Broadcasting & Cable - July 20, 2008

Marc Graboff was about to get thrown to the wolves, and he knew it. It was last summer at the Television Critics Association press tour at the Beverly Hilton hotel. Graboff was seated next to his NBC Entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman, who had recently been hired when the company ousted former entertainment president Kevin Reilly.

• Deals
• Deals

• Market Eye
• Pirate Pride

• News
• 'Doctors' Rx: Promo $
• TV Stocks Sink To 1990s Levels
• Emmys' Basic Instinct
• BC Beat
• BC Beat
• BC Week
• Where to be & what to watch…
• Bianculli Review
• Buzz Off
• Fast Track
• Olympics Ads 90% Sold Out, NBCU Says
• Gannett, Chyron Clinch AXIS Deal
• Generation Kill Gets Good Start at HBO
• Showtime Finds Reality In Gun Shop
• Stations Feel the Gas Price Pinch
• Couric, McManus Say She's Staying Put
• Fox News' Hume will Leave Anchor Role
• GM Prepares More Ad Cuts
• Regency Television Shuts After A Decade
• Gannett Q2 Earnings Poor; Write-Off Looms
• Miami ABC Affiliate Buying NBCU's WTVJ
• Headlines from Multichannel News
• Left Coast Bias
• Don't Kill Off 'Nightline'
• Station to Station
• Plum Tackles 'Rich' Media
• Take Five
• ATAS: Basic Cable Boom Could Hurt Emmy Ratings
• Technology
• Software Security Still On Hold for Cable
• Washington Watch
• Rule Battle Rages as Media Values Tank

• Opinion
• Airtime
• Media Insurance: Arguing Over 'Dr. Doom'
• Editorial
• Help Wanted

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• From Ad Man to 'Mad Men'

• Syndication
• A $500,000 'Deal'