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NATPE has scheduled its third annual LATV Fest for July 8-9 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Jordan Hoffner, director of content partnerships for YouTube, will give the opening keynote address. Confirmed speakers and panelists for the conference include RDF Media USA’s Chris Coelen...
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With the local advertising market in the tank, everyone knows times are tough for television stations. The problem is that business conditions aren’t likely to get better any time soon, and that has industry executives talking about more station owners declaring bankruptcy, getting taken over by their...
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The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors and the National Association of Television Program Executives will host a breakfast panel discussion about long-form programming entitled "“The Changing Face of the M.O.W." on Feb. 25 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Panel members are scheduled to...
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Sometimes a TV theme song can say a lot. Last week, 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman were sitting on a stage in Las Vegas at the National Association of Television Program Executives convention. It was just after 8 a.m., the room was a little more than half-full and NATPE chief...
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ABC has learned that doubling the ad load from four to eight in its online primetime shows doesn't decrease consumer interest in watching shows online, said Albert Cheng, executive VP of digital media with the Disney-ABC Television Group, during an afternoon panel at NATPE. During its research, the...
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Online television studio Generate struck a multiyear television development and production deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television, one of a growing number of partnerships between a new-media shop and a traditional television studio or network. The companies announced the deal at the National Association...
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With the economic model for reality television shifting not just yearly but monthly, networks still want to be pitched just on the core creative idea and not on ancillary businesses that surround a show idea. "If a producer comes in with a pitch and a package like an ad model or products around...
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NBC's programming chief Ben Silverman has a solution to help broadcasters make more money. They should be able to sell to advertisers against the live-plus-seven-day ratings for shows, Mr. Silverman said during a morning keynote interview at NATPE in Las Vegas. "We don't get paid for live...
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Broadcast television as it was previously known is dead, said Lionsgate Co-Chairman and CEO Jon Feltheimer during his keynote address this morning at the 2009 NATPE convention in Las Vegas. Mr. Feltheimer said the old model of television is deceased, and a new model that rewards new thinking, fresh ideas...
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ABC doesn't plan to mimic NBC's move to ditch dramas in the 10 p.m. timeslot as NBC will do next year when it strips Jay Leno during that time period, Disney-ABC's Anne Sweeney said during a keynote interview at NATPE in Las Vegas this morning. In fact, she likes having one less competitor...
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Monday, Jan. 26 Sixth Annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards 6-8 p.m., Ballroom F Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney, NBC Entertainment & Universal Media Studios Co-Chairman Ben Silverman, actor-writer-director-producer Tyler Perry and Chuck Lorre, executive producer/co-creator of...
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Plans for the first day of the 2009 NATPE convention, which had been slated to feature a day-long training seminar, have been shelved, leaving NATPE officials searching for an alternative. Originally announced in early October as an executive management program entitled “Managing Change in a Turbulent...
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TiVo President-CEO Tom Rogers will deliver the 2009 National Association of Television Program Executive Newsmaker Address during the organization’s conference on Wednesday, Jan. 28, NATPE President-CEO Rick Feldman announced today. Mr. Rogers’ address, entitled “Avoiding the Demise of Advertising,”...
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The National Association of Television Program Executives extended President and CEO Rick Feldman's contract by three years. The new contract will keep Mr. Feldman at NATPE until the spring of 2012. "We've evolved from a domestic syndication show to a global distribution show," Mr....
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GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE NATPE is expected to incorporate the most popular pieces of LATV into its annual January convention in Las Vegas. As the LATV Festival readies for its sophomore outing this week, executives at the National Association of Television Program Executives are looking at the gathering...