Rumors rock AOL TW, ViacomThe executive suites at two of the world’s largest media companies were jolted by unsettling press reports that have left Wall Street analysts and investors wondering about the future of leadership at Viacom and AOL Time…
What it is: Avid Unity for News, from Avid in Tewskbury, Mass.What it does: Avid Unity for News is a shared media network for broadcast news production that makes media available to any workstation connected to it in real time….
Citing financial duress, the executive committee of the Association of Local Television Stations last week approved a plan to pull the plug on the organization, sources said.The proposal is subject to a vote of the organization’s full 17-member board of…
Chase Carey just got tired of waiting.The 48-year-old News Corp. veteran resigned as co-chief operating officer and president/CEO of Sky Global Networks, saying the stand-alone global satellite entity he was to have built out for the company is on indefinite…
The war between the National Association of Television Program Executives and a number of major studios, led by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution President Dick Robertson, may have been inevitable, but it needs to be resolved soon. Last week’s NATPE…
CBS renews 9 shows, but ‘Bickford,’ ‘Family Law,’ ‘Ellen’ still in doubt for next season CBS has renewed four comedies and five dramas for 2002-03, but some of this season’s series may not make the cut. CBS renewed its entire…
Ware staying on at UPNLos Angeles-A memo from CBS Television President and CEO Leslie Moonves circulated to UPN staffers Friday confirmed that Adam Ware, chief operating officer of UPN, is staying on with the network. While Mr. Ware’s current contract…
How ironic: With production costs still escalating for prime-time series on the major broadcast outlets, it may be their arch-enemy, cable networks, that save the economics of producing TV series.Increasingly, the vertically integrated studio conglomerates with large cable network portfolios…
Full-year 2002 advertising expenditures will rise 2 percent over last year for network television, 1.1 percent for cable television and 2.5 percent for spot television, according to a new forecast from CMR, the Taylor Nelson Sofres company that specializes in…
While Warner Bros. Domestic Television talk show “Caroline Rhea” was originally designed to take the time slots of “Rosie O’Donnell,” it could end up in late-night instead.At last week’s National Association of Television Program Executives convention, Warner Bros. announced that…