All grown up
For Cori Wellins, reading scripts for fun is a lot better than nervously reciting lines at a casting call. A former child actor, Ms. Wellins, now 31, prefers slipping out of the limelight and has put her all-consuming love of…
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Krantz opens shop at Warner Bros.Tony Krantz, who decided to exit last month as co-partner and CEO of Imagine Television after five years at the Ron Howard- and Brian Grazer-led studio, has set out a production shingle at Warner Bros….
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Posted Friday, July 12 Kellner warns of PVR fallout In keeping with his staunch campaign against personal video recorders (PVRs), Turner Broadcasting System Chairman and CEO Jamie Kellner likened the potential revenue losses from “skipped” commercials and disk storage of…
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Powell down on electronics makers Beating on his bully pulpit, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell today publicly slapped consumer electronics manufacturers for failing to embrace his voluntary plan to spur the rollout of digital television. In April Mr. Powell…
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ABC, affils hold productive talks A daylong gathering of ABC executives and ABC affiliates in Chicago ended with both sides declaring that the dialogue had been positive. “It was a very beneficial day,” said Bruce Baker, the Cox Television executive…
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KCBS’s Diaz hired by KABC KCBS-TV has hired popular Laura Diaz away from KABC-TV, where she has spent 19 years, the last five as anchor of its 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. Don Corsini, the general manager of the…
Editorial: Rigas betrays a town’s trust
John Rigas, shame on you.Mr. Rigas is the erstwhile chairman and CEO of cable operator Adelphia Communications.Adelphia has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The cause: Mr. Rigas and his family used Adelphia, a publicly traded company, to guarantee billions of…
Getting a read on Martha
News items: Worldcom, Enron, Xerox, Adelphia and, of course, Martha “I’m not a Clone” Stewart. As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said in an editorial last week, “Since the news of her December 2001 sale of 4,000 shares of ImClone stock-a day…
Syndication Ratings: Talk shows appeal to the young and out of school
With teens and college students at home for the summer, the talk show genre was infused with a jolt of youthful eyes and as a result, younger-skewing series hit home runs. Meanwhile, typically older-skewing shows seemed to stumble, according to…
An HBO kind of respect
Earning respect has always been an uphill battle for the basic cable networks. But outstanding showings by FX’s “The Shield” and MTV’s “The Osbournes” in Electronic Media’s Spring/Summer 2002 Critics Poll suggest an end to the perception of cable networks…