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In Focus.(MagicDust Television and Litton Entertainment)
By Jim Benson Game Delays Jim Benson Syndicators gear up to combat the Olympics With a record 416 hours of Winter Olympics coverage across multiple ...
Outing Insider.(promotion of television show)(Brief Article)
Until Pat O Briens contract is up with NBC and Access Hollywood, Paramount can't use him to promote its new access show, The Insider. So Paramount and ad agency Colby International came up with a novel promo that lets viewers know he's coming, yet ...
Syndicators are still bullish on off-net.(Special report: 2004 NATPE Buyers Guide)
The off-net pipeline continues to thin, with only five shows coming to syndication next fall. Even so, several syndicators will be spending much of their time at NATPE focusing on their off-net sales, including NBC Enterprises with Fear Factor for fall 2004, King World with the ...
Strong Inside moves.(entertainment strip)
King World's Inside Edition, with anchor Deborah Norville, started its 16th season with good news. In the first two weeks, the newsmagazine saw a 13% increase in its average national household rating to a 3.4 and a 17% increase in its adults 18-49 rating to a 1.4...
Ratings take a holiday. (Syndie Insider).(Brief Article)
Syndicators struggled during the July Fourth weekend with people out picnicking and watching fireworks. The number of households watching daytime TV plunged week to week by an average 555,000 homes, to the lowest viewing level of the season. Making things even tougher for syndies were preemptions...
Paramount developing Cojocaru show. (Syndie Insider).(Brief Article)
Paramount Domestic Television has hired Steven Cojocaru--weekly contributor to NBC's Today show, style correspondent for NBC Enterprises' Access Hollywood and West Coast style editor for People magazine-as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. Paramount Domestic Television has hired Steven Cojocaru--weekly contributor to NBC's Today...
Cold weather, hot ratings. (Sweeps).(bad weather helps increase ratings for syndicators)(Brief Article)
Cold weather helped syndicators for the week ended Jan. 26, as people stayed indoors to avoid the freeze that hit the eastern half of the U.S., and stayed at home to keep warm on Martin Luther King Day. As a result, TV usage levels and ratings shot...
Good Day Live starts soft. (Ratings).(ratings for various syndicated shows)
Twentieth Television's new morning talk show Good Day Live didn't exactly set the world on fire with its national launch last week after rolling out slowly over the past several months. The show opened on 140 stations covering 89% of the count...
Syndicators roll out new talkers, formats. (Special Report: NATPE Buyers Guide).
After Dr. Phil showed in 2002 that smash hits still can happen on daytime TV, syndicators will escort several famous names to the sunlight hours in 2003 hoping it can happen again. Warner Bros. Domestic Television is developing a talk show for...
Paramount develops mystery, money.("Life Moments" downgraded to late night)
With Paramount's reality strip Life Moments on life support after 10 NBC owned-and-operated stations decided to cancel or downgrade it to late night next week, the syndicator is looking ahead with weekend hour Unexplained Mysteries in development f With Paramount's reality strip Life Moments...
Nose jobs are magic for ET Weekend. (Syndie Insider).(syndicated television ratings)(Brief Article)
The week ended Nov. 10 was a good one for syndicated weekend shows, particularly Paramount's ET Weekend: The nostalgia fest, focused on the history of celebrity plastic surgery, scored a 4.0. That's the show's highest rating since early April, an increase of 18% week-to-week and 11%...
Year of the woman makes a statement; Programming options take a decidedly feminine tack; blame 'Buffy' and 'Ally'.
Mix a bit of Sarah Michelle Gellar's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Jessica Alba's "Dark Angel" and Calista Flockhart's "Ally McBeal," and that's the prescription for a bevy of women-empowered series in development for the TV networks' 2001-02 season prime-time lineups. * With women presumably gaining...
No more Pyrrhic victories.(NBC renews Frasier agreement)(Brief Article)
NBC retains Frasier, but only after months of Viacom-Paramount-CBS angst NBC's just-completed negotiations for Frasier put the spotlight on the new way of doing business in consolidation-happy Hollywood. But the network never wants to go thro NBC retains...
A bidding stand-off.
New network homes for Buffy, Frasier, and Dharma & Greg? A high-priced game of Russian roulette, television style, may cause three series--Frasier, Dharma & Greg and Buffy the Vampire Slayer--to move to new networks next fall, all evidence of the power of...
Back from reality New series face long odds in game of TV 'Survivor'.(Time Out!)
How are you going to keep them down on the TV farm once they've seen reality? That's the dilemma facing broadcast TV executives this season. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," "Survivor" and even "Big Brother," for all its faults, have established so-called ...
Leeza with an 'S,' as in syndication.
Paramount sells syndicated version of one-time NBC talker in five top markets Paramount Domestic Television executives are rapidly transforming Leeza from a network talk show into a syndicated program for next fall. In less than six weeks in...
'Leeza' heads to first-run.
Paramount Domestic Television executives are bringing Leeza into first-run syndication for fall 1999 after NBC executives decided late last week not to renew the talk show after a six-season network run. Sources say NBC executives are looking to ad Paramount Domestic Television executives are...
'Lateline' moves to New York
Paramount' s newsroom comedy Lateline is moving production from Los Angeles to New York as producers Al Franken and John Markus begin work on a 13-episode commitment from NBC. "Al and ... Paramount' s newsroom comedy Lateline is moving production from Los Angeles to New York...
Raise for 'Frasier'
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer's salary will rise 40%, to more than $400,000 per episode, as part of a deal with Paramount Television that will keep his production company with the studio through the end of the century, sources say. Grammer's deal also includes an undisclosed piece...
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer.(gets salary hike)(Brief Article)
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer's salary will rise 40%, to more than $400,000 per episode, as part of a deal with Paramount Television that will keep his production company with the studio through the end of the century, sources say. Grammer's deal also Frasier star Kelsey...
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