Posted Friday, March 1, at 11:55 a.m. (PT); last updated at 2:20 p.m. Letterman, ABC in talks ABC is negotiating with David Letterman, whose contract with CBS for his “Late Show” ends in August, and has apparently decided that no…
Posted Thursday, Feb. 28, at 10 a.m. (PT); last updated at 2:08 p.m. Senators seek deadline for digital piracy protection Senate lawmakers will soon offer legislation that gives the television, movie, consumer electronics and computer industries a firm deadline to…
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 10:30 a.m. (PT); last updated at 2:45 p.m. Lachlan Murdoch joins Fox Entertainment Group board Lachlan Murdoch, 30, who recently added oversight of the 33 stations owned and operated by Fox to his print-asset duties,…
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 11:58 a.m. (PT); last updated at 5:15 p.m. NBC nails it, winning final Olympic week As expected, NBC, fueled by the final week of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, won its biggest weekly…
Posted Monday, Feb. 25, at 8:15 a.m. (PT); last updated at 4:05 p.m. Kaczmarek walks off ‘Malcolm’ set Jane Kaczmarek, co-star of Fox’s “Malcolm in the Middle,” walked off the set of the hit sitcom two weeks ago in what…
Don’t ever dare suggest reality TV is nothing more than a passing fad to David Goldberg.As president of Endemol Entertainment USA, Mr. Goldberg’s exploitation of the reality TV genre-most recently in the form of NBC’s breakout ratings hit “Fear Factor”-could…
Shepherding a television advertising spot through the network clearance process used to require a swift-footed messenger, an overnight delivery service, faxes, phone calls and lots of hoping that everything got where it was supposed to-intact and on time.About five years…
* In “Big-city news directors a diverse bunch” (EM, Feb. 18), Princell Hair is news director at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.* In “Dot-com executives plug back into cable” (EM, Feb. 18), David Kohl and Evan Sternschien’s pictures were reversed.# David…
Ebert undergoing cancer surgeryRoger Ebert, co-host of Buena Vista Television’s “Ebert & Roeper,” was scheduled to have a cancerous growth on his thyroid gland surgically removed Friday, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times. The Sun-Times film critic, who…
After his death Feb. 15, The New York Times simply wrote, “Howard K. Smith, Courtly, Outspoken Voice of Radio and Television, Is Dead at 87.”I always attributed his courtliness to his Southern upbringing, but his outspoken voice was more of…