ABC Back On Cablevision As Talks Go On

from TVNewsCheck
By Karen Matthews
Associated Press, Mar 8 2010, 6:00 AM ET
NEW YORK (AP) — Cablevision and ABC were negotiating a deal Monday that tentatively ended a dispute over fees and restored millions of viewers’ access to the Academy Awards telecast in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shortly after the broadcast began.
The two sides, who [...]

Chris Moseley: Marketing “Expedition Africa” for History Channel

There are all kinds of marketing people…and it seems like everyday there is someone trying something unique and different to market a product or service. According to Wikipedia “Marketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities discover that existing and newly-identified needs and wants may be satisfied by the products and services [...]

Disney Joins Hulu

How cool is this?
Disney joins Hulu
Disney has finally confirmed that full-length programming from ABC will join the line-up of online video service Hulu and that the Mouse is taking a stake in the NBC Universal/News Corp joint venture as part of the deal.

Billy Campbell: Named President/CEO of Panavision

I have had the pleasure of knowing Billy Campbell since his days at Miramax and was familiar with his work at Warner Brothers and CBS. During his tenure at Discovery, Billy spoke at an event I produced for the Emmy Awards organization and he was excellent. I wish hm all the best in his new [...]

Fred Silverman: From Test Patterns to Pixels…

No conversation about the heyday of television from the late 60’s thru the early 80’s could not be complete without a discussion of the power and influence of Fred Silverman, my boss at NBC from 1979-1981. I received an interesting email from Syracuse University about an event that will be both on campus as and [...]

Network Promos: ABC 1981

Oh has the world changed…for the past few days I have been scouring through YouTube and came up with some really esoteric stuff. Last week I uploaded the NBC Network promo video from 1979 when I first started at 30 Rock. This time I uploaded the ABC Network promo from 1981 when I worked with [...]

Three Blind Mice all over again?

In his 1992 book “Three Blind Mice” author Ken Auletta offered a behind-the-scenes account of a clash of corporate cultures at ABC, NBC, and CBS, beginning in the mid- 1980’s, including egos, turf wars, as well as drastic change including technology. Now it appears as though it’s deja vu all over again according to [...]

MCain Won’t Support Palin 2012 Run … Yet

Any surprises here?

Sarah Palin in 2012 not!
on a side note, I had a hard time finding photos of Palin and McCain together…does that tell ya something?
By: Dave Eberhart
In a TV interview, Sunday, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, praised his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, but stopped well short of giving her the nod as the [...]