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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
TODAY'SNEWS

TLC Moving to L.A.
By Anne Becker
Discovery Communications is relocating operations for its TLC channel to Los Angeles, employees were told Monday. Some 50 staffers from the network’s programming, production, marketing, research and communications teams will be affected.

CBS News Hires Ross to Overhaul Early Show
By Marisa Guthrie
Shelley Ross, former executive producer of ABC's Good Morning America, will take the reins at Early Show, CBS’ struggling morning franchise, the network announced Monday.

MTV VMAs Ratings, Web Traffic Up
By Anne Becker
MTV's decision to move the Video Music Awards to Las Vegas and run the telecast for only one night seems to have paid off in the ratings, according to early numbers.

TV Industry Storms Hill, FCC Over White Spaces
By John Eggerton
Like a general pouring men into a break in the opponents line, broadcasters and their sports production and TV set manufacturer allies Monday planned to storm Capitol Hill and the FCC to oppose allowing mobile unlicensed devices to share the so-called white spaces between TV channels in the broadcast spectrum.

NBC Orders Single-Camera Comedy Script
By Ben Grossman
NBC ordered a script of comedy series Serial Frank, which would be an American adaptation of a French-Canadian series.

HBO Tops Creative Arts Emmys
By John Eggerton
HBO topped the Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night with 15 winners -- topped by a handful for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- followed by NBC with 12, CBS with nine and Cartoon Network with eight. Fox took home seven, PBS six and ABC tied with Showtime and Discovery Channel at four apiece.

CNN’s Cooper Is Iraq-Bound
By Alex Weprin
Beginning Monday, Anderson Cooper 360 will broadcast one week of live shows from Iraq.

Apple iPhone Sales Hit 1M
By Jon Hemingway
Apple’s iPhone sales hit 1 million Sunday, well ahead of the company’s forecast.

Fox News’ Hume Talks with Petraeus, Crocker
By Marisa Guthrie
Fresh from their lengthy testimony in front of Congress Monday about U.S. military progress in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus and ambassador Ryan Crocker will appear on Fox News Channel with Washington managing editor Brit Hume.

Bravo Green-Lights Reality Dance Series
By Alex Weprin
Bravo gave the green light to Step It Up, a dance reality competition.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

Philbin: Still the Excitable Boy
By P.J. Bednarski
Regis Philbin, at 76, still makes doing a live talk show look easy. And as Live begins its 20th season, Philbin and his executive producer, Michael Gelman, chatted with B&C's P.J. Bednarski about longevity and why Live works so well. Obviously, a lot of what you are today is based on what you learned a long time ago, when you were in L.
From the 09/10/2007 issue of Broadcasting & Cable

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