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Extended hour and a new hire at KOINCBS affiliate KOIN-TV, Portland, Ore., is expanding its morning newscast by a half-hour, moving the show’s start time from 5:30 a.m. to 5 a.m., to become a two-hour newscast April 1. It will…
In Depth
Profile: Doug McIntyre
Title: President and CEO, On2 Technologies, New York.Background: Mr. McIntyre comes from a publishing background, having worked at Time Inc. and having been the president and editor in chief of Financial World magazine. He segued into technology when he joined…
Liquor ad decision under fire
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…
‘Today’ show: Great idea, rocky start
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…
Cablevision won’t say YES to Hindery
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 looks and smells like recovery
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:…
New shows struggle to make the grade
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…
Clarification
In “Silverman sounds reveille” (EM, March 18) “Big Brother” is a Dutch format created by Endemol Entertainment.
Hollings offers digital piracy legislation
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,…
The Ruminator: Rock a solid choice to get ABC late-night rolling again
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…