I’m back…. Syndication Watch: In what qualifies to be the kiss of death of any new show, NBC Universal’s new Megan Mulually talk show has been downgraded at NBC-owned KNBC-TV in Los Angeles yesterday. The program, which features the former Will & Grace star, lost its key 4pm time slot and has been moved to noon. A local newscast which […]
Remember MyNetworkTV? That groovy new network that all the square cats are watching? No? Neither does anybody else! With Maureen Ryan of the Trib is busy slamming the CW for their moves, and Marc Berman of Mediaweek ignoring it all together, Advertising Age apparently remembers there’s a MNT: http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=112543 [subscription required] I have also found that here in Chicago (and […]
With declining audiences for sporting events (particularly baseball) on broadcast TV, a move to cable was bound to happen: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6382167.html?display=Breaking+News This is on top of a deal that gives Turner exclusive rights to the divisional playoff series beginning next year and Sunday afternoon games in 2008.
It was not a good weekend for sports analysts: http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/cat_index_31.asp http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2628184 Fox fired Steve Lyons for insensitive comments regarding fellow analyst (now Cubs manager) Lou Pinella and his use of Spanish during Game 3 of the ALCS Friday night, while Comcast SportsSouth (not related to Comcast SportsNet) canned former Cane Lamar Thomas for thoughtless comments during that big brawl in […]
As expected, ABC picks up Ugly Betty for a full season: (Way to go, ABC!) http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=10893 Although the show is losing to the increasingly bland Survivor in the key adult 18-49 demographic, it is beating the reality show in total viewers and households. (This is what happens when you divide the tribes by race and merge the teams too early. […]
Ripped from the headlines: http://www.nypost.com/seven/10122006/tv/duke_and_cover_tv_adam_buckman.htm
Just wondering… Does the Chicago Tribune really need an Internet critic? Given the fact that the guy writing the column is a complete, utter moron: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology_internetcritic/ Another waste of space in the Tribune’s Tempo section.
I guess it snowed here in Chicago yesterday for a reason: http://www.wlit.com/main.html Look at this way… Soon, we won’t have to put up with any more of those f****n’ Flashback Weekends for awhile.
Monique Calhoun, who was eliminated on America’s Next Top Model last week, would fit right in working for either Rod Blagojevich’s or Judy Baar Topinka’s gubernatorial campaigns: http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Interviews-Features/Article/ default.aspx?posting={716E5AB9-09A1-409E-8DB5-764C2F4411E9} If Monique ran for governor, this loser would probably gather more votes than those other two losers. (P.S. I hope Monique’s a Cub fan…)
There are 1.6 billion reasons why Google’s buying YouTube (and none of them involve T.O.): Chicago Tribune:http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-google-youtube,1,1720320.story?coll=chi-news-hed Broadcasting & Cablehttp://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6379481.html Television Week:http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=10873 Mediaweek:http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003223465
If you read Robert Feder’s column yesterday, or logged on to radio-related message boards on the Internet, you probably know by now that Cara Carriveau was fired from WLUP-FM (97.9), “The Loop” — all because she wrote a letter to Mr. Feder decrying the state of radio in Chicago. (The story actually broke last night in the Chicago Tribune courtesy […]
He Gone! The first cancellation of the season…. Link: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6378212.html?display=Breaking+News (Fixed the link.)
Could this be the new fall season’s worst sitcom? (Hey, who can tell? They’re so many of them….) When you think of The Game, you either think of the rapper associated with 50 Cent or the WWE wrestler associated with DX. According to the Trib’s Maureen Ryan and Media Life Magazine, we may not have a trifecta here…Mo Ryan’s review […]
http://www.cbscorporation.com/Roger King, who became rich in the 1980’s as the little company that could (Thanks to he and his brother Michael discovering Oprah Winfrey and acquiring the syndicated rights to “Wheel of Fourtune” and “Jeporady!”), will head the new CBS Television Distribution Group. The sales people will be selling CBS Paramount and King World syndicated product so they won’t have […]
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