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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Tuesday, May 6, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

Saints Owner Grabs WVUE
By Michael Malone
Emmis Communications has agreed to sell WVUE New Orleans to Louisiana Media Company, whose principal owner is New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson. The purchase price for the Fox affiliate is $41 million.

Magical Elves, NBC Universal Strike First-Look Deal
By John Eggerton
NBC universal has signed a first-look deal with Magical Elves, the production company behind Top Chef and Project Runway on NBC U-owned Bravo. The deal means that the producers of Project Runway will not follow the show as it migrates to Lifetime this fall.

Nielsen: Product Placement On The Rise On Broadcast TV
By John Eggerton
Product placement is way up on broadcast TV, but essentially flat on cable. That's according to a new study of prime time plugs by Nielsen for the first quarter of 2008. But cable still far outpaces broadcast in the number of such plugs.

Ben Grossman's Left Coast Bias
News, analysis and the Hollywood perspective from B&C Los Angeles Bureau Chief Ben Grossman.

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New York To Boost Penalties For Content Piracy
By John Eggerton
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo held a press conference to say the state was going to ramp up its crack down on movie piracy, which he said costs the state $2.6 billion and thousands of jobs.

Survey: Short Form, Multiplatform Content Will Drive Growth
By John Eggerton
Almost two thirds of media executives (63%) polled by Accenture say that the biggest driver of revenue growth over the next five years will be putting content on multiple screens, with short-form content picked as the biggest growth area.

MSNBC Making News Interactive
By John Eggerton
MSNBC is taking news deeper into the interactive gaming world of the Web to reach surfers where they live and play.

Lindsay Lohan Booked for Ugly Betty
By Alex Weprin
Perhaps taking a cue from Britney Spears’ successful appearance on How I Met Your Mother, actress Lindsay Lohan will appear on ABC’s Ugly Betty as part of a six-episode story arc.

John McCain Returning to The Daily Show
By Alex Weprin
Senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain (R-Ariz.), already the most frequent guest in the show’s history, will make his 13th appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Wednesday.

NBC News Launches iCue
By John Eggerton
NBC News has launched a free online community, icue.com, that combines games, video and discussion in what NBC says is “a fun and safe environment.”

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

HD Hits the Streets
By Glen Dickson
High-definition studio cameras have been selling well for years, as stations began buying them as a way to future-proof their operations in advance of launching HD newscasts. But cameras for field production for news and other reality programming have lagged behind. Not only were they costly, but there were technical issues with transmitting HD content from the site of a news story and editing ...
From the 05/05/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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