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…
Cox Communications is currently testing a tiered broadband pricing model in its Connecticut market and hopes the results will shed light on when and how to use new rates to lure a new set of customers into broadband.The cable operator…
Title: President, advertising sales, Universal TelevisionRecent interesting deal: “The deal I made with USA Networks, now Universal Television. Within a three-month period, I left NBC, the No. 1 network, where I sold the Olympics, their No. 1 event, to simultaneously…
Allen Sabinson’s exit from the top programming post at A&E Networks last week was abrupt but hardly unexpected, at least not by those Nielsen aficionados who have watched the once thriving arts network’s ratings fall during his tenure.Mr. Sabinson, a…
What it is: appareNet, network intelligence software from jaalaM, based in Vancouver, B.C. jaalaM specializes in network performance management and earlier this year began working with production company Rainmaker Entertainment Group to deliver its video footage, i.e. digital dailies. How…
With the two-week orgy of self-aggrandizement known at the TCA summer press tour now over, we can officially look ahead to the fall and the 2002-03 TV season. As a veteran of many Television Critics Association sessions from the TV…
WB kicks ‘Black Sash’ into midseason The WB has formally placed a midseason series order on “The Black Sash,” which stars Russell Wong (“Romeo Must Die”) as an ex-cop who moonlights as a bounty hunter while operating a dojo in…