Expect the Unexpected in Emmy Nominations
Prime Time TV Awards Offer a Mix of Usual Suspects and Surprising Newcomers
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ABC News: Brian Ross Investigates: Conduct Unbecoming
The roots of ABC News’ award-winning reports on Rep. Mark Foley’s inappropriate messages to congressional pages of high school age go back more than a decade, to the 1996 political conventions, when the network’s chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross and…
CBC: Braindamadj’d … Take II
Canadian television director Paul Nadler was in a coma for six weeks in 1994. He wasn’t expected to walk again, talk again, at times even to live. But he defied expectations, regaining many of his motor and cognitive skills during…
The Insider: Of ‘Tudes and Tunes and Ts
Random observations and opinions from the CBS affiliates convention last week in Las Vegas: CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith, CBS Corp.’s fast-rising, fast-talking new-media star, may finally be the casually dressed, running-shoe’d dude who can get the network and its…
Book Excerpt: Who’s Selling, Who’s Buying, Who’s Counting
Verklin/Kanner Book Takes a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Constantly Changing Landscape of Media Advertising
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Startup Channels Share of Revenue to Users Who Create Personalized Sites
VideoJug Bottles One-Stop Shopping
Schankowitz Builds Online Repository of Self-Help Shorts
CBC: Why We Fight
The producers list for “Why We Fight,” the Peabody-winning documentary on the United States military-industrial complex, runs to more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to the United Kingdom’s BBC, Estonia’s ETV and numerous European broadcasters. Conspicuously…
IFC: Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet
In IFC’s documentary short series “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet,” 10-year-old Mohamed Sidibay talks about how he escaped life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In the film he’s a fourth-grader who likes to play soccer,…
Ad Buyers on NBC: Wait ‘Til Next Year
Exec Shift Should Not Affect This Upfront