Remembering Roger King
Tributes are pouring in from all over the industry, from television executives to television personalities, on Roger King and what he meant to the business.
Roger King dies
The television community is mourning the death of Roger King, a television legend who helped bring the once-dormant syndication business into profitability and stability. King suffered a stroke Friday at his Boca Raton, Fla. home and died on Saturday at the age of 63. King World was founded by his father, Charles King in the 1960’s, which one of its […]
The CBS name returns to syndication
They’re back. But the new CBS Television Distribution is in the spirit of the old CBS Films, the syndication division of CBS before the government forced the big three networks to rid itself of the lucrative syndication business in 1970 via the financial interest and syndication rules, which ended in 1995. In 1971, CBS spun-off Viacom, and became a very […]