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Adalian Column: Autumn Is the Age of Anxiety

As the networks prepare for the launch of yet another season, what should be a time for celebration feels more like a day of reckoning. TVWeek’s Fall Features Fall Schedule Chart: Shows & Debut Dates-Print & Save . . ….

Broadcast Battle Comes Into Focus

Key Moves for New Season, Night by Night and Net by Net

Fox.com Rolls Out Show-Driven Redesign

Fox has been quietly rolling out a wholesale makeover of its Web site, refashioning the site to make it more show-driven. All of the network’s major prime-time series are being given individual homepages designed to mirror the distinct tones of…

NBCOlympics.com Scores Sliver of Ad Revenue

NBCOlympics.com earned only $5.75 million in online video advertising revenue, according to estimates released today by eMarketer. The new-media research firm issued the projection based on video streams delivered on the site during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. eMarketer said the…

Chart: 2008 Fall Broadcast Schedule With Premiere Dates

When Is Your Favorite Show Coming Back?

CW’s ‘Stylista’ Gets Early Start

“Stylista” starts showing its stuff sooner than anticipated, as the show is premiering a week earlier than announced, on Oct. 22 at 9 p.m., The CW said today. Billed as being “The Devil Wears Prada” as reality show, “Stylista” comes…

Global TV Shipments Grow 11% in 2Q

Global television shipments in the second quarter rose 11% from a year earlier to 47.5 million units, NPD Group unit DisplaySearch said today. North American flat-screen TV sales surged in advance of February’s U.S. switchover to all-digital broadcasts, while customers…

Nielsen Tracks Presidential Candidates’ Ad Time

New data from the Nielsen Co. finds that while Barack Obama has run more local TV spots than John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee has placed more national cable TV ads than his Democratic counterpart during June and July. Nielsen…

Cine Latino Taps McNamara as Chairman

James M. McNamara has joined Spanish-language premium film channel Cine Latino as non-executive chairman. He will oversee programming, distribution, marketing and finance for the channel. Mr. McNamara was president and CEO of Telemundo from 1999 to 2005. He also was…

YouTube Feels Heat of Summer

Summer was good to YouTube. The world’s biggest video-sharing site delivered 5 billion streams to nearly 78 million unique visitors in July, according to Video Census figures from Nielsen Online. That’s a 25% increase in volume from June, when YouTube…