Trading a journalism career for one in public relations isn’t an unusual move, but it’s rarely a switch made by broadcasters at the top of their game.No one would suggest that former CNN “Talk Back” host Bobbie Battista and CNN…
CBS is not renewing its affiliation agreement with one of its strongest outlets, WJXT-TV, the dominant Jacksonville, Fla., station owned by Post-Newsweek.The rupture comes after two years of negotiation about compensation, which CBS intended to end, and other issues. The…
Fox affils get sales tip at seminarsFox affiliates across the country will give tips on selling the network lineup-and updates on the network’s 2002-03 lineup-when Fox Broadcasting stages sales seminars in eight cities in June. The three-day blitz will find…
After the September terrorist attacks on the United States, insurance rates increased sharply in all industries, television included. The costs of producing programming-from commercials to news to series to awards specials-have been affected.“In general, rates have gone up 25 to…
Twentieth Television’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and Columbia TriStar Domestic Television’s “The Steve Harvey Show” are in the running to become the first syndicated series to outperform their network counterparts in two ratings categories.So far this season, “Buffy” is earning…
Reruns of “The X-Files” and “Roswell” are coming to the Sci-Fi Channel.“X-Files” is expected to debut this October. The eight-year deal calls for a shared window with TNT. The 202 “X-Files” episodes will be exclusive to Sci-Fi during Monday-through-Friday prime…
Good luck to Don Hewitt in building support for his noble and timely proposal to merge the three network nightly newscasts. But as long as we’re dreaming, why not really dream?Why not tilt at something worthy of the name quixotic?…
The Napsterization of television is happening bit by bit, megabyte by megabyte, and the time is now for producers, distributors, networks, engineers and lawmakers to plan the industry’s next move.Even without widespread adoption of digital TV, watchable copies of television…
It’s time once again for Electronic Media to ponder the who, what, where, whence and why of power in TV journalism and define the power brokers and power players in TV news.On Sept. 11 this country witnessed a display of…
At the “Fear No More: End Violence Against Women” screening in New York are Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, left, Lifetime’s Rosemary Sykes, Dr. Shamita Das Dasgupta, Lifetime’s Bill Brand, the documentary’s Karen, Sachet and Marisol, and Lifetime’s Mary Dixon and Gerry…