The former model and Playboy Playmate and reality TV star (E!’s The Anna Nicole Smith Show, 2002-04) was found dead in a hotel room in Hollywood, Fla. this afternoon. She was 39. Link: Chicago Tribune Link: Entertainment Tonight
In a move that will also likely mean the end of the Touchtone and Buena Vista names (as far as television is concerned,) The Walt Disney Co. has renamed its network TV unit ABC Television Studio and its Buena Vista Games video game unit to Disney Interactive Studios. This comes as Disney wants to streamline its media properties to fall […]
More on the Super Bowl ads, which became a super joke: – Phil Rosenthal wrote in the Tribune that the like the Bears, the ads fell short of goal, especially the CareerBuilder.com ad, which ditched the popular monkeys for workers in the jungle. (Personally, I wish they would put more effort into making a better connection between job seekers and […]
Interesting observations about the Super Bowl XLI ratings: – The game averaged a 42.6 rating and 64 share, according to Nielsen – the highest rated Super Bowl since 2000. The game itself pulled in 93.1 million viewers – the third most-watched television broadcast of all time – behind the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983 (The all-time champ with 105.9 […]
CBS Corp. announced today it is selling seven of its owned and operated stations to equity-firm Cerberus Capital Management for $185 million dollars. The deal includes CBS affiliates in Austin TX, Salt Lake City (and its satellite station), CW affiliates in Providence and West Palm Beach, along with two low-power stations in the latter market. Surprisingly, CBS did not sell […]
[This was originally posted Monday night, but was taken down because of technical and editing problems – but it’s back up now -enjoy! :0) ]A little footnote : This isn’t the most creative batch of commercials to come out this year. The effort -much like the game – was sloppy. On that note, here are the The T Dog Blog’s […]
Later today, We’ll post our top ten best Super Bowl commercials (along with video of the winner), but for now – here is the top ten worst (I suppose if Rex Grossman’s performance was an ad, it would easily top the list….) Here’s the top ten (we’ll do the Casey Kasem style from 10 -to-1 – in the best SB […]
Bears lose to the Colts 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI. A Chicago team loses in a Championship game for the first time since in 15 years (Blackhawks lost to Penguins in Game 4 of Stanley Cup Finals at Chicago Stadium.) Congrats to the Colts, and hats off to MVP Peyton Manning for playing a good game, and especially to head […]
Another one bites the dust: As expected, Warner Bros. has mercifully pulled the plug on the worthless Dr. Keith Ablow Show (And I use the term “Dr.” loosely here.) This bastard, who apparently got his PhD from one of those Sally Stuthers TV commercials (The earn your degree at home one, not the starving children spot), will lose his loser […]
Here how much has changed since the Bears last went to the Super Bowl: Number of broadcast networks: 1985: 3 Today: 7 Format of 94.7FM: 1985: WLS-FM (Rock/Top 40) Today: WZZN-FM (Oldies – the format and call letters of this frequency would change numerous times between 1985 and 2005)Cost of a candy bar: 1985: 39 cents Today: 89 cents Top […]
The newly formed Trifecta Entertainment has sold its new syndicated martial-arts series, UFC Wired (based on the popular Ultimate Fighting Championship franchise) to all Fox-owned MyNetworkTV stations with one notable exception – WPWR-TV here in Chicago. The deal coincides with the upstart network landing the rights to air International Fight League’s Total Impact ultimate fighting series, which airs in primetime […]
After failing to come with terms with YouTube, Viacom has ordered the popular video on-demand/upload site to remove all of its clips. YouTube is honoring the request, which will take effect immediately. That means no more clips of South Park, Daily Show or MTV content on YouTube. Tensions apparently increased after YouTube was bought by Google a few months ago, […]
MyNetworkTV is scrapping its nightly telenovela format and going with a more diversed schedule, beginning on March 8.
Here’s another clueless organization that just can’t seem to get it right: The Miss America Pageant tanked on CMT Monday Night, drawing just 2.4 million viwers, compared to 3 million viewers last year. Like the NHL did with its All-Star game this year, Miss America moved its failing pageant to cable in 2006, and moved it to a weeknight against […]
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