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Editorial: NATPE Still Has Value as Gathering Place

Between 7,000 and 8,000 TV executives are expected to gather this week in Las Vegas at the annual convention of the National Association of Television Program Executives. That NATPE has been under fire in recent years, with many questioning both…

Guest Commentary: Out-of-Home TV Ads Finally Coming of Age

The first “upfront” presentation by NBC Everywhere held earlier this month to tout its alternative digital assets marked a significant coming of age for the out-of-home (OOH) TV arena. I would suggest that it also helped to reverse the long-established…

New Media Is New Kid on Block at Event

Online Makes Inroads as Varied Means of Distribution Take Off

Atlas Deals Spanning the Globe

Distributor Takes Diverse Approaches to Filling Content Pipeline, Monetizing Library

Fresh-Start Mindset Key to Jan. Ads

Weight-Loss, Smoking Cessation Products Tap Into New Year Attitude

Tracking Ellen’s Career Highlights

1977 After one semester at the University of New Orleans, where she was majoring in communications, Ellen DeGeneres drops out. She gets a string of “regular” jobs (clerk, retail salesperson, hostess and house painter) before realizing she wants to be…

Revision3 Revs Up Production

Online TV Network Aims to Triple Its Delivery of Video Views by Year’s End

Gralnick Observes 50 Years in News

There was no party this month to mark Jeff Gralnick’s 50th anniversary in the television news business. Instead, TelevisionWeek National Editor Michele Greppi treated Mr. Gralnick to lunch and took notes as they talked about how he got into the…

International Perspective: Dubbing Comes of Age With Latest Technology

I can remember watching Johnny Carson interviewing Michael Landon, who was talking about how silly he looked speaking Japanese in one of the early dubbed episodes of “Bonanza.” Dubbed television was a novelty back then. Today, however, nothing could be…

‘Sopranos,’ ‘The Office’ Win SAG Ensemble Awards

“The Sopranos” took home all three of the Screen Actors Guild Awards for which it was nominated—ensemble, lead actor and lead actress in a drama series—placing a definite final bullet point on the iconic HBO series. James Gandolfini kicked off…