Apr
02
Peabody Awards Honor News Coverage, ‘Scandal’ and Foreign Dramas
Posted in: UncategorizedThere were 46 winners for achievement in electronic media, including documentaries, Netflix series and interviews with world leaders.
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Apr
01
Final Four Games Get Local Accents, Sort Of
Posted in: UncategorizedTurner and CBS scrambled to assemble announcing teams for Saturday’s Final Four teamcasts on TNT and truTV.
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Apr
01
‘How I Met Your Mother’ Gets Its Best Ratings for Finale
Posted in: UncategorizedAfter nine years, the CBS comedy tried to wrap up its many loose ends Monday night. The audience of 12.9 million was the show’s largest.
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Apr
01
Advertising: Beware the April Fools’ Jokes Coming From Madison Avenue
Posted in: UncategorizedApril 1 is a day for pranksters, and businesses and chambers of commerce are vying for top attention.
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Mar
31
Hollywood’s Antipiracy Efforts Add New Voice
Posted in: UncategorizedRuth Vitale, an independent film executive, was recently named executive director of CreativeFuture, a new force in the copyright wars.
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Mar
31
The Media Equation: In Media Moguls’ Rarefied Realm, It’s Like Father, Like Son
Posted in: UncategorizedEven a cursory look at the media landscape suggests Rupert Murdoch is far from an outlier in wanting to see a property he built with his bare-knuckled hands land on his progeny.
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Mar
30
NBC Sports Hires ‘G.M.A.’ News Anchor
Posted in: UncategorizedJosh Elliott ends a three-year run as the ABC program’s news anchor during which the show defeated its NBC-owned rival, “Today,” amid fierce competition.
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Mar
29
TV Sports: Local Voices Aren’t So Eager to Go National
Posted in: UncategorizedTurner and CBS are approaching local radio announcers for alternative, hometown-style broadcasts of Final Four games, but loyalty and corporate obligations are keeping those announcers home.
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Mar
28
Digital Music Pioneer Is Found Liable in Copyright Suit
Posted in: UncategorizedMichael Robertson may have to pay up to $41 million in a long-running case involving digital music files.
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Mar
28
Common Sense: A Vision Beyond Cable for Comcast After Merger
Posted in: UncategorizedIf its acquisition of Time Warner Cable is approved, Comcast will become much more than a regional cable company, says its chief executive, Brian Roberts.
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Mar
27
Killing of Afghan Journalist and Family Members Stuns Media Peers
Posted in: UncategorizedThe attack at the Serena Hotel in Kabul that left Sardar Ahmad, his wife and two of their three children dead has devastated his colleagues and prompted an unusual apology from the Taliban.
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Mar
13
Confident CBS Renews 18 Shows at Once
Posted in: UncategorizedThe unexpected news came from the shows that were not on the renewal list, including the new comedy “The Crazy Ones.”
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Mar
13
WGN America Promotes Original Programming With ‘Upfront’ Presentations
Posted in: UncategorizedThe cable network, perhaps best known for live baseball games and reruns of broadcast network series, is creating its own shows.
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Mar
12
Michael J. Fox Says No Series ‘Death Sentence’ Yet
Posted in: UncategorizedThe future of “The Michael J. Fox Show” does not look good, but Mr. Fox is concentrating on making sure the last seven episodes that were filmed are actually seen by audiences.
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Mar
12
CBS Signs Up ‘Big Bang’ for Three More Years
Posted in: UncategorizedThe deal would extend the show, which stands alone as TV’s most popular comedy, through the 2016-17 television season.
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Mar
12
Bill McLaughlin, CBS News Correspondent, Dies at 76
Posted in: UncategorizedIn a 27-year television career, he covered the shooting of Pope John Paul II and conflicts in the Middle East and Vietnam, among other pivotal events.
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Mar
08
Newsweek Returns to Print and Sets Off a Bitcoin Storm
Posted in: UncategorizedThe magazine’s story claiming to have uncovered the founder of the digital currency drew a wave of attention, much of it negative.
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Mar
05
Deal Between Dish and Disney Seen as a Win for Both
Posted in: UncategorizedThe long-term agreement ends fighting over a controversial ad-skipping feature and includes advances in how digital television rights are handled.
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Mar
03
Unilever Drops Ad That Angered Some in New Jersey
Posted in: UncategorizedA billboard that referred to the state as an armpit was to be part of an advertising campaign by Unilever for Dove Advanced Care deodorant.
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Feb
25
A Good Ratings Night for Another New NBC Late-Night Show
Posted in: UncategorizedThe first night of Seth Meyers’s hosting “Late Night” drew 3.4 million viewers, the biggest audience for a Monday show in nine years.
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