The highest honor bestowed by the RTNDA, the Paul White Award, now belongs to Fred Young, the recently retired senior vice president of news for Hearst-Argyle Television. He is the first Paul White honoree since 1984 who has spent his…
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At the NAB Show in Las Vegas this week, seven-time Emmy Award-winning actress Mary Tyler Moore will be honored with the organization’s grandest prize, the Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes figures who have made “significant and lasting contributions to…
There is $14.95 burning a hole in my pocket every month. It’s itching to jump into the bank account of Major League Baseball every month for the next six months. But the league won’t let that money leave my wallet….
The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a tentative agreement for a new labor contract, calming fears of a strike that had put Hollywood on edge for nearly a year. The tentative…
A Pew study released late last year showed that, for Americans under 30, the Internet has all but overtaken TV as their primary source of news. TV types no doubt greeted the report with alarm. I wouldn’t be surprised if…
Heidrick & Struggles will head the Television Bureau of Advertising’s search for its new president. Hedrick’s Michael Speck and Mark Casey will lead the search. Current TVB President Chris Rohrs will leave the organization at the end of this year.
The television industry received a ray of hope in its battle to protect a key future revenue source—online content—from Web thievery last week when the people behind file-sharing site the Pirate Bay were convicted of copyright violation. Friday’s verdict in…