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IT'S NOTA FUNTIME to be an independent cable and satellite TV network, given the skyrocketing supply of programming and consolidation among multichannel video programming distributors. Consider RFD-TV. The network that [...]

Data center managers are under the gun. Companies realize that to compete in the global marketplace, they need a strong data center to back them up. This puts the role [...]

If it hasn't sunk in, you're thick or, possibly, racist. Either way, you've blown a huge opportunity: America is becoming a Latin nation. That's the headline of the 2010 U.S. [...]

Media buyers traditionally have taken a hypercritical view of the broadcast upfront ritual, quibbling about matters trivial (everything from the length of the networks' presentations to the shrimp cocktail at [...]

Media buyers traditionally have taken a hypercritical view of the broadcast upfront ritual, quibbling about matters trivial (everything from the length of the networks' presentations to the shrimp cocktail at [...]

REVEILLE, THE INDEPENDENT television production/distribution company founded by Ben Silverman (now NBC entertainment chief) six years ago, and recently sold by him to Elisabeth Murdoch for $125 million, is at [...]

Network Despite a laundry list of potentially negative influences, the broadcast networks this upfront season have bested themselves yet again, raking in an eye-popping $9.23 billion, just north of last [...]

UNIVISION CEO JOE UVA is the antithesis of his predecessor Jerry Perenchio. While no one would ever describe Uva as an 'over-the-top' personality, his hands-on approach and openness with his [...]

FOR THE PAST DECADE OR SO, the buzzword used to describe the divorce between the media-buying process and traditional, fullservice advertising agencies has been 'unbundling.' Tired of being the last [...]

Much like the battle for supremacy in the rental-car business, where the slogan of second-place Avis is 'We Try Harder,' Hispanic TV network Telemundo has been striving mightily over the [...]

THE TITLE OF ONE of the most anticipated new prime-time series this fall, the ABC dramedy Big Shots, could describe broadcast network sales executives, who have just wrapped an upfront [...]

JUST ONE MONTH AFTER being hired by then Fox Broadcasting president Jamie Kellner as head of the television network's advertising sales in the spring of 1989, Jon Nesvig was participating, [...]

BACK IN 1999, WHEN GENERAL ELECTRIC CHAIRMAN Jack Welch and NBC chairman Bob Wright decided to move over GE Plastics division CFO Jay Ireland to run the NBC TV stations [...]

WHEN THE SOON-TO-BE THREE-YEAR-OLD NFL NETWORK begins televising regular-season National Football League games for the first time on Thanksgiving night, it will have an impressive bevy of big-name advertisers in [...]

THREE MINUTES INTO AN INTERVIEW with Steve McPherson in his Burbank office, the ABC Entertainment president pulls out a mini-album of pictures of his nine-month old daughter, Macie. A short [...]

JUST A FEW WEEKS INTO HIS NEW JOB overseeing all of ESPN and ABC Sports content, John Skipper last October sent a message to his colleagues that he was indeed [...]

THE LOBBY AT THE OMNI HOTEL in Jacksonville, Fla., early on a Friday morning just two days before Super Bowl XXXIX is bustling with fans milling about amidst the souvenir [...]

The deployment of high-definition television continues to be the foremost concern of broadcasters. Though more national programming is being made in HD and more stations are passing it through (even [...]

In 1999, when the Walt Disney Co. was searching for the right executive to oversee the new sports sales unit that was being formed to encompass ABC Sports and ESPN [...]

Back in October of 1991, National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern got his first exposure to high-definition television while attending a pair of season-opener NBA games in Tokyo, long before [...]

ALTHOUGH SKEPTICS OF HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION COULD STILL BE FOUND SCATTERED among the 95,000 attendees of last week's National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, it appears the industry's transition [...]

Here's the good news: When compared with 1992, the median age of a person working in an advertising agency media department has increased by four years, to 33.5, and has [...]

When a review copy of It's Alive: How America's Oldest Newspaper Cheated Death and Why It Matters arrived at our office, I offered out loud that it looked like a [...]

The Spanish-language news media in the U.S. has been covering the 2012 Republican presidential primaries with greater breadth than ever before, as both the media outlets and the GOP hopefuls [...]

SINGLE-SPORT CABLE NETWORKS ARE still relatively young compared to the three-decade-old ESPN and the mass-audience broadcast networks that televise live sports. But they have become a vital part of sports [...]

Until AMC premiered its first original drama series, Mad Men, in 2007, the cable channel was known mostly for airing classic theatrical movies from years past, and was barely on [...]

ABC is steaming into the 2010-11 upfront at full sail, pennants fluttering from the mastheads and a new captain at the ad sales helm. And while this spring will mark [...]

Fox Sports chairman David Hill believes the Internet is following the same evolutionary pattern as television. 'When TV was in its infancy, it was basically run by the engineers,' says [...]

The daytime soap operas might be losing their bubbles in the weeks ahead as networks resort to episodes not penned by WGA writers. The guild, which has been on strike [...]

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN TELEVISION marketplace hype and reality is a skill Rino Scanzoni has honed for nearly three decades. But over the past few years, making that distinction has become a [...]

WITH COMMERCIAL RATINGS looming as the new currency media agencies will use to buy television spots--perhaps as early as this May's television upfront, on a limited basis--the broadcast and cable [...]

BILL KOENIGSBERG ASPIRED TO BE a professional tennis player, but injuries while playing at the University of Miami forced him to give up the sport. Instead, he immersed himself in [...]

NEXT TO DENNIS Donlin, Hercules' job doesn't seem all that hard. In July of 2000, Donlin--then an executive vp and managing director for Starcom MediaVest, overseeing planning on General Motors' [...]

THERE WAS A TIME not too long ago when the broadcast networks hung up a big 'Gone Fishin'' sign after the May sweeps and scheduled a bunch of reruns until [...]

With a potential $500 million expected to be redistributed among the six major broadcast networks--based on NBC's prime-time ratings nosedive and ABC's bump upward--during this year's upfront buying season, the [...]

It's no secret the clout of the media agency in the client/agency/media relationship has been on the rise for years, but recent moves by several major media shops have only [...]

IT'S NO SECRET THE CLOUT of the media agency in the client/agency/media relationship has been on the rise for years, but recent moves by several major media shops have only [...]

The Big Four broadcast networks--CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC--cumulatively, have had a much better season than they have been credited for, says Jeff Zucker, president of NBC Entertainment, News and [...]

IRWIN GOTLIEB LOVES TELEVISION, and he's not afraid to admit it. In fact, one of the downsides of his 9-month-old post as CEO of newly created Group M. where he [...]

Perhaps it was because the war had been building up for some time, but by the end of last week, the television business--the Big Four broadcast networks, cable networks and [...]

The battle for prime-time supremacy between NBC and CBS is expected to intensify this season. While most agency media execs expect NBC to again prevail in the ratings race to [...]

In an exclusive survey conducted by Mediaweek and Spencer Stuart, marketing and media buying executives identify how media companies have adapted to selling in a harsher economic climate. No one [...]

AS SMARTPHONES proliferate and more consumers flock to the internet, a statistic known as Digital Share of Voice (DSOV) is becoming more important to brands. While many of top brands [...]

Imagine Washington insiders-often possessed of unrestrained regulatory fervor--coming off as true American heroes, at least in the eves of broadcasters. A major station-group executive last week predicted that will happen, [...]

Dallas-based A.H. Belo Corp. believes it will be a competitive necessity to offer viewers high-definition TV broadcasts via the highest-quality format possible. That's why the company is committed to spending [...]

Former Sawyer-Ferguson-Walker Board Chmn. and Pres. Roy Blackfield is suing his former newspaper representative firm and Berkeley Acquisition Corp., the company that bought Sawyer in May, 1995, for failure to pay him his supplemental pension allotments and the $273,351 balance owed from the $1.5 million worth of stocks he sold them. Although Berkeley maintains that it is not liable for any agreements that Blackfield had with Sawyer, Blackfield claims to have an official letter that states that Berkeley agreed to assume all of Sawyer's debts., RETIRED SAWYER Ferguson Walker president and board chairman Roy Blackfield has quietly fled suit in U.S. District Court against his former employer and the company's new owner, Berkeley Acquisition Corp., [...]

The consensus at the Nexpo '94 trade show was that prepress equipment suppliers are not meeting the needs of newspaper customers. The factors responsible include heavy pressure to discount, a surfeit of low-price proprietary products and costly overcustomization. Vendors are responding to these challenges by developing multi-system compatible products and entering into alliances with system integrators., THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE of prepress technology and its effect on the newspaper industry were important enough to draw hundreds of newspaper executives to a 10 a.m. Sunday general session to [...]

ABC is steaming into the 2010-11 upfront at full sail, pennants fluttering from the mastheads and a new captain at the ad sales helm. And while this spring will mark [...]