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…
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,…
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…
Posted Friday, March 8, at 4:30 a.m. (PT); last updated at 3:25 p.m. CBS bids $31.5 million to keep Letterman The bidding war for David Letterman, who currently earns a reported $30 million per year at CBS, is now up…
Posted Thursday, March 7, at 3:45 a.m. (PT); last updated at 1 p.m. CNN looking at KoppelCNN is eyeing ABC’s Ted Koppel for its own newsbeat. The Atlanta-based all-news network’s Chairman Walter Isaacson would “love to talk” to Koppel about…
Posted Wednesday, March 6, at 4:15 a.m. (PT); last updated at 4:15 p.m. MTV’s ‘Osbournes’ is the highest-rated series premiere in net’s history The opening episode on Tuesday night of “The Osbournes,” the new MTV series in which cameras follow…
Posted Tuesday, March 5, at 10:30 a.m. (PT); last updated at 4:25 p.m. Diller gets bigger stake in Vivendi Universal Jean-Marie Messier is so pleased with the integration efforts Barry Diller is overseeing at the merging Vivendi Universal Entertainment that…
A proposal designed to reunite stray distributors at the annual National Association of Television Program Executives market has met with positive reaction from domestic distributors, at least for the 2003 gathering.The trade organization, which suffered from defecting longtime exhibitors in…
Parents of small children got some bad news last month when the Disney Channel announced it has begun selling advertising time. The cable channel had been free of ads since its inception 19 years ago.The channel’s new sponsorship deal with…
Though NBC easily won the prime-time ratings crowns during February sweeps, not all the NBC-owned and affiliated stations won all their news races.In New York, WNBC-TV was the model NBC station, winning sign-on to sign-off with a 6.5/15 compared with…