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Knock yourself out, Fox: Americans have vied over Christmas for 400 years H AVING SPENT almost two decades ballyhooing a non-existent 'War on Christmas', Fox News received the best present [...]

SHORTLY AFTER touching down in Texas on July 29th, Donald Trump gave a review of the in-flight entertainment on board Air Force One. "It is AMAZING watching @FoxNews how different [...]

JUDD APATOW THE GODFATHER IMPACT: For arguably the most important comedy auteur of the past decade, Apatow's typically prolific output had taken on a more leisurely pace over the past [...]

EVERYONE WANTS to do television now,' observed Adam Berkowitz, co-head of CAA's television department, of the current boom in scripted programming. As the fall TV season began, Berkowitz, 53, had [...]

WHAT ALWAYS FASCINATES when we begin compiling our annual 'Names to Know' list is the alchemic matter of timing: Who and what has seized a moment and will bring in [...]

Common Sense Media reported its newest honorees to receivethe Common Sense Seal for TV.According to a media release, the editorial team screened 235 series and specials that premiered between May [...]

It's OK for Catholics to criticize the pope. It's also OK for Catholic publications to criticize the pope. Lord knows, the National Catholic Reporter has, throughout its 57-year history and [...]

With ratings down again this primetime season, some are predicting a tough upfront market for broadcasters, who are facing new competition from the companies that created the NewFronts to sell [...]

On January 8, 2019, the much-awaited Project Blue Book premiered on the History television channel, which once actually showed history. It was expected to be both sensationalized and poorly acted. [...]

TURNER ENTERTAINMENT SALES POINT PERSON David Levy, president of Turuer Broadcasting Sales, president of Turner Sports PROGRAMMING New Hawthorne, Dark Blue, Wedding Bay (TNT); Neighbors From Hell (TBS) Returning The [...]

In the past year, several John Malone-controlled companies have been big stock market winners, and one sleeper in the Liberty universe seems to be the LiLAC Group (LILAK), which looks [...]

Of dishes and dissent Is the broadcaster an independent voice or a propaganda tool? WERE it not for Saudi intolerance, there might never have been Al Jazeera, the Arab world's [...]

2007 is a banner year for Ted Rogers as Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) takes in huge profits from its phone and wireless business and his personal wealth grows 67 percent to $7.6 billion. Rogers has a record of betting on technologies that get the best returns relative to the investment in the marketplace such as its use of the GSM network and its cable hybrid fib er-co-axial network.

Though it may seem as if television has always been a significant part of the American lifestyle, in reality, the medium has only been a resident in our homes for [...]

When PAX TV debuted as television's seventh broadcast network in 1998, some media analysts scoffed. The network's mission--to offer family-friendly programming free of sex, violence, and foul language--was eyed skeptically […]

IS IT DOWNLOADING OR UPLOADING? WHAT'S the contemporary term for what you do these days?' James Spader wonders aloud April 18, betraying his veteran status among younger castmates. Taking note [...]

Media consolidation had a big impact on BROADCASTING & CABLE's Top 25 Media Groups this year: Twenty positions were occupied by different companies last year. Just last week, Vivendi closed [...]

BROADCASTING & CABLE'S powers that be are topped by Time Warner, whose TV networks, cable systems, movie studio, books and magazines generated more than $20 billion last year. But look [...]

TNT's REMAKE OF THE CLASSIC 1980S PRIMETIME SOAP DALLAS WON'T DEBUT for another year--but as of last week, the show already had 117,260 fans on Facebook. No doubt, many of [...]

BOMBSHELL Director Jay Roach's $35 million film (Dec. 20) follows Roger Ailes' downfall at Fox News. It was greenlit and then dropped by cash-strapped Annapurna before Lionsgate picked it up. [...]

Nancy Dubuc isn't afraid to stick her neck out. She did, after all, launch unconventional tough-guy series like Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men on History, a network that was [...]

Parrot Analytics released data (tracked in September) showing HBO Now's 'Game of Thrones' generated 28.2 million 'demand expressions' in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, well more than [...]

The details of the characters of the different animated series for preschoolers, which are telecasted on the Disney Channel, are discussed. These series are related to both education and entertainment to the kids. The opinions of the parents over these programmes are also presented.

NBC's The Biggest Loser, which has $250,000 prize money, is making the contestants lose their weights to a large extent. Doctors warn that making the contestants work so hard can be very dangerous.

Overall, the impact of cable in the broadcasting arena remains undeniable. Season-to-date (Sept. 23, 2002, to May 18, 2003) and based on cable networks measured by Nielsen Media Research, ad-supported [...]