Capitalizing on uniquely Alaskan events is one thing that drives advertisers in Anchorage, Alaska. For example, last month NBC affiliate KTUU-TV aired “Yukon Quest,” an annual dog sled race between Alaska and Canada. The Canadian tourism board and the race…
A sad-eyed pediatrician sits in a sparsely furnished office in a Denver suburb, hoping to resuscitate a career that has spun wildly out of control. Suspended from his practice after a series of medical errors in a case that ended…
In the February local sweeps chart (March 18, Page 16), independent station WTBS-TV was inadvertently left out of the Atlanta market. To see a complete version of the Atlanta market, please go to EMonline.com.
Thanks to recent advances in graphics card capabilities for PCs, TV stations that once viewed the adoption of virtual studio technology as too expensive can now consider implementing such solutions, since the costs have dropped drastically this year.Broadcasters no longer…
The most astounding thing about the problems and challenges vexing AOL Time Warner is that they are happening at all.Eighteen months ago, the merger of the companies was heralded as a bellwether for integrating new and old media and mining…
Uncle Miltie dead at 93Milton Berle, the legendary vaudeville comedian who became TV’s first comic superstar, died in his sleep on March 27 at his home in Los Angeles at age 93, according to his publicist Warren Cowan. Since suffering…
In for a dollar, in for a million on `Jeopardy!’With apologies to that long-distance phone advertiser who touts the value of a single buck, you’ll have to wait for the May sweeps to see just how much a dollar is…
Some insiders are calling it television’s “anti-Enquirer.”Telepictures’ upcoming newsmagazine strip “Celebrity Justice” has already garnered the kind of national attention that most upcoming shows drool over. Currently a regular segment on fellow Telepictures series “Extra,” “Celebrity Justice” found and aired…
The WB next season plans to multiplex at least five hours of its prime-time programs on its own network and the Turner cable networks, where it will ask advertisers to pay up to 85 percent of the initial unit prices…
They moved in and out of the room at a five-minute clip-same lines, same verse. But it was the syncopated rhythm of the pro watching these actors audition that was worth noting.His name is Joseph Middleton, and he is a…