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…
Television stations will need to collectively negotiate with cable operators, seek program-access safeguards, better leverage their local ties and bond more with broadcast networks if they want to survive more deregulation and deteriorating economics.That was the consensus of companion panel…
Danielle Gelber has joined Showtime Networks as VP of original programming. Ms. Gelber most recently served as senior VP of drama series programming for Fox, where she headed the drama development department and developed such series as “The X-Files,” “Ally…
Looking to build upon UPN’s unexpected double-digit growth spurts in the key female demographic ratings, the network last week named Dawn Tarnofsky-Ostroff, a senior programming executive at Lifetime Television, as president of UPN Entertainment. The first major management move since…
Cable’s SoapNet is bubbling with programming and multiplexing plans, including one for a Spanish-language soap-opera network that might be called TelenovelaNet.“We think it’s a natural for us,” said Deborah Blackwell, the network’s general manager. The network, part of the ABC…
At left, gathering at the Game Show Network’s TCA party are Rich Cronin, left, Monty Hall, Peter Tomarken, Bob Eubanks, Chuck Woolery, Alex Trebek and Bob Boden. Above, Brent Willman, left, Anne Droste, Steve Webster and Dena Kaplan.Crown Media’s Lana…
* Due to an error by Nielsen Media Research, the Basic Cable Ratings chart for the week of Dec. 31, 2001 to Jan. 6, 2002, (EM, Jan. 14) omitted HGTV’s Rose Parade coverage (Tuesday, Jan. 1, at 11 a.m.), which…