Thanks for your recent editorial entitled “NATPE Take-Home: Change Is Imperative” (TelevisionWeek, Feb. 2). We understand that to be true. We are all dealing with economic stress and there is no segment of our business immune from the pressure of trying to find a better business model for the future...
Anxiety is a common emotion at this year’s National Association of Television Program Executives conference in Las Vegas, as the shaky economy and thin station budgets threaten participation and attendance. Rick Feldman, president-CEO of NATPE, is well aware of that, but he’s tempering concerns with...
Sometimes it seems as if the death knell for syndication has been sounding since the days of “Donahue.” Hand-wringers have been writing off the genre for years, declaring that daytime is dead or that off-net half-hours are endangered due to the drought of hit sitcoms on the broadcast networks. The only...