CNN loses its way
Where have you gone, Ted Turner? CNN turns its lonely eyes to you.OK, it isn’t Simon and Garfunkel, and who among the 18 to 34 set remembers “The Graduate”? But with last month’s cable news ratings causing an earthquake in…
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FCC ponders how to handle frequency requestsThe Federal Communications Commission last week launched proceedings to determine what to do when noncommercial broadcasters want to apply for new frequencies that haven’t been specifically reserved for noncommercial operations. The FCC originally wanted…
Make way for the next generation of news stars
They’re hot, happening and on their way up: the Rathers, Courics and Hewitts of the future. Searching high and low, from CNN to MSNBC, from Boston to Denver, we’ve identified the next generation of television news stars (with a little…
ABC, Fox, UPN mixing it up in late-night
NBC and CBS may have firmed up their late-night schedules, but tensions are starting to build as ABC, Fox, UPN and syndicators weigh their options in the daypart.After word leaked out that Fox was pursuing Conan O’Brien for a late-night…
Close-up: Tamra Seldin
Sesame Workshop, creator of such brands as “Sesame Street,” “Dragon Tales” and “Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat,” has named Tamra Seldin VP of marketing, global consumer products and international TV distribution. Ms. Seldin will be responsible for developing product-marketing strategies…
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Advertising & AgenciesKevin Joyce to local sales manager, St. Louis City, Central West End and Jefferson County, Charter Advertising St. Louis, from account executive, KDNL-TV, St. Louis. Also, Larry LeCompte Jr. to local sales manager, Metro East area, from senior…
Broadcasters stymie discount political spots
The broadcast lobby has slain its fiercest election reform dragon but left some small dragons unscathed.The National Association of Broadcasters’ battle last week to kill language in the Shays-Meehan campaign finance bill that forced television stations to sell political ad…
Station sales reawakened
Viacom’s $650 million acquisition of KCAL-TV in Los Angeles isn’t the only news on the long-dormant TV station front signaling an onset of deals and events that will reshape the broadcasting landscape.There is lots of activity occurring just below the…
NBC’s Steve Schwaid leads KNTV transition
Former WCAU-TV News Director Steve Schwaid is at the center of the hectic world that is KNTV, San Jose, Calif. He is the leader of the 18-person transition team, which is overseeing the now NBC affiliate and soon to be…
Mr. Price is right for NATAS’s future
A merger of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is not in the stars.“It never will be one organization. We do the same things, but we do different things,” said…