Advance/Newhouse, Time Warner Cable restructure partnership Advance/Newhouse Communications will take an active management role in some of the cable systems in its partnership with Time Warner Cable. Advance/Newhouse will manage systems in Central Florida; Tampa Bay, Fla.; Birmingham, Ala; Indianapolis;…
“The repeal of fin-syn has swung the pendulum too far. Independent television production is now practically nonexistent. The goal is diversity, which has to include a robust sector of programming suppliers not owned by the nets.”Martin Kaplan, director, USC Annenberg…
At any given time, at least one station in each market in the country is likely seeking a good news producer. But finding one is not an easy task. Some news directors are taking a proactive approach by making the…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell is on the right track with his new plan to examine the full package of media ownership restrictions, his goal being to craft a set of regulations that will stand up in court.An especially…
Elizabeth Cheng has been named VP of programming and communications for WCVB-TV, the Hearst-Argyle Television station in Boston. Ms. Cheng has been director of programming and director of communications for the station. She began at WCVB in 1981 and has…
When in 1975 Tom Wills, sporting fashionably long hair and packing a canary yellow suit, saw the St. Johns River for the first time, he knew that there in , he’d found his boater’s paradise.Later he would realize he had…
Michael Davies, who broke the mold in producing a prime-time network game show, “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” is looking to change the rules again when it comes to advertisers and live prime-time network TV.A new proposed show, “Live…
Dating shows are heating up the summer screens and in turn heating up the rating charts, with each of the genre’s rookie crop nailing a ratings spike, according to Nielsen Media Research, for the week ending June 9.“Elimidate,” “The Fifth…
Brit and Kim Hume, the husband-and-wife power duo at Fox News in Washington, are joking about the Barbeque Country restaurant in rural Warrenton, Va., not far from their modest getaway home in tiny Delaplane, Va.“This is a genuine, legitimate, authentic…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, with Comedy Central’s Larry Divney and host Jon Stewart on the “Daily Show” set in New York June 12.Proctor & Gamble’s Dave Cowan, left, NATPE’s Peggy Kelly and The Game Show Network’s Richard…