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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Thursday, April 3, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

UPFRONT & CENTER: NBC Emphasizes Collaboration with Advertisers at 'InFront'
By Marisa Guthrie
NBC stressed its advertiser and co-sponsor friendly attributes at the first of two presentations for the upfront selling season that begins in earnest in mid-May. Calling it his “dream schedule,” NBC Universal entertainment co-chief Ben Silverman revealed a 52-week schedule extending to the summer of 2009 that is designed to be light on re-runs – which advertisers have grown increasingly wary of – and heavy on buzz-worthy premieres throughout the year.

Fox's Beckman Stands Up for Moment of Truth
By Ben Grossman
When NBC's Ben Silverman said his network will not be doing a show like Fox’s Moment of Truth, Fox scheduling chief Preston Beckman wanted to know just one thing:“Was he strapped to a lie detector when he said it?”

CEA: DTV Will Have Minimal Environment Impact
By Glen Dickson
According to the Consumer Electronics Association, the digital-TV transition won’t have a dire impact on the environment from consumers junking their old analog-TV sets.

Sean Compton to Replace Marc Schacher at Tribune Broadcasting
By Paige Albiniak
Tribune Broadcasting’s Randy Michaels lured another radio-management star over to the Chicago-based company: Sean Compton, 34, departed Clear Channel Communications this week to become senior vice president of programming and entertainment for the 23-station group.

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Peabody Awards Winners Announced
By John Eggerton
The Peabody Awards were announced Wednesday, with the list of 35 recipients ranging from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report to Bob Woodruff's reporting on veterans wounded in Iraq, drawing on his own experiences recovering from a traumatic head wound while covering the war there.

What's Up? DOCSIS: Comcast Launches Higher-Speed Internet
By John Eggerton
One week after announcing that it would work with BitTorrent on ways to better manage Internet traffic on its network, Comcast announced Wednesday the first rollout of its higher-speed Internet service, which will launch Thursday in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market. The speedier service is based on the cable industry's DOCSIS 3.0 standard for data delivery.

NCTA Joins Comcast in Challenging FCC Cable Cap
By John Eggerton
And the legal hits against the FCC just keep on coming: The National Cable & Telecommunications Association Wednesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to let it join in Comcast's challenge to the FCC's decision to re-establish the cable horizontal-ownership limits.

Senate Commerce Committee Postpones Hearing on FCC-Blocking Bill
By John Eggerton
The Senate Commerce Committee postponed an April 2 hearing at which it had planned to consider a resolution to block the FCC's decision in December to loosen the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership ban.

UPFRONT & CENTER: New Shows, New Sponsors for Sundance Channel
By Anne Becker
Sundance Channel green-lit a music-focused talk show hosted by musician Elvis Costello and co-executive produced by Elton John.

Nielsen: Cable, Internet Benefited from WGA Strike
By John Eggerton
The writers’ strike didn't drive viewers away in droves, and the mix of new shows and repeats during that three-month stretch was not appreciably different from the same November-through-mid-February period the year before. But cable and the Internet were still beneficiaries of the work stoppage.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

New Ways to Win
By Paige Albiniak
You can just about bet on this: There will be some new faces winning Daytime Emmy Awards this June. Maybe that would have happened anyway, but it’s especially likely now because the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) this year is changing the nomination process and adding categories it never had before.
From the 03/31/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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