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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Thursday, April 10, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

HBO Names Sue Naegle Head of Series Programming
By Anne Becker
HBO officially named Sue Naegle as its new president of HBO Entertainment Wednesday afternoon. Naegle, the former TV chief at United Talent Agency, replaces Carolyn Strauss as the premium cable network's top series-programming executive, a position Strauss left last month.

Report: Katie Couric, CBS News to Part Ways Before Contract Expires
By Alex Weprin
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric is likely to part ways with CBS News well before her contract with the network expires in 2011, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, Couric could leave as early as next year, following the presidential inauguration in January.

Bobcats Move Could Boost Time Warner Cable’s Arbitration Case
By John Eggerton
The move of Carolina Bobcats National Basketball Association games off Time Warner Cable's News 14 Carolina channel in a complicated broadcast-rights/arena-naming deal among the cable operator, FSN South and the team could provide Time Warner with some ammunition in its ongoing carriage dispute with Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.

Scalia Remains Adamant Against Cameras During Court Proceedings
By John Eggerton
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience of Virginia high-schoolers Wednesday that he still opposes TV cameras in the Supreme Court because they would provided a distorted picture of the process. He didn't have anything nice to say about TV cameras in criminal trials, either.

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UPFRONT & CENTER: Planet Green Sets Launch Date, Programming Slate
By Alex Weprin
Planet Green, Discovery Communications’ new green lifestyle channel, will launch June 4 at 6 p.m., Discovery announced. The company also unveiled the launch lineup for the network.

UPFRONT & CENTER: TLC Shifts Scheduling Strategy, Unveils Slate
By Alex Weprin
TLC is reworking its scheduling strategy, giving each night of the week a “theme,” with programming that fits within that theme. The network also unveiled its 2008-09 programming lineup.

Discovery Channel, BBC Partner on Frozen Planet
By Alex Weprin
Discovery Channel and the British Broadcasting Corp. are following up on the hugely successful Planet Earth miniseries by once again teaming up on a large-scale documentary miniseries, Frozen Planet.

ACA Chairman: HDTV Exemption Gets to Root of Capacity Issue
By John Eggerton
American Cable Association Chairman Patrick Knorr tells C-SPAN that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's proposal to exempt smaller cable operators from a 2001 HDTV TV station carriage obligation gets to the root of the capacity issues that prompted ACA to seek a waiver of the FCC's September 2007 dual-carriage requirement.

KHBS, KHOG Offer The CW on Digital Channel
By Michael Malone
Hearst-Argyle Television Arkansas stations KHBS Fort Smith and KHOG Fayetteville will debut The CW on their digital channels starting April 28.

Ad Industry Urges Moderation in Online-Marketing Curbs
By Robert Marich
A coalition of advertising industry groups cautioned the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday that pressing for too stringent industry self-regulation of behavioral advertising practices could backfire and ultimately harm consumers.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

Transforming Tribune
By Paige Albiniak
Tribune Co. is wooing some of TV and radio's best business builders with the promise that they'll have the opportunity to revolutionize the company. Tribune Chairman and CEO Sam Zell, who made the deal for the company a year ago but only took it over three months ago, is rapidly changing the place. Zell and Randy Michaels, Tribune's executive VP who heads broadcasting and interactive, are tryin...
From the 04/07/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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