| U.S. television shops for ideas overseas | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:18:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Executives at television networks in the United States are increasingly turning to Britain and other places overseas for new show ideas. The Los Angeles Times reported on this recurring trend, which took off again with the Emmy-winning U.S. remake of the British comedy show "The Office." The Times reported that CBS will soon be remaking the BBC's "Viva Blackpool!," a musical mystery series featuring singing detectives. Also on the way to the U.S. as remakes are the family drama series "Cape Wrath" and the political comedy "The Thick of It," both of which are originally from Britain. The idea recycling trend has reportedly fueled speculation as to whether Hollywood has run out of creative steam. Other popular entertainment, like the recent film "The Departed" and ABC's "Ugly Betty" are originally from China and Columbia, respectively.... | |
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| | | Van Hollen Campaign: Tells Television Stations to Pull Lying Falk ... | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:46:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | [Waukesha County, Wisconsin] J.B. Van Hollen has asked television stations in Wisconsin to pull a sleazy which lies about his record. Yesterday Falk supporters announced they would be running a television ad which lies about J.B. Van Hollen's prosecution of Stanley Newago in Bayfield County in 2000. The ad is factually inaccurate. Lawyers for the Van Hollen campaign sent a letter to broadcast television station managers across Wisconsin Friday, informing them that the content of the ad contains lies and therefore the ad should not air. "The Greater Wisconsin Committee ad is demonstrably false and defamatory," wrote Michael Crooks, Attorney for the Van Hollen campaign. "Moreover, the ad at issue does not constitute a "candidate use," and your station is under no obligation to keep it on the air.... | |
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| | | Growing up in North Carolina in the 1970s, Kevin Martin s television choices were extremely limited. His home received | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:35:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Growing up in North Carolina in the 1970s, Kevin Martin?s television choices were extremely limited. His home received just five stations, including the big three broadcast networks. Growing up in North Carolina in the 1970s, Kevin Martin?s television choices were extremely limited. His home received just five stations, including the big three broadcast networks. But as recently as 2003, his parents, who were still living in the same house, could choose from among seven broadcast networks and hundreds of cable channels. They also had access to a virtually unlimited amount of news and information through the Internet. Martin, 38, who was appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in March, made this point two years ago?when he voted to approve changes to a handful of media-ownership rules, including a relaxation of the cross-ownership ban?to show how much the media landscape has changed in the last few decades.... | |
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| | | Sale of Mason City television station KIMT finalized | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 7:11:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | DES MOINES, Iowa Mason City television station K-I-M-T has a new owner. Virginia-based Media General has sold the C-B-S affiliate and W-I-A-T in Birmingham, Alabama, and to New Vision Television of Atlanta. The 37 (m) million dollar deal was finalized today. K-I-M-T, which has about 60 employees, was acquired by Media General in 2000 from the former Spartan Communications, which had owned the station since 1984. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. .... | |
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| | | Television for toddlers serves up fast-food advertising: study | | Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 11:13:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fast food companies are dominating television programming for toddlers, suggests a study published in the October issue of the journal Pediatrics. Susan Connor, a research manager for Cleveland's Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, said she was inspired to study the effects of advertising on toddlers when her three-year-old toddler began humming the McDonald's jingle. "He had absorbed that from watching TV," said Connor. "It would be a marketer's dream to know they were that successful." The study found that messages for high-fat, high-sugar foods abounded on the child-targeted Nickelodeon specialty channel, the Disney Channel and on certain child-focused shows such as Sesame Street on the Public Broadcasting Service. Both Disney and PBS, which promote their policy of ad-free programming, show corporate sponsor messages.... | |
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| | | Cameraman keeps shooting as television reporter attacked in SD | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 1:11:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | SAN DIEGO - A television reporter was bitten and beaten as he and his cameraman, who captured the attack on video, tried to do a story on a couple they believed were involved in a real estate scam. Reporter John Mattes of Fox 6 News sustained cracked ribs, bite wounds and cuts to his face during Tuesday's confrontation with the couple, identified by authorities as Assad "Sam" Suleiman, 36, and his wife, Rosa Amelia Barraza, 33. Mattes accused Suleiman of stealing identities so he could buy houses and then rent them to others, according to Fox 6. In television footage, Mattes and cameraman Dennis Waldrop are seen talking to a man outside a La Jolla area home when a woman arrives and starts screaming and swearing at them. She sprays a bottle of water at the pair and strikes Mattes in the face with the plastic container.... | |
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| | | TCL Corp. Loss Widens on Unprofitable Television Subsidiary | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:11:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- TCL Corp., in which Royal Philips Electronics NV holds a 6.3 percent stake, had a second-quarter loss that widened mainly because of its unprofitable television unit. The company forecast a loss for the first nine months. The net loss was 607.3 million yuan ($76 million), compared with a loss of 365.4 million yuan a year earlier. Sales fell to 11.7 billion yuan, from 12.7 billion yuan. The earnings were derived by subtracting first-quarter figures from first-half earnings reported today. TCL, based in the southern city of Huizhou, attributed the loss to subsidiary TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Ltd., which teamed up with France's Thomson SA to form the world's largest TV maker. TCL Multimedia's European unit had losses of 763 million yuan in the first half.... | |
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| | | Shanna's New Television Gig Was Reason Behind Her Breakup With ... | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 1:23:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - Reality hit show "Meet The Barkers" stars, Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, recently announced they were ending their marriage The couple announced they had split earlier this month. Shortly thereafter, rumors began circulating that the former Miss USA had been unfaithful to her husband. According to Us Weekly, a close source to Shanna said, "When he found out, he flipped and told her he wanted a wife, not a Hollywood socialite." However, Shanna's infidelity was not the real reason behind the split, adds the source. The source says the real reason behind the split was Shanna's participation in the upcoming ABC hit show, "Dancing With The Stars." On August 14, Travis posted a mySpace blog on his page claiming he first heard about his wife's participation in the celebrity dancing competition through his real estate agent.... | |
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| | | (AFX UK Focus) 2006-08-18 13:55 GMT: JumpTV Signs With CVM Television Ltd | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 7:16:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | LONDON (AFX) - AIM-listed JumpTV Inc, which broadcasts ethnic television over the internet, said it signed a distribution agreement with Jamaican TV company CVM Television Ltd. Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, president and chief executive officer of JumpTV International, said the two companies "now have the ability to reach a large and virtually untapped market of the more than 2.5 mln Jamaicans living abroad". newsdesk@afxnews.com ak COPYRIGHT Copyright AFX News Limited 2005. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of AFX News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AFX News. AFX News and AFX Financial News Logo are registered trademarks of AFX News Limited .... | |
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| | | Once there were giants in television news | | Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 5:30:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | I wonder how many high school age people watched the two-hour "American Masters" presentation about Ed Murrow on PBS last Wednesday night. Not many, I'd guess, given that it didn't start until 9:30. I wonder how many high school social studies teachers taped it to show to their classes come September. .... | |
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