Broadcasting & Cable - May 21, 2000
Cover Story
The WB wants laughs
The WB extended not just one but a bouquet of olive branches to advertisers for last seasonas 20% ratings fall-off. Now it believes "comedy is critical to our long-term success, and it was a primary development goal for the year," explained The WB Entertainment President Susanne Daniels. One big strategy is to change urban comedies from Fridays to Sundays.
- BROADCASTING
- CABLE
- CHANGING HANDS
- The week's tabulation of station sales
- CHANGING HANDS
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- TVS
- COMBOS
- FMS
- AMS
- CORRECTION:
- COVER_STORY
- EDITORIALS
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
- Lets hear it for the airwaves
- EDITORIALS
- Fire and rescue
- FATES and FORTUNES
- RADIO
- BROADCAST TV
- FATES and FORTUNES
- PROGRAMMING
- JOURNALISM
- CABLE
- ADVERTISING/MARKETING/ PUBLIC RELATIONS
- TECHNOLOGY
- INTERNET
- ALLIED FIELDS
- ASSOCIATIONS/LAW FIRMS
- DEATHS
- Appreciation and additional information
- OPEN MIKE
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- UPN Chief Operating Officer Adam Ware told affiliates last week to spend more on local advertising and promotion, do less in the way of network program preemptions and consult the network before entering into local sports-rights contracts
- IN BRIEF
- Ed Masry, the boss of law siren Erin Brockovich (portrayed by Julia Roberts in the Sony Pictures blockbuster docudrama), has been added to the legal team of Twentieth Televisions Power of Attorney.
- Fellowship honors Sherman
- Pax TV says it has hooked up with a second non-owned NBC affiliate in a local-programming and joint sales venture.
- Thunderbox, a boxing/entertainment weekly hour unveiled at NATPE, has been declared a firm "go" for a September launch.
- The House Commerce Committee last week approved legislation restricting the FCCs ability to set standards for religious broadcasters seeking to operate on non-commercial licenses.
- Adonis Hoffman, deputy chief of the FCCs Cable Services Bureau, is leaving the agency to become senior vice president and counsel at the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
- Wjfk-fm Manassas, Va., a CBS-owned station, was fined $4,000 for failing to tell a caller to the station that her comments would be broadcast.
- A TV cameraman is suing kprc-tv Houston, claiming the station fired him for refusing to use a fake pass for access to political events.
- Waga(tv) Atlanta personality Gurvin Dhindsa will leave that station to become an anchor and reporter at wusa(tv) Washington, D.C.
- AFTRAs Los Angeles chapter wants work rules that allow airborne radio and TV reporters to reject assignments without fear of recrimination, if they are worried about safety.
- Dick Knipfing, described by local media as the dean of TV news in Albuquerque, N.M., has left koat-tv, citing personal reasons-
- Rumors are swirling that the Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), an Internet entertainment site, will file soon for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- Consulting firm BIA Financial Network has officially launched SpectraRep, a company aiming to aggregate DTV spectrum and then represent broadcasters as they pursue new revenues from datacasting services.
- Correction:
- B & C hires new production manager
- INTERNET
- DIVA brings VOD to Liberate
- Cross-platform synergy
- WSIs Intellicast.com: Weather for the Web
- News Corp.s online upfront
- Real entertainment
- DOTS NEW MEDIA CAFE
- TeleCruz earns patents
- Virage gets Popular with WB
- ABC O & Os tape-Commerce
- ICTV adds Yack
- FoxSports tees off with Maximum Golf
- Pinnacle details Internet strategy
- Harmonic launches SatBox access
- SPECIAL REPORT
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- fINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- FCC promises report on LPFM lobbying
- P & G abandons Dr. Laura talker
- TW, Disney shake on it
- DirecTV, CBS do deal
- Kennard backs digital carriage
- Diller buying Trio
- Cablevision tries RCNs strategy
- Court okays cable caps
- AT & T timetable on table
- The AT & T pledge
- Weighing in on DTV
- WASHINGTON WATCH
- Kermit joins V-chip campaign
- NCTA joins FCC on recruiting rules
- BT gets approval for U.S. Intelsat link
- ENG hopefuls weary of delays
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Ackerley to buy hi-def production truck
- Braun is back with informational Web site
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- CBS to spin off radio stations in Texas
- H-A is seller of radio; Emmis may be buyer
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