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ENCORE's production report includes all known features and television drama and non-drama television programs which have a network presale. Projects in the planning stage appear once only and the listing [...]

1993 Jan. 4 Jamie Kellner resigns as president and chief operating officer of Fox Broadcasting Co. Jan. 5 Twentieth Television chairman Lucie Salhany is named chairman of Fox, becoming the [...]

Since the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic first became widely apparent on March 11--when, within a single hour, Tom Hanks tweeted that he had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, [...]

The way the network-programming game works, 'The King of Queens' really shouldn't have gotten on the air, much less lasted to celebrate its 100th episode tonight. Even the show's co-creator, [...]

TV program sellers and buyers from around the world will be raking a much-needed compass reading at next week's annual Los Angeles Screenings as the global TV industry heads deep [...]

'Fortune favors the brave,' Rupert Murdoch reportedly once told a weary Fox Broadcasting Co. executive during the formative years of the network, when few on the outside believed that the [...]

From a lack of star power to a 14-hour time difference, the Pyeongchang Games present a host of challenges, but with a new digital strategy and nationwide live broadcasts (a [...]

The BBC - still flying the flag for public service broadcasting Formative years The British Broadcasting Corporation we know and (mostly) love dates back to 1926 and a remarkable piece [...]

Flextech is a UK television company which runs, owns and supplies services forr 11 cable TV channels. Roger Luard is the managing director of Flextech and is an accountant who sold the company's non-performing assets when he took over. He invested in The Children's Channel in 1989, and took over the cable channels of its parent, Tele-Communications Inc., in 1993. Flextech aims for capital growth, like the parent company, and Flextech's share price has performed well.

Creature is fast making a name for itself in theatre. This is what differentiates the agency from its rivals in adland, Dan Shute and Ed Warren tell James Swift. Pity [...]

Do advertisers lose out in the trading dispute between the media group and the broadcaster, Arif Durrani asks. Tensions between Omnicom and Channel 5 ratcheted up last week when the [...]

In January 1986, after years of negotiations with Rupert Murdoch, the printers that serviced his British newspapers went on strike after Murdoch demanded that they sign a new contract in [...]

Australian production companies reaped the dividends of a notable increase in offshore television commercial production during the first quarter of 2005. The welcome upturn in this crucial area of the [...]

It would take nerves of steel to bet on the 3.4bn [pounds sterling] (US$5.65bn) merger of the UK's two big ITV broadcasters Granada and Carlton. For those working in the [...]

WHAT THEY DID - Smedley and Hackforth-Jones persuaded ITV to let them run a powerful stunt in an episode of Loose Women to raise awareness of the support that Refuge [...]

In hindsight, there were a lot of things the Fox network might have, even should have, done differently in 1986 and '87, when a small band of executives were trying [...]

ITV is preparing for a bumper Christmas period as brands and agencies look set to pay up to pounds 200,000 for a spot during the final of The X Factor. [...]

AUSTRALIA Maureen Plavsic, managing director of broadcast television, the Seven Network Plavsic, 45, is the first woman to head an Australian commercial-TV network. She was appointed managing director more than [...]

Why hasn't Colbert clicked? Why is Trevor Noah's audience older than Jon Stewart's? The inspired silliness of NBC's king became everything in a genre where YouTube hits are as relevant [...]

Did it prove the winner in the stand-off with Group M, Alasdair Reid asks. Who blinked first? Crudely, for many in the marketplace, that's what the question boils down to. [...]

The family-owned Craig Broadcast Systems based in Brandon, Manitoba has won a television license that will cover the whole of Alberta. The independent broadcasting company is also planning to penetrate the expansive cable television market in Southern Ontario that will reach 60% of English-speaking Canada. Furthermore, Craig plans to offer combined TV, radio, Internet and telephone services., One 'very independent' family-owned broadcasting company in Brandon, Manitoba is about to get bigger - a lot bigger. When Craig Broadcast Systems won a lucrative Alberta television licence before the [...]

StatOil's Daily Telegraph coverwrap You might think that the StatOil media account is hardly one to set the pulses racing but UM London's early work for the advertiser is proving [...]

ITV dropped three episodes of Coronation Street last week due to a plotline featuring a gun-wielding character. The broadcaster, which dropped episodes last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, said that events [...]

ON MAY 28, NBC WILL JUMP ON THE BINGE-viewing bandwagon, releasing the entire 13-episode first season of Aquarius online while also airing the David Duchovny period drama each week on [...]

'I'm Perplexed and Bewildered of Long Acre. C4 have said they are not interested in engagement and I just find that surprising.' - Five's chair and chief executive, Dawn Airey, [...]

Television news producers often amass great power and rise to high corporate rank. Roone Arledge at ABC and Roger Ailes at Fox News remade TV news and became pivotal forces [...]

ITV has not secured a sponsor for its showcase of Christmas programming, claiming that the number of individual programmes that it plans to run precluded a single sponsorship deal. The [...]

The remaining partners in the 4Digital radio consortium have held emergency talks after the majority shareholder Channel 4, led by its chief executive, Andy Duncan, abandoned digital radio on cost [...]

It has been four years since General Electric bought Universal Studios. Has the acquisition worked? The answer, by and large, is yes. From GE's point of view, studio chief Ron [...]

Nickelodeon UK's number one rating pre-school TV channel, Nick Jr, has chosen experiential agency Sledge to produce its fourth annual Jump Up event. Thousands of parents and children will be [...]

Channel 4 has unveiled a classified ads portal for overseas property on the back of its series A Place in the Sun. The broadcaster has partnered with publishing and exhibition [...]

Sky is revamping its portfolio of gaming brands, including Sky Bet, Sky Bingo, Sky Vegas and Sky Poker. The fresh identities will incorporate the Sky logo and are intended to [...]

ITV2 has won the broadcast TV rights from Channel 4 to screen the Isle of Wight music festival in June. The channel will broadcast live coverage of the event across [...]

Popular British shows such as Top Gear and Ashes to Ashes are finding new life all over the world. Maria Esposito investigates. Detective Inspector Gene Hunt is a peculiarly British [...]

A competitive streak and the ability to grab audience share are vital in a programming role at ITV. 1997... ITV had originally been designed as a federation of regional companies [...]

As with Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach, ITV's recently conceived post-modern soap experiment, there's more intrigue behind the scenes at ITV right now than in the on-screen drama. While the [...]

The Seven Network, the Australian TV broadcaster, has made a stinging attack on the board of West Australian Newspapers, of which it is the largest shareholder. Kerry Stokes, the Seven [...]

Print could be about to hit the TV screen, in a Channel 4 series aimed at helping companies get the most out of their business. Independent TV production company Tigress [...]

It is a brave move to bring back News at Ten with its original anchor man. Clearly a favourite among many, Sir Trevor McDonald evokes memories of an era in [...]

The Nine Network, Australia's troubled TV station, has failed to reverse its ratings slump over the summer period. It dropped more than 4 per cent of total viewers compared with [...]

Friends Reunited, the social networking site owned by ITV, is set to undergo a name change as part of a strategic overhaul in response to growing pressure from rivals. ITV [...]