Paige Albiniak

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Revising history: Why I should have sat on that last blog post

Funny story about yesterday’s blog item on OWN’s Lisa Erspamer . First of all, I posted it but then our blog tool mysteriously deleted it. We still don’t know how that happened, but I now suspect it was because the news angels that occasionally watch over me were trying to tell me something. Like maybe WAIT, HOLD UP, STOP because something bigger was coming. An... More

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Erspamer named OWN's CCO

I’ve heard a lot of industry chatter about when (and even whether) OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is going to launch. Initially it was supposed to launch this year, but the economy and challenges of coming up with 24 hours per day of programming has pushed that back to some unspecified time next year. The network is hiring like gangbusters though, expecting to launch in 2010.... More

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Shake up at CNN

Ratings results for Tuesday’s election coverage came in today, and the results remained depressing for CNN . The network that started it all continued its downward trend, coming in fourth to Fox, MSNBC and sister net HLN. And Fox crushed everyone, with four million viewers compared to MSNBC’s 974,000. Those problems probably partly explain why TVNewser wrote about a shake-up... More

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The Broadcasters Foundation of America: 'People helping people,' says President Jim Thompson

With local advertising still in the doldrums, broadcasters have been hit as hard by this recession as anyone else, leaving many people who have served this industry well scrambling to pay their bills and stay afloat. That’s where the Broadcasters’ Foundation of America comes in. The foundation isn’t in the position to help every TV or radio employee that might find... More

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Fates & Fortunes Weekly Round-Up: Nov. 2, 2009

We at B&C were sad to learn of the loss of one of our own last week. Contributing Editor Brent Felgner , 57, passed away from cancer. While we’ve been celebrating our industry’s achievements at our own and the Cable Center’s Hall of Fame proceedings in recent weeks, Brent’s passing was a reminder to appreciate our families, friends and all of life’s... More