While some broadcast companies are slashing spending and others are shutting down entire news departments, Belo is teaming with Time Warner Cable to launch 24-hour cable news channels in Charlotte, N.C., Houston and San Antonio. Why now, when advertising is…
TVN Entertainment announced that it will aggregate for its cable partner Comcast the majority of the 750 hours of video-on-demand content the operator plans to introduce to its Philadelphia market this fall. It will mark Comcast’s first major rollout of…
Geof Rochester is pictured at far right in the “Soul Food” photo (“Out & About,” EM, July 15).
The Insider must be forgiven for all style, logic and informational lapses today, because she is feeling just a tad dehydrated, headachey and otherwise out of it due to a few too many rounds of her personal MSNBC drinking game….
Posted Monday, July 22 PBS leads News Emmy nominations Programming from assorted sources put PBS at the top of the list of nominations for the 23rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, announced this morning by the National Academy of…
Bill Evans, general manager at KPSP-TV, Palm Springs, Calif., agreed to keep a short diary for Electronic Media detailing the process of turning a low-power station that broadcasts old movies into a CBS affiliate. KPSP launches as a CBS affiliate…
Warning: Nine TVs were destroyed in the making of these promos.Upcoming spots for Twentieth Television’s new series “The Rob Nelson Show,” more than anything had to be eye-catching, with heated competition expected from Dr. Phil and John Walsh this fall….
BreakfastBreakfast can be as high profile as any meal of the day. The entertainment industry is hardly a 9-to-5 business, and tete-a-tetes start as early as 7 a.m. Some senior executives and agents even have double seatings, so they can…
After only five months on the job as president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Peter Price has gained a lot of ground on the major goals he set, not for himself, but for the New York-based…
Workforce magazine, the leading integrated information source for human resource professionals, has been acquired by Crain Communications, publisher of Electronic Media.One of the oldest and largest continuously published periodicals in the country, Workforce, which covers news, trends and analysis in…