It was a jam-packed ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria for the 68th annual Peabody Awards today. Host Brian Williams joked he was "in the tank" for three of the esteemed awards—for colleague Richard Engel, "Saturday Night Live" and NBC Sports. Winner Doug Ellin of "Entourage"...
It’s time again for TelevisionWeek ’s list of the 10 Most Powerful in TV News. This year’s report card comes at an awkward time: Election-year performances can’t be ignored, and yet they already seem a distant memory, as the industry is roiled by the same economic turmoil as the rest of the nation. While...
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Barack Obama’s inauguration speech generated some record setting Web-video streaming traffic for CNN and its partner Facebook, but will the public be quite as interested in the new president’s State of the Union like address to Congress? The world gets to find out the answer Tuesday as CNN and Facebook...
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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I was flying over “ruby red” Utah last Tuesday when the television networks called the presidential election for Sen. Barack Obama. We’d already had our first beverage and snack service—animal crackers, Terra chips and a Doritos snack mix among the choices—and the JetBlue flight from New York to Oakland...
Dish Network will combine feeds from six of the largest cable news networks on one of its channels starting today through next Friday in an effort to give subscribers more access to news during the days before and after next Tuesday's presidential election. Larger satellite competitor DirecTV announced...
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