CBS finance chief touts content
The new CBS Corp. spends $6 billion-$7 billion a year on content, about half its total revenue and more than most media companies, finance chief Fred Reynolds reminded Wall Street as the TV, radio…
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‘Geraldo’ slot improves
Twentieth Television's "Geraldo at Large," hosted by Geraldo Rivera, has been upgraded in Gotham to 6:30 p.m. from 4 p.m. on WNYW-Fox 5.
Seligman joins Oscarcast team
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has named Michael B. Seligman associate producer of the 78th annual Academy Awards telecast.
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ABC captures youth
ABC bookended last week's primetime action with big numbers from "Monday Night Football" and its Sunday megahits, topping its rivals among young adults for a second straight sesh. The week of Nov…
Mel’s minefield
Mel Gibson isn't shying away from edgy subject matter with his latest project -- an ABC movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust. Gibson's Con Artist Prods. along with Jaffe/Braunstein Prods…
Kidvid food ads blamed
SpongeBob, Shrek, Dora the Explorer, Jimmy Neutron and other popular kidvid characters should take a tip from Popeye and encourage children to eat healthy foods, a new federal report advised.
Review: ‘Going Hollywood’
TLC does the showbiz underclass no favors with this six-hour series casting three particularly undistinguished 20-somethings as interns. Kevin Spacey, producer Robert Evans and hip-hop star Method…
‘Earth’ doc in Beeb orbit
The BBC hopes to repeat the international box office success of its theatrical documentary "Deep Blue," based on TV skein "Blue Planet," with a new natural history pic tentatively titled "Earth."
TV Azteca outfoxes GE
TV Azteca has beaten GE for control of bankrupt Mexico City-based UHF station Canal 40. Mexico's No. 2 net could begin broadcasting on the channel via subsidiary Organizacion Mexicana de Television…
U.K.’s ITV brings online Friends into fold
ITV, Blighty's biggest private terrestrial web, has bought the Friends Reunited Web site for £120 million ($200 million).
