, as King World Productions officially announced that Ellen DeGeneres and Alec Baldwin would serve as two of the game show’s rotating center squares for the season. Distributor King World announced that…
This WeekAug. 7, Newsmaker Luncheon Presents Kids Day, sponsored by the Hollywood Radio and Television Society, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, Calif. Information: 818-789-1182 or genehrts@aol.com.Aug. 7-9, SBCA 2002 National Satellite Convention and Expo, sponsored by the…
Cablevision’s Joan Hendricks presents a $5,000 check to John Renyhart of the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, N.Y., July 9 in support of the museum’s new exhibition on Long Island spectator sports.Filmmaker Rory Kennedy, left, celebrates the “Pandemic: Imaging…
“This is going to be a banner year for us, we hope, with the heated gubernatorial race and the sensitivity that we have about voting in Florida. … We are on guard and excited about the opportunity the additional political…