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Despite the current economic downturn, the Consumer Electronics Show kicking off in Las Vegas this week is projecting that attendance in the entertainment category will hold steady with last year. Overall, the Consumer Electronics Association expects about 130,000 attendees for the annual tech-centric...
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For television, there seem to be more questions than answers as 2008 comes to a close: How many industry pros will lose their jobs? How long will the recession last? How badly will the advertising market that is TV’s lifeblood falter? Wave after wave of anxiety-provoking headlines don’t help matters...
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12-14-2008
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Ad spending dropped 2% in the third quarter from the previous year despite the Olympics and presidential election, TNS Media Intelligence reported Thursday. For the first nine months of 2008, total spending was down 1.7%, but most national TV categories showed gains, with network up 3%, cable up 3.7...
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Clark Productions has ordered up a helping of "Chicken Soup for the Soul." The independent production company founded by Mr. Clark has signed a deal with "Soup" co-founder Jack Canfield to develop a TV series based on the successful book publishing franchise. The two parties didn't...
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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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Discovery Communications, which will partner with Oprah Winfrey in the new OWN cable network starting next year, expects her to stop doing her syndicated show in September 2011. “The expectation is that after that, her show will go off of ABC in syndication and she will come to OWN," Discovery CEO...
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CBS Corp. reported a third-quarter net loss of $12.5 billion, or $18.58 per share, despite a slight uptick in revenue that came mostly from syndication growth and the acquisition of CNET. CBS had said earlier in October that it would be taking a $14 billion writedown because of the diminished market...
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10-30-2008
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Filed under: Broadcast, Cable, Showtime, Advertising, Syndication, Katie Couric, Earnings, Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp., CNET, CBS College Sports Network, Sumner Redstone
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Sumner Redstone’s National Amusements movie theater circuit said it is in discussion with its bankers and other noteholders about the company’s debt as a result of the sharp drop in the value of the CBS and Viacom stock it holds. Mr. Redstone had to sell $233 million in nonvoting stock in Viacom and...
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Record ratings and double-digit growth at its cable properties helped NBC Universal beat expectations and stand out as a golden-haired child of parent company General Electric, which reported a 22% drop in net income for the third quarter. Considered an economic bellwether, GE said Friday that its net...
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Former writers of TBS’ “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” along with supporters of the Writers Guild of America, will picket the opening this weekend of Mr. Perry’s new studio in Atlanta. Kellie Griffin, Christopher Moore, Teri Brown-Jackson and Lamont Ferrell allege they were fired from “Payne” after a...
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Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” and syndicated sister show “The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet” are getting new executive producers. The changes, announced late Monday afternoon, will bring former Fox News Channel alumna Lauren Petterson back from WBCS-TV, where she was the executive producer...
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MGM and ICM staffers have returned to their Century City offices following a bomb threat to the MGM Tower. "Building management instructed us to go back to work," an MGM Studios representative said via e-mail. ICM staffers also were back on the job. On Tuesday, Defamer and CurbedLA posted a...
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Steve Mosko is staying put at Sony. The president of the studio's television division has signed a new four-year deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment that will keep him there through 2012. SPE Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton and SPE Co-Chairman Amy Pascal announced the deal Wednesday. Mr. Mosko's...