The Madison Avenue architect of the carefully crafted campaign to bring distilled spirits ads to broadcast-network television fired back at what he considers to be network-affiliate hypocrisy, political duplicity and industry timidity leading to NBC’s sudden decision to cease hard-liquor…
During the early planning of the “Today” show, I wrote in a memo to the staff: “Seventy-five percent of all homes use radio between 7 [a.m.] and 9 [a.m.]. A great deal of that usage is music and news as…
Leo Hindery, chairman of the just-launched YES Network, says the current standoff between the network and Cablevision Systems in New York is the result of consolidation.“The consequence of consolidation is that larger players get treated best, and they should,” he…
It’s difficult at this stage to know where wishful thinking ends and reality takes over, but Wall Street clearly believes that advertiser spending and the general economy are improving more quickly than originally expected.That raises at least two pressing issues:…
A few weeks out of the February sweeps and NBC’s Olympics juggernaut, scant few midseason series are getting strong initial sampling-although Fox could be the first to solidly plant some stakes.Judging from good early reviews and its ratings performance, the…
In “Silverman sounds reveille” (EM, March 18) “Big Brother” is a Dutch format created by Endemol Entertainment.
Legislation introduced late last week by Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., would require media companies to adopt standards to protect digital television and broadband content from Internet piracy or have the government do it for them.The bill gives the TV, movie,…
As regular readers of my meanderings know, I have a passion for scotch, so count me as one who had been looking forward to those hard-liquor ads that NBC just wimped out on. More important-OK, OK, equally important-as regular readers…
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Televisa adopts Tandberg systemMexican broadcaster Televisa is incorporating Tandberg Television’s Voyager Lite D-ENG solution into its day-to-day live broadcast operations. Voyager Lite is a backpack D-ENG system designed for wireless cameras and remote news gathering that allows camera operators to…