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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Tuesday, March 11, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

Tucker Out, David Gregory In at MSNBC
By Alex Weprin
MSNBC canceled Tucker, its Monday-Friday 6 p.m. show, NBC confirmed. In its place, the cable network will debut Race for the White House with David Gregory, a daily look at the latest presidential-election news anchored by NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory.

Bravo's Amy Introcaso-Davis Moves to Oxygen
By Anne Becker
Bravo's Amy Introcaso-Davis was named to a senior programming role at sister NBC Universal cable network Oxygen.

Flood of Filings Challenges FCC’s Cross-Ownership Decision
By John Eggerton
The legal floodgates opened in the wake of the FCC’s Dec. 18 decision to loosen the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban.

AFTRA Reaches Tentative Deal with Producers
By John Eggerton
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists reached a tentative agreement with producers and the networks on a new contract.

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Showtime Renews The L Word
By John Eggerton
Showtime picked up drama The L Word for a sixth and what it said will be its final season.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer Faces Prostitution-Ring Allegations
By John Eggerton
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer -- a familiar figure to media companies from payola investigations and consent decrees he struck with a number of them as the state’s attorney general -- apologized Monday to his family and the public for violating their trust and his own sense of right and wrong, but he did not specifically address allegations by The New York Times that he was involved in a prostitution ring.

OpenTV Confirms Ben Bennett as CEO
By Glen Dickson
Set-top software supplier OpenTV announced that Ben Bennett, who has served as acting CEO and chief operating officer since Alan Guggenheim stepped down as CEO last August, was officially appointed CEO by the company's board.

Regis Philbin to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Daytime Emmys
By John Eggerton & Paige Albiniak
Regis Philbin, co-host of Live with Regis & Kelly and a 40-year TV veteran, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards June 20 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

NBC Goes HD in Miami
By Glen Dickson
NBC Universal’s two stations in Miami, NBC affiliate WTVJ and Telemundo affiliate WSCV, both launched HD newscasts, making them the first in the Miami market to do so.

Glenn Haygood Named President/GM of WLKY-TV Louisville, Ky.
By John Eggerton & Michael Malone
Hearst-Argyle Television named Glenn Haygood president and general manager of WLKY-TV Louisville, Ky.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

Reporters Live Their Campaigns
By Marisa Guthrie
For candidates, the campaign trail is like a runaway train, moving in fits and starts, and ultimately powered, they hope, by swift momentum. But for the off-air embedded network reporters who tag along, many of whom have been covering their respective candidates full time since October, the trail is the ride of their lives, and they must hold on for dear life.
From the 03/10/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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