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Monica Neal has been appointed vice president of emerging markets and partnerships for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies. Ms. Neal will oversee a team charged with creating consumer-centric, integrated marketing campaigns for the networks’ acquired and original programming. Ms. Neal previously served...
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Turner Entertainment Networks promoted Michael Wright to executive VP and head of programming for TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies. Mr. Wright had been senior VP in charge of Turner Entertainment Networks’ content creation group, responsible for all original programming. In his new job he adds oversight...
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Television viewing has been up this year, but the big broadcast networks have registered record declines, according to the chief research officer at Turner Broadcasting. Things will only get tougher for the broadcasters, says Turner’s Jack Wakshlag. He thinks the February transition to digital broadcasting...
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Jeff Margolis Productions will produce the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards for the 11th consecutive year. Executive producer Jeff Margolis will be joined by the entire team of producers and artists behind the past two SAG Awards ceremonies. Kathy Connell will serve as producer, while Gloria Fujita...
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Brad Garrett is set to host TBS’ comedy special “Cheech & Chong Roasted,” airing Nov. 30. Other comics and personalities set to roast the comedy duo include Tom Arnold, Geraldo Rivera, Penn & Teller, Wilmer Valderrama, Greg Giraldo, Rev. Al Sharpton and Shelby Chong, wife of Tommy. The program...
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The Tampa Bay Rays’ victory over the Boston Red Sox in game seven of the American League Championship Series, televised by TBS Sunday night, was the most-watched baseball game of the season and drew the most viewers of any baseball game on cable since 1998, wrapping up a successful series for both the...
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Turner Broadcasting got good news and bad news from baseball on Saturday. Technical difficulties kept it from televising game six of the American League Championship Series until the first inning was nearly over. When TBS joined the game, the score was already 1-0 with the Boston Red Sox leading the...
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As more glamorous teams from bigger markets got knocked out of baseball’s playoffs, Fox Sports President Ed Goren began singing the praises of the City of Brotherly Love. SWINGTOWN Jimmy Rollins and the Philadelphia Phillies earned a spot in the World Series by defeating the Dodgers in the NLCS. “Philadelphia...
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The first round of baseball’s postseason didn’t go well for Turner Broadcasting, which has exclusive rights to the divisional series. Viewership on TBS slid 25% from last year for the games that were played, and only two of the four series avoided being three-game sweeps, with each of those two series...
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TBS has renewed its original sitcom “My Boys” for a third season. Nine new episodes are expected to premiere in the first quarter of 2009. The series’ second season attracted more than 1.5 million viewers, a 14% increase over its first season. “This past summer, ‘My Boys’ continued to catch on with audiences...
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TBS has renewed “The Bill Engvall Show” for a third season. The network has ordered 10 episodes to premiere in summer 2009. TBS also will air two special episodes of the show in time for the holidays. “There's something about this cast and this show that gives you a good feeling inside, which is...
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With baseball’s post-season just around the corner, TBS is stepping up its marketing game for the channel’s upcoming coverage of the National League and American League Division Series and the American League Championship Series. As part of the channel’s effort to increase awareness of the games, the...
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TBS said it ordered 10 episodes of a new sitcom from Tyler Perry. The new series, “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns,” is scheduled to debut on TBS in January. “Meet the Browns” stars David Mann as Leroy Brown, a character featured in Mr. Perry's movie of the same name released earlier in the year. Mr...
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Imaginary friends, talking animals and war are some of the topics behind the juried Emmy Award winners announced today by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Character designer Ben Balistreri from Cartoon Network’s “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” and animator Teresa Drilling from CBS...