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…
Ware staying on at UPN A memo from CBS Television President/CEO Leslie Moonves circulated to UPN staffers Friday confirmed that Adam Ware, chief operating officer of UPN, is staying on with the network. UPN and CBS officials could not be…
Posted Thursday, Jan. 24, at 1:24 p.m.; last updated at 4:50 p.m. Hart, Berman promoted at Paramount Confirming previous speculation (EMonline.com, Jan. 11), Paramount Television Group has undertaken a restructuring of network TV production and distribution divisions, with longtime executives…
Posted Wednesday, Jan. 23, at 11:50 a.m. (PT); last updated at 1:45 p.m. NATPE supporters emerge amid Robertson-led revolt A war of words over syndicators’ relationship with NATPE that started innocently enough at a press conference called to announce clearances…
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 10:15 a.m. (PT); last updated at 3:55 p.m. Chung jumping to CNN ABC’s Connie Chung is heading to Cable News Network, where she will anchor a prime-time news show, according to a report in the…
Most significantprofessional accomplishment: “Surviving 15 years at NBC … and spending my whole career at NBC.”What he watches on television: “I religiously watch `Law & Order,’ wherever it is on anybody’s network,” he said in reference to the three incarnations…
Cable interconnects in the nation’s two largest markets, New York and Los Angeles, are discussing linking together so advertisers can make a single giant bicoastal local-cable buy.That plan for cooperation between New York Interconnect and L.A.-based Adlink will go forward…
Most significant professional accomplishment: “Being a part of a team [at USA Networks] that took a notion of a business-who knew there was a notion of basic cable in 1982-and built it into a multinational company.”What he watches on television:…
Most significant professional accomplishment: “The honor of being selected by President Bush to head the FCC at this challenging time.”What he watches on television: “I watch a lot of TV. I especially watch a lot with my children. At present…
If rituals such as NATPE and the upfront advertising market seem dysfunctional, it is because some of the most important underpinnings of the television industry are changing but have not yet translated into new ways of doing business.Media executives are…