Broadcasting & Cable - August 29, 2004

In four short years since Survivor became a breakaway success, reality TV has become the "it" genre. Two cable networks, The Fox Reality Channel and Reality 24-7, will debut showing nothing else, and the Reality TV channel is already available on Dish DBS systems. Below, we give a show-by-show synopsis of the hottest and most talked-about new reality shows.

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Editorials
• Summer TV Love Affair
• Airtime
• Quick DTV Fix Just a "Cheap" Joke

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• One Network at a Time

• Programming
• Syndie Insider
• Local Exclusive
• Market Focus
• Carolina Cool
• Syndication Watch
• Entertaining the Troops

• Special Report
• Close Up: Comcast Corp.
• The Success Story Wall Street Ignores
• From Dad's Suspenders to Cable TV Giant
• Dialing for Dollars
• Comcast Provides Local Cable Ad Clout
• Reality
• Here's How To Sell a Reality Show
• Itkin's Golden Rules For Success
• Reality As They Know It

• TV Buyer
• Media Buyers Handicap Fall

• Technology
• Switching Gears
• Share the Wealth
• Fast and Easy
• Cutting Edge
• Cutting Edge

• Top of the Week
• Masters of the Genre
• Nielsen, Cable to Team?
• Sunday Morning Missionary
• What's Next?
• Coverage Highlights
• The Politics of Coverage
• Breaking...
• Breaking…
• Fast Track
• Fast Track
• In the Loop
• In the Loop
• Station Break
• Station Break