“Candidly, Katie going to CNN is meaningless. At CNN, she would have no more impact than Connie Chung, Paula Zahn, Aaron Brown or any of that network’s past saviors. The big-picture question is whether the traditional early-evening network newscast is…
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Promax/BDA will present World Wrestling Entertainment Founder-Chairman Vince McMahon with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the association’s 53rd annual conference, set for June 17-19 in New York. Mr. McMahon will be recognized for his syndication, cable and pay-per-view entrepreneurship that…
A keystone of good journalism is transparency. That is, telling the news consumer enough about how a story was reported to let them judge how much credence it deserves. Recently, The New York Times pulled back the curtain on how…
NBC Entertainment Co-chairman Ben Silverman said his contemporaries in Hollywood understand intuitively the symbiotic relationship between advertisers and programmers. “There’s a new generation of creative forces inside Hollywood who I’ve grown up with and helped accelerate the careers of many…
The first ever New Media Minute-TVWeek.com “Hottest Web Host” Tournament enters its final round of voting today. The contest, which kicked off in late April, will conclude on Friday, May 9 at 2 p.m. when the polls close. Last week,…
A group of congressmen is calling on the Pentagon’s Inspector General to probe whether the Department of Defense went too far in trying to sway the opinions of military analysts on network and cable TV shows in behalf of the…
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists pushed the start date for its negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers again, as the AMPTP and the Screen Actors Guild continue their separate contract negotiations. AFTRA agreed…