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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Monday, April 21, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

Viacom, MGM, Lionsgate to Launch New Premium Channel
By B&C Staff
Viacom and its Paramount Pictures unit formed a joint venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate on a new premium movie channel for television and video-on-demand service. The new channel -- which will have access to theatrical titles from Paramount, Paramount Vantage, MGM, United Artists and Lionsgate (including Paramount's forthcoming Iron Man, left) -- will launch in the fall of 2009.

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment Tonight, The Insider Going HD
By Paige Albiniak
CBS’ Entertainment Tonight and The Insider will make the leap to HD come September, making them the first two entertainment newsmagazines to announce such a move.

Moonves: Katie Is Our Anchor for the Foreseeable Future
By Marisa Guthrie
CBS CEO Leslie Moonves made an appearance in the CBS newsroom Friday afternoon to reiterate the company's commitment to CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric.

NAB 2008: The Last Analog NAB
By Glen Dickson
For broadcasters and vendors that have been plotting their digital futures for more than one decade at National Association of Broadcasters shows, sometime during last week’s convention, they must have stopped and observed, “Wow. This is the last analog NAB.”

Check out B&C’s NAB SHOWCASE
Complete coverage of the 2008 NAB Show -- before, during and after -- with breaking news and analysis, video updates from the floor and more.

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Moyers Gets Interview with Obama's Former Pastor
By John Eggerton
PBS' Bill Moyers Journal snagged an interview with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to the United Church of Christ Office of Communications.

Telecom Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gives Martin Good Grade
By John Eggerton
House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee vice chairman Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) conceded that the committee has concerns about how the FCC does its job but said he is reserving judgment on whether information at the FCC is being "filtered" so that "not all of the commissioners get all the information" and gave FCC chairman Kevin Martin a pretty good grade overall.

COVER STORY: Girl Power!
By Claire Atkinson
Women rule -- at least in the eye of the camera. At the box office, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds grossed $65.1 million domestically, and Oscar-honored teen-pregnancy movie Juno, which cost a low-budget $7.5 million to make, took in a blockbuster $143 million domestically for Fox Searchlight. Some of the Web’s hottest sites at the moment include female-oriented and female-run sites. But no medium has fallen for females quite like the TV screen has lately.

John Hockenberry Spreads Multiplatform Message
By Marisa Guthrie
John Hockenberry has logged his time navigating the unpredictable media landscape. On April 28, Hockenberry, a three-time Peabody Award winner, returns to public radio with a new morning drive-time news program called The Takeaway, which he hopes will offer a new take on our 21st-century global dialogue. Hockenberry spoke with B&C’s Marisa Guthrie about the state of the media, his transition back to radio and what he learned from current events at CBS News.

Political TV Ads Uneven, Back-Loaded
By Robert Marich
All ships are not rising with the tide of political TV advertising. The reason: Election-cycle spending is uneven so far. The entire TV medium is still in line to be awash with $3 billion in 2008 political advertising, up from $2.4 billion in 2006 and $1.7 billion in 2004, according to political-ad-spend researcher TNS CMAG.

CNN.com Offers News You Can Wear
By Alex Weprin
Apparently not content to offer news you can use, CNN is peddling news you can wear.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

Bull Durham's Curve Ball
By David Bianculli
Tim Robbins handed me his speech. “Tell me what you think,” he said. And there I was, thrust into a difficult position at the very last minute. We were backstage in the green room at the NAB conference, where Robbins was scheduled to give the opening keynote address, after which we were supposed to do a Q&A, with me as moderator.
From the 04/21/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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