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Posted Monday, March 11, at 8:59 a.m. (PT); updated at 6:30 p.m. Dave makes it official: He’s staying at CBS David Letterman has decided to stay at CBS. ABC has decided to leave “Nightline” at 11:35 p.m. The CBS “Late…
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Wright leads a BET news renaissance
On Dec. 31, Will Wright was looking forward to not working for the first time in 35 years.UPN-affiliated WWOR-TV, where he’d been the hard-charging news director for nine years, had been absorbed into a Fox-run duopoly with WNYW-TV in the…
It’s a small world for `Nightline’
I remember meeting Michael Eisner in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington. It was hard to look him in the eye because his eyes are very high up and very, very tiny; maybe he’s a cartoon. He…
Profile: Abby Auerbach
Title: Executive VP, Television Bureau of Advertising, a broadcast-industry trade association focused on local broadcast television and local broadcast ad sales.Recent interesting deal: “Back when I ran the local broadcast buying group at Ogilvy…one of my favorites was Thanksgiving a…
FX hopes `The Shield’ will help it bust out
FX’s “The Shield” doesn’t simply push the envelope, it blows it away.Running hard against the retro, feel-good, pro-police TV tide ascendant since Sept. 11, “The Shield,” starring Michael Chiklis (“The Commish”) as an L.A. cop who appears to be very…
Late-night soap opera
The man has made millions of us laugh as host of a talk show we invite into our homes right before we go to bed, yet he’s been described off-air as “testy, defensive, preoccupied, withdrawn … and uncomfortable with people.”…
EM TICKER
70 Percentage of news directors surveyed by RTNDA who feel reporters should be allowed to use hidden cameras and microphones when the story warrants it.50 Number of states that officially allow cameras in the courtroom under certain conditions and in…
He grabs a bag and a camera and goes where the action is
At 38 years of age, Michael Kirsch, a reporter for CBS-owned WFOR-TV, Miami, seems to have lived longer than his years.Mr. Kirsch is not your typical local news talent. In the 1990s he covered the wars in Kosovo and Bosnia,…
D.C. talking heads: knowing the score
When was it, last night or last weekend? You were watching “Meet the Press” or “The O’Reilly Factor” or “Nightline,” and there was that damn blowhard guest again. “Am I the only one who notices that?” you think to yourself.On…
Nasty, brutish, long upfront anticipated
The pre-upfront spin doctoring has begun, with advertising sellers at the networks pointing optimistically at signs of economic recovery, while ad-agency buyers are viewing the very same economy with alarm and a lugubrious sense of deepening gloom.“The buyers’ point of…