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COVER STORY KNOCKING AT NATPE'S DOOR
RISKY BET Despite odds, syndicators are undaunted in search for first-run hit. » 14
HIGH HOPES What's on syndicator drawing boards for NATPE » 16
INTO THE VIACOM STABLE Cable network Black Entertainment Television is sold for $3 billion. » 6 SPECIAL REPORT DON'T PLUG THE LEAKS Media executives fight bill that would criminalize MANAGING USA hopes it has found a star. release of classified information. » 7 ASSETS
DBS BLACKOUT Satellite TV must stop The new watchword Vendors are carrying some superstation and network pro- Lining up with ways to store, access, gramming. » 8 repurpose and distribute content. » 50
ABC Focusing on ENG first. » 54 CULTURAL EXCHANGE Complicated station swap gives classical music in BBC Repurposing news content. » 58 Cleveland a safe home. » 9 Discovery Managing across platforms. » 62
C -Span Supporting old and new media. » 66 A CLASS ACT Steve Allen is mourned by the industry he helped shape. » 10 SMPTE Seeking standards. » 68 Steve Allen dead at 78.
Programming Advertising B &C Eye 4 Momentum shift Cable is up, as broadcast Combined forces Petry and Blair program- Broadcast Ratings 30 fails to sustain the summer's heat. » 20 ming departments are merged. » 38 Cable Ratings 31
In the same direction The WB turns Changing Hands 36 around, and UPN builds on strength. » 24 Classifieds 77 Interactive Media Common Ground 43 Failed test Back -to- basics newscast at Online votes Categories, nominees, winners Cutting Edge 46 WBBM -TV is felled by low ratings. » 28 of My VH1 Awards picked by viewers. » 40 Datebook 70 Web appeal Non -business use of the Internet Editorials 90 Business is down, says PricewaterhouseCoopers. » 42 Facetime 72 Hispanic business In fast-growing segment, Fates & Fortunes 73 Univision attracts mainstream attention. » 34 Technology Fifth Estater 76 Financial Wrap -Up 9 Super payday CBS expects $150 million in ad Mobile D1V Granite tests CODFM -based Jessell's Column sales for Super Bowl and Survivor II. » 34 19 transmission in San Francisco Bay Area. » 44 Open Mike 88 Cable 30 Cox, Charter report double-digit 'Fair -use' fears Critics worry that Copyright Station Break 27 growth in cash flow and revenue. » 35 Office ruling will lead to 'pay- per-use' » 45 Syndication Ratings 29
Target option DTV feature would let stations Two Cents 87 switch viewers to special programming. » 46
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PROGRAMMING Timeless pyramid INTERACTIVL The old $25,000 Pyramid is getting a facelift, a lot more loot and Web in a box possibly a daytime and prime time platform for the 2001 -2002 TV Microsoft's Web TV (above) and season -not to mention a pair of new big -name hosts. Columbia 20,000 strong AOL's AOL TV will soon get some TriStar Television Distribution is developing remakes of the old competition in the TV-based Web Dick Clark- hosted game show (below) for syndication and network As usual, NAIPE organizers last surfing market. At CES in January, TV, sources say. It's trying to land former Seinfeld co -star Jason week were placing their bets that TeleCruz, which develops integrat- Alexander for the prime time version-The Million Dollar Pyramid. the Jan. 22 -25 conference in Las ed circuits and related software For daytime, it will probably bring a $25,000 version to NATPE in Vegas will be its strongest ever. for interactive television, and two January with comedian/actor Steve Harvey as the front -man. They say the show has 25% more major TV set manufacturers will exhibitors signed on than at this introduce TVs that include a time last year, and attendance phone jack, keyboard, and built -in should be right around 20,000. Spyglass browser software to New media companies are largely allow Internet access over the TV. fueling NATPE's growth on the
The two manufacturers are floor, but here's the amazing unnamed. The incremental cost of part: About half of the dotcoms the sets is expected to be in the that came last year aren't even in $50 -$100 range. And, according business anymore. Says NATPE's "A may to TeleCruí s George Brecht, one Bruce Johansen: company of the manufacturers will offer go down the tubes, but it's been free ISP service- instant messag- replaced by five others." ing, e-mail, and other features.
for the candidates with nothing to lose, GETTING READY TO DEAL The same can't be said however. Public stations across the country have received numerous Viacom has hired Morgan Stanley to help it figure out which TV sta- requests for time from Patrick Buchanan, Ralph Nader and the tikes tions to divest to get back under the 35% ownership cap. With the of Lyndon Larouche. acquisition of CBS, Viacom's local -TV- station coverage climbed to 41 %. Viacom wants to swap stations (creating additional duopoties D.C. where it can) and not just sell off stations. The groups it makes the TAUZIN'S CAMPAIGN Rep. Billy Tauzin (R -La.) has a re- election race on his hands for the most sense to deal with are Fox and Tribune. With its acquisition of first time in years. But only in a very literal sense. The Chris -Craft, Fox will be 5% over the cap. There are between 15 and Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman faces three opponents. 20 overlap markets among the three groups. The serious horse -trad- is to win, but it's a change for Tauzin who usually wraps ing hasn't begun yet. None going up his race in September without even a primary challenge. aide Ken Johnson was in the district last week, doing inter- TOO HOT TO HANDLi Tauzin views on TV and radio stations and running Tauzin's media cam- Major party candidates, apparently fearing a backlash from public while Tauzin was stuck in Washington on House business. broadcasting devotees and key lawmakers, have made virtually no paign, Tauzin, who aspires to become House Commerce Committee chair- use of government rules requiring n.mcommercial stations to give Republicans hold on to the House, plans to spend elec- free airtime to candidates since the opportunity gained nationwide man should night at parties in Washington "networking," Johnson says. coverage two weeks ago. tion
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BET now in Viacom's 'hood $2.9B takeover expands Sumner Redstone's cable empire; Johnson retains control
By Deborah D. McAdams seemed to be going in Iiptoeing carefully around the poten- the toilet as far as the tial racial land mines that accompany programming," said their $2.9 billion takeover, Viacom one African- American executives insisted last week that Black television executive. Entertainment Television will remain a sep- "It injects Viacom pro- arate business unit under the Viacom gramming and umbrella rather than being merged into its resources into BET, existing basic-cable network group. and it will be a better In past deals, Viacom's MTV Networks product. At the same simply absorbed the target. But, despite the time, it was the first obvious need for efficiencies to pay for the real black -owned tele- takeover of BET, Viacom President Mel vision network. Now, Karmazin said Black Entertainment the first black -owned Television will operate independently. BET makes money and gets criticized for its heavy reliance on videos. television network is Robert Johnson, who founded the net- going to be owned by work, will remain chairman and CEO and black community, certainly since BET's dis- a group of white guys. It's real conflicted." will report directly to Karmazin. Debra Lee tribution deals expire in 2002. Alvin James, senior managing partner of will continue as BET president and COO. A hands -off approach would be a depar- MBC, a fledgling black network with about Both have signed five -year contracts with ture for Viacom. In other recent cable-net- 1 million subscribers, said, "The thing that's Viacom. BET headquarters will remain in work acquisitions, including TNN, Country most exciting about it is there's finally some Washington at least for now. Music Television and The Box, Viacom's justice on the value placed on content target- The plan even calls for the network's MTV Networks took charge, wiped out exist- ing African- American consumers." much - criticized programming, heavy on ing management and took firm control of pro- Viacom agreed to pay about $2.3 billion in music videos, to remain in gramming and marketing. At stock and assume around $570 million in Johnson's hands, although TNN, for example, Viacom has debt for just about everything in the BET there may be some links with erased all traces of Nashville portfolio, including the 62.4 million -sub- CBS' news division and from what was The Nashville scriber cable channel. Not included are the Viacom's UPN, which has Network, transforming it into BET theme restaurants, magazines and a relied on black programming. The National Network in the pay-movie channel with STARZ! "The thing that we bring to MTV stable. Johnson founded BET 20 years ago with the table is enabling the man- Viacom executives are $15,000 of his own money; it is on track to agement of BET to invest in BET founder Robert worried, in part, about tram- make $120 million in cash flow this year. He to make Johnson stands any racial sensitivities stands to make around $1.5 billion. Lee, who the future," Karmazin said. $1.5B from the deal. pling on "Programming is something about the largest black -owned holds about 5% of BET, will receive about that the management of the channel deals and -programmed media company being $125 million out of the deal. John Malone's with. That is not something we do here at taken over by a lily -white media giant. Liberty Media has approximately 35% of Viacom." "What, a bunch of white guys are going to BET and stands to get a $875 million piece of A central element of the negotiation, run in there and fix BET ?" said one Viacom. The transaction accounts for about Johnson said, was how to make sure that Viacom executive. 40 million, or 22 %, of Viacom's outstanding BET continues as a strong voice for the "It's a good thing in a way, because BET shares at the current price of about $58.
6 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 TOP OF THE WEEK Congress seeks to gag INBRIEF THE BUSH SCOOP Erin Fehlau, reporter for the Fox classified -info leakers affiliate wvxr(rv) Portland, Maine, was tipped to the 24- year -old Media execs urge president to veto bill that would criminalize talkers drunk -driving arrest of Gov. George W. Bush by a policeman
who had overheard a judge and a By Paige Albiniak quently takes media -friendly stances, also spoke lawyer talking at a local court- Sorne of journalism's hardest -hitting sto- against the bill: "This bill violates the core pur- house. ries were written when reporters pose of the First Amendment, and it is vital that The lawyer later told her the obtained classified information from the president protect the values that have allowed story of the arrest and produced secret government sources. our nation to flourish by vetoing documents. News Director Kevin Kelly wouldn't run it until the sta- But such stories may never this bill." Schumer asked all his tion had court documents and the have come to light if a law had House and Senate colleagues to arrest record and had interviewed existed that made it a crime to a presidential support veto. the arresting officer. leak classified information, media The measure is included in leg- "You don't think about a story outlets pointed out last week. islation that authorizes the bud- this big happening in market They are fighting a bill Congress gets for government spy outfits, 80," Kelly said. sent to President Clinton that such as the Central Intelligence BIG THREE'S REVENUES would make former or current RTNDA's Cochran: Agency. It ended up on the presi- federal "Sometimes it's in the INCREASE 42% employees criminally government's dent's desk after months of back - interest to Net revenues at the Big Three net- liable for any classified informa- mate classified government room negotiations and was cham- information public." works jumped 42.5 %, to $2.6 bil- tion they passed on to anyone. pioned by Sen. Richard Shelby lion, in the third quarter, thanks a In letter, several top media executives last (R- Ala.), chairman of the Senate Select largely to the Olympics on NBC, week said that "legislation that criminalizes all Committee on Intelligence. according to Ernst & Young figures disclosures of classified information is anathema "This bill sends a strong message to leakers, released by the Broadcast to a system that places sovereignty in the hands since it will, for the first time, ensure that leakers Financial Management Association. Sports advertising soared 280 %, of the people." The letter, signed by CNN of all classified information may be held crimi- to $1.065 billion, sucking dollars Chairman Tom Johnson, nally accountable for their out of news (down 9 %), late Washington Post Publisher actions," Shelby said when night (down 6.5 %) and daytime Boisfeuillet Jones, News- "This bill violates the the Senate passed the bill. (down 4.5%). For the first nine paper Association of core pur pose of the Shelby's House counter- months, Big Three revenues are up America President John part, Rep. 25 %, to $8.5 billion. First Am endment." Porter Goss (R- Sturm and New York Times Fla.), is less enthusiastic about Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, -Sen. C harles Schumer the bill but still supportive. CANDIDATE CAN USE C -SPAN FOOTAGE was sent to President Clinton Attorney General Janet The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of urging him to veto the measure. Clinton had Reno, an administration officiai, also supports Appeals Late last week allowed a until last Saturday to make a decision. the bill . She said last week that it closes a "very political campaign to use in its "Not only will the provision subject the narrow gap" in existing law that makes it a ads C -SPAN footage, but Missouri news media to more subpoenas as prosecutors criminal offense to leak classified defense infor- Republican Bill Federer will have seek to identify leakers,' but the law also will mation, according to the Associated Press. to remove the C -SPAN logo and lead to the practice of classifying more infor- On the other hand, White House Chief of other identifications. C -SPAN had mation as `secret' than is legitimately neces- Staff John Podesta appears to be interested in won an injunction earlier in the week that would have stopped sary," wrote Barbara Cochran, president of killing it, sources say. At press time, it was the congressional candidate from the Radio -Television News Directors unclear whether Clinton would veto the bill. using its footage, but Federer Association. And "sometimes it's in the gov- If he doesn't, media lobbyists have another appealed, and half the injunction ernment's interests classified govern- to make shot at changing or delaying it when Congress was disallowed. C -SPAN said it's ment information public." comes back after the election for a lame-duck crucial that the network not be Sen. Charles Schumer (D- N.Y.), who fre- session starting Nov 14. "dragged into partisan politics."
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footprints complain that the technical com- Local TV plexity of blacking out specific programs in a limited number of markets may make it impos- STRONG THURSDAY FOR sible for them to carry some shows and games. NBC IN NOV. SWEEPS Although Congress ordered the FCC gen- NBC attracted its second -best gets shield long -standing cable non -dupli- erally to apply nightly ratings of the season on cation rules to the satellite industry, more - Thursday. The lineup averaged a lenient rules should have been passed to network -best 12.1 rating /30 from DBS account for satellite carriers' nationwide cov- share in adults 18 -49 and 22.6 million viewers, according to erage, said EchoStar attorney Pantelis Satellite TV must black out Nielsen Media Research. NBC was Michalopoulos. "The commission didn't go up 8% in adults 18 -49 from the some superstation and nearly far enough to recognize the difference comparable night last year. network programming in difficulty blacking out programming from nationally distributed media as opposed to a GROWTH IN HIGH -SPEED By Bill McConnell local headend." CONNECTIONS choStar and DirecTV over the next DirecTV officials said they had less of a prob- High -speed lines, including cable four months must begin cutting off lem with the rules because they carry only one and telephone, connecting homes and small businesses to E many subscribers from some network, superstation. Broadcasters were evaluating the the Internet increased 57% dur- syndicated and sports programming broad- rules late last week and would not comment. ing first half 2000, according to cast by TV superstations. The new rules do not an FCC report. High -speed tele- The FCC last week put in 'The commission apply to any distant signals phone digital subscriber lines place rules that implement didn't go nearly far other than the superstations. increased by 157 %, to almost 1 last year's Satellite Home When satellite carriers million lines vs. about 370,000 enough to recognize Viewer Improvement Act, import other signals from lines at the end of 1999. High- the difference in speed lines over coaxial cable which paved the way for distant markets, the FCC systems increased 59 %, to about satellite carriers to offer difficulty blacking will apply long -standing 2.2 million lines from 1.4 million local network affiliates. rules that allow service only programming last year. The trade -off for satellite out to viewers who can't receive carriers was that they from nationally an acceptable, or "Grade B," TRUONG LEAVES FCC agreed to block signals from signal. To -Quyen Truong, associate chief distributed media as distant markets to viewers Blackout requirements of the FCC's Cable Services, this means of receiving opposed to a local also apply to sporting events week joins the telecommunica- with the tions practice of Dow, Lohnes & the same programming headend. when teams and leagues for-
Albertson, a Washington law from local network affiliates bid broadcasts in local mar- - Pantelis Michalopoulos, firm. Truong oversaw the FCC's and to transmit local sports attorney kets. Blackouts are generally review of cable -industry mergers events that broadcast sta- ordered in markets when and the development of the tions in that market are barred from airing. home games aren't sold out. policies. agency's broadband Last week's non -duplication rules cover The sports -blackout rule applies to network network and exclusive syndication program- programming as well as superstations. Satellite CORRECTIONS by the six "superstations ": KTLA- carriers are barred from airing games carried In the Oct. 30 article titled "Raw ming offered Nitro Smackdown," Eric Bischoff TV Los Angeles, WPIX -TV New York, WWOR- by superstations or networks if a sports team or was incorrectly identified. He is TV New York, KWGN -TV Denver, WSBK -TV league's exclusive distribution rights also bar
a former executive producer for Boston and WGN -TV Chicago. Under the new the local broadcaster from airing the event. WCW who was later rehired. non -duplication rules, local TV stations may The sports leagues are unhappy that the demand that satellite carriers black out any FCC did not extend the blackout rule to sta- In the Oct. 30 Facetime, Court network or syndicated programming from tions from distant markets, not just from net- TV documentary producer Maria superstations that duplicate their program- work affiliates and superstations. FCC offi- Zone, who had been held hostage by convicted killer ming. The blackout requirement applies only cials, however, said Congress did not ask for Kenneth Kimes, was incorrectly to viewers located within specific ZIP codes limits on other stations, and other stations are identified. served by the local broadcaster. currently being imported from distant mar- Satellite broadcasters covering national kets.
8 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 B R O A D C A S T I N G & C A B L E / B L O O N_ B E R G S T O C K I N D E X E S
FINANCIAL BROADCAST TV (11/05/99 -11/03 /00) CABLE TV .11/05/99- 11/03/00) RADIO (11/05/99 -11/03/00) WRAP -UP 350 - 400 1200 350 - 300 1000 250 300 Week 800 of October 30 - November 3 250 200 200 600 WINNERS 150 150 400 11/03 change 100 % 100 200 Radio One $11.50 53.33 50 50 Cumulus $6.63 51.43 0 0 0 Regent Comm..._ $6.88 44.74 Week nding 11/03/00 Week nding 11 /03'00 Week nding 11/03/00 Citadel Comm..._ $12.94 42.76 Close 291.13 Close 276.78 Close 603.3) lithr Liberty Digital..._ $13.75 29.41 High 291.13 3.6% High 283.81 High 626.4 Low 281.65 Low 274.84 Low 525.23 LOSERS 11103 % change DOW JONES NASDAQ S&P 500 Insight Comm $13.13 (14.98) Week ending 11/03/00 Week ending 11/03 00 Week ending 11/03/00 Big City Radio.... $3.13 (10.71) Close 10818.00 Close 3451.58 Close 1426.69 ..ogair Comcast $39.31 (6.26) High 10971.11 2.6% High 3451.58 High 1429.40 Valuevision $19.75 (4.82) Low 10835.80 Low 3191.40 Low 1398.66 Sprint $23.88 (4.50)
Conrad and shareholders, who will operate it under an LMA as Cleveland Classical Classic continuation Radio, with Seaway's syndication arm including broadcasts of the Cleveland Cleveland's WCLV -FM creates classical music safe harbor via Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, San complicated radio swaps with Salem Communications Francisco Symphony and Karl Haas' Adventures in Good Music. By Tom Feran When the swaps are finished -in about Conrad's WCLV was the only major Roll over, Beethoven: Cleveland's a year-WCLV will simulcast on FM and Cleveland station not owned by a large Radio Seaway celebrated the 38th AM over the WAKS -FM and Wt -uc -AM fre- group owner and, in recent years, ran on -air birthday of classical WCLV -FM on quencies. License of the FM will transfer to spots reminding listeners to frequent its Nov. 1 with an unusual deal to give its clas- the new WCLV Foundation, a consortium advertisers-or else face the loss of a classi- sical -music format safe harbor in perpetu- of Radio Seaway, the Cleveland Orchestra, cal outlet as has happened in other cities. ity. The price of safety will be a move to the Cleveland In the most recent less -tony ports through a carefully orches- Foundation and Media Arbitron survey, WCLV 'It's a case of having trated quartet of station swaps in the city Inc., the company posted a 3.0 average - that is home to what some believe is the formed by last month's your cake and eating quarter -hour share and nation's premier symphony orchestra. merger of public broad- it, t 00. ranked 15th among local Seaway said it will sell WCLV's full dass B casters WCLV -TV and stations. There is no other -Robert Conrad, WCLV-FM license at 95.5 MHz to Salem WCPN -FM. commercial classical sta- Communications in a $35 million cash Profits will be shared tion in the city. transaction. Salem will also transfer to with five local cultural institutions: the Conrad said WCLV's new FM will Seaway one of its six area stations, WI- ix -AM, orchestra's parent, Musical Arts upgrade to class B1 with a taller tower a 5,000 -watt full -timer now airing Christian Association; the Cleveland Museum of closer to Cleveland that could approach programming, at 1420 kHz. Art; the Cleveland Institute of Music; the current metro coverage. The AM will get Also transferred to Seaway will be Clear Play House and the Cleveland capital signal improvements and is Channel's west suburban WAKS -FM, a class Foundation. upgradable to 50 kW daytime. "The bet A licensed to Lorain, Ohio, that now oper- Last week, Robert Conrad, WCLV that we're making is that digital audio ates with a contemporary-Mt radio format founder and president, said of the deal, "It's broadcasting is going to come along and known as KISS on 104.9 MHz. a case of having your cake and eating it, too. make the AM as good as any FM," Conrad The final movement of the complicated The station is something I've nurtured and said. score has Clear Channel getting Salem's loved; it's a community asset, and I didn't The deal was brokered by George Reed WHK -FM, a class B licensed to Canton, want it to go away." of Media Services Group for Radio Seaway Ohio, at 98.1 MHz. The AM will stay under control of and Gary Stevens for Salem.
Broadcasting & Cable /11-6 -00 9 TOP OF WEEK A class act on- screen and off Steve Allen is mourned and remembered by friends, colleagues and the entertainment world
ment for Our Miss Brooks and later switched to days. That grew into Tonight. Even the nightly grind didn't sap Men's energies, as he began a Sunday -night variety rival to Ed Sullivan in 1956. This Steve Allen Show featured Elvis Presley even before the famous Sullivan appearance. Allen often displayed grittier, edgier guests, including jazz musicians, beat writer Jack Kerouac and comics Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Jonathan Winters and Lenny Bruce. Over the years, Men developed his own Dr. Robert Batscha (l), talented stock company, induding Don president of the Museum of Television Knotts, Pat Harrington, Tom Poston, and Radio, with Jayne Louis Nye, Dayton Men, Bill Dana and Meadpws (Mrs. Steve Allen) and Steve Allen bandleader Skitch Henderson. Men left The Tonight Show in 1957, but a Steve Men show continued in one form or By Dan Trigoboff and week by those who knew him Writers another through the mid- 1970s. Beatrice Williams -Rude Guild of America President Herb Sargent From 1977 to 1981, Men produced the Steve Allen's talent could not be con- said, "Even though I shouldn't say this, I project of which he was most proud: Meeting tained, even in the box he helped think he could have done the show without of Minds. In each episode, a handful of his- shape. writers. Working with him was the best torical figures-Cleopatra, Thomas Paine, First earning celebrity in a radio booth experience I ever had in television, includ- Thomas Aquinas and Theodore Roosevelt more than half a century ago, Allen record- ing my days working at Saturday Night among others -would discuss various issues, ed albums, appeared in films, wrote plays Live." in character. The Peabody Award -winning and dozens of books, composed thousands His approach to the talk show proved so show regularly featured Men's wife, actress of songs and spoke out on public issues right enduring that many Allen- inspired ideas Jayne Meadows. up until his death last week at the age of 78. were considered innovative when resur- In films, he is best remembered playing But it was Allen's contributions to televi- rected and modified by an openly grateful the title role in The Benny Goodman Story. sion for which he is best remembered. The David Letterman. "His early work is really He also was a compulsive composer; his Steve Allen Show ran on all of the Big Three the foundation for what late -night shows best -known song is This Could Be the Start networks and in syndication for more than have become," Letterman said last week. of Something Big. 20 years. A 1953 local show over WNBT-TV His first job was at xoY(AM), where, leg- In later years, Men became active in try- New York became Tonight! on the NBC end has it, Allen once told his audience that ing to battle what he considered increasing network, replacing Broadway Open House the score for a football game between Har- vulgarity and smut in popular culture. and making Allen the first to host what vard and William & Mary was "Harvard Last year at a comedy awards show, would later be The Tonight Show. 14, William 12 and Mary 6." recalled satirist Mark Russell, "Steve was
It was Allen who inaugurated such talk - Allen took his radio schtick to Los very upset. He went to every table where show staples as the opening monologue, Angeles' KNx(AM), where his late -night there were children and apologized for the the desk - chair- and -sofa set, bits that show attracted attention and impromptu content of the show, the profanity." involved the studio audience, and bringing celebrity drop -ins. The first of several Steve This stance teamed the liberal Men with his cameras outside the studio for improvi- Allen Show television programs followed conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III, sation with the man on the street. out of New York in 1950. It was broadcast who called Men a hero. "Steverino" was verily venerated last first five nights a week as a summer replace- Men leaves his wife and four sons.
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high hopes for the high- spirited Caroline Rhea. Here and there, you can run into names like 111111011111.114110)000111**, perennial Tom Arnold, comedian Alan Thicke, 1990 -1991 1995 -1996 1999 -2000 MTV's Ananda Lewis and celebrity temptress TALK SHOWS Carmen Electra. 9.4 rating 6.4 rating The process is nothing new. It has hap- #2 Donahue Jerry Springer pened every winter for the last 38 years. 6.2 rating 4.3 rating The King Worlds, Paramounts, Warner OFF -NET SERIES #1 Cosby #1 Home Improvement #1 Friends Bros. and Columbia TriStars trot out their 8.1 rating 9.1 rating 6.2 rating latest batch of talk, magazine, court, action or #2 21 Jump Street #2 Seinfeld Seinfeld 4.8 rating off-network shows for the coming season. 7.2 rating 5.8 rating
And every year each studio promises to have MAGAZINES #1 Entertain. Ton. Entertainment Tonite Entertainment Tonite the next big thing in syndication -the next 8.3 rating 6.7 rating 6.2 rating #2 A Current Affair Inside Oprah Winfrey or Entertainment Tonight. Edition Extra 7.7 rating 5.8 rating 3.5 rating Sometimes they do. More often, they don't. ACTION HOURS #1 Star Trek: Next Gen. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Xena: Warrior Princess 10.4 rating 6.4 rating 3.4 rating The syndication industry is still big busi- #2 Super Force Hercules: The Leg. Jour. Stargate: SG1 ness, with annual license fees to studios in 4.7 rating 5.8 rating 3.1 rating the $4 billion to $5 billion range and anoth- GAME SHOWS #1 Wheel of Fortune Wheel of Fortune Wheel of Fortune er $2 billion to $2.5 billion in barter- adver- 13.4 rating 12.4 rating 11.1 rating tising sales switching hands every season. #2 Jeopardy Jeopardy Jeopardy But ratings have hit all-time lows across the 12.0 rating 10.2 rating 9.2 rating board, with new first -run shows this season Source: Nielsen Media Research averaging well below a 2.0 national house- National household averages based on Sept. -May airings hold rating -a threshold that would have had a new syndicated series pulled off the launched Ricki Lake in 1993, 122 other shows and at this season's, the future does- air only a few years back. first -run strips (shows on five days a week) n't look too promising. Very rarely do syndicated shows make it have been launched in syndication. But of Last fall saw the launch of Dr. Joy Browne, past one full season, and some don't survive the talk shows in that bunch, guess how Ainsley Harriott, Richard Simmons' Dream for more than a few months. Increased many are still on the air? One: Warner Maker, Martin Short and Queen Latifah. competition from cable, the Internet and Bros.' The Rosie O'Donnell Show. Only Latifah came back for a second year and, in the most recent national ratings, was averaging a 1.1 household rating, according is watching [talk shows] That's not where the to Nielsen Media Research. t is. It's a big money pit: -Syndication exec Among this fall's batch of talk shows, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus even from expanded broadcast-network The list of failures is long and wide, and Housecalls are schedules has made syndication a very risky including Roseanne, Howie Mandel, Magic all averaging bet these days. Johnson, Terry Bradshaw, Donny and Marie, below a 1.5 "Daytime is killing a lot of people right Genie Wilson and even Jim and Tammy now," says one top syndication head. "I Faye Bakker. Columbia's Ricki Lake is don't know why these people continue to go "The is hope that you will have the excep- one of the few after these real expensive one -hour talk tion to the rule, that you will have that one talk -show survivors. shows. Nobody is watching them. That's not breakout show," says Tribune Entertainment where the market is. It's a big money pit" President Dick Askin. "The market has been Earlier in the '90s, syndicators launched getting tougher every year for a long time talk shows featuring Sally Jessy Raphael, now, but in spite of that, you still have new Montel Williams, Jenny Jones, Jerry shows coming on the air that break through Springer and Maury Povich. But since the barrier and prove to be very successful." Columbia TriStar Television Distribution But looking at last year's crop of new talk
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national rating. Men Are From Mars aver- aged only a 0.8 rating in the recent weekly what works figures. Trying to find How low can the ratings go? "It depends on the cost of production, and In syndication, failure begets opportunity. So by that calculation, there it depends on what kind of product we're should be nothing but upside at the NAIPE 2001 convention. Much of talking about," says Steve Rosenberg, presi- what's new in syndication isn't working well, so there are plenty of holes dent of Studios USA Domestic Television. to fill, and it's harder than ever to do it. "There is no clear answer. We'll have to see." "Syndicators used to be able to say `Trust me, I can produce X celebrity or Petry Media's Director and Vice X format.' But the reality is that the audience told them that they can't," says President of Programming Garnett Losak Katz TV's Bill Carroll. says syndication may be losing ground to But, on the other hand, opportunity is all over the place. There have been cable, but it still isn't losing altogether. few success stories in 2000. And there are perennial rumors Rosie O'Donnell "Cable networks make money on a .3 will leave her talk show after 2002, but even if that's not true, the fact is that rating, so a 1.5, 1.4 rating in syndication syndicated strips like hers are aging. looks pretty good to that," says Losak. "I Here's a passel of shows knocking at NATPE's door (unless stated other- think there is money to be made, and I wise, none is a firm go): often hear from syndicators that a 2.0 demo rating is what they need to make money on BY SUSANNE AULT most shows. That's certainly doable, but it's getting tougher." ODD REALITY studio audience deciding whether feuding The alternative appears to be cheaper Universal Worldwide Television is cur- people should "talk" out their differences programming. Game, relationship, court rently having meetings with stations on or "walk" away from hammering out a res- and reality shows are in, multimillion -dollar Rapid Dating (also known as Speed olution. At Paramount Domestic talk shows are out. Dating), which would star real people Television, a late night strip called Rendez Industry executives say the average getting to know each other using View has celebrities making snappy com- weekly production costs for a first -run Orthodox Jewish dating principles. Also ments from a studio while a camera follows court show are in the $180,000 to $220,000 from Universal is 7 Deadly Questions, a blind date. range. For video -clip reality shows, it's even which would feature co -eds playing ice- Fox Television Stations chairman Mitch cheaper. And the ratings for such shows are breaker games in a limo. Stern said Twentieth Television is "serious- generally working. Judge Judy is the highest - Lions Gate Television, in association ly looking at six or seven projects." But rated one of the bunch, now averaging with Fisher Entertainment is shopping sta- with Bob Cook just now stepping in as dose to a 7.0 national rating in its fifth sea- tions with Who Wants To Date a Hooters Twentieth's president, final decisions son in syndication. Of the 11 first -nm court Girl? (There's a question to ponder.) The haven't been made. Sources say Twentieth's shows currently in syndication, half are late -night game/relationship strip would offering might be Big Diet from Big Brother averaging over a 2.0 national rating, includ- incorporate the Hooters restaurant wait- producers Endemol. In this one, people try ing newcomer Power of Attorney. resses into the show. to top each other exercising, and "If you are going to bring out a new show Studios USA Domestic Television is the winner gets whatever now, you really have to believe in the prod- mulling syndicating Sci -Fi Channel's weight he or she loses -in uct," says Studios USA's Rosenberg. "Then Crossing Over With John Edward, where gold. the next question is how much do you real- Edward channels the thoughts of dead rel- Nothing has been offi- ly believe in the product, how good is it real- atives to family members. Not surprising- cially greenlit for ly and how long can you stay with it bleed- ly, Tribune Entertainment sold one- production, but ing the amount of money that you are bleed- hour daytime strip Talk or Elimidate from ing, depending upon production costs." Walk to its own Tribune W a r n e r Not many stations have patience these Broadcasting, BrosJTelepictures is mar- clearing the strip already out in the mar- days, and with the consolidation of the Buena Vista will ketplace, on both the studio and station in 38% of the try a talk show ket to stations. The half- with self -help - hour strip matches up side, shows from rival companies aren't country and jump guru Iyanla being given too much opportunity to suc- starting its NATPE Vanzant. one girl with four guys (or ceed. business. It features a vice versa), and the
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featured suitors whittle down their prospects show, with the jackpot likely worth more ject is the return of Card Sharks, but it has- to one relationship- worthy individual, while than $25,000. n't officially gone out to stations. the contenders try to sabotage each other's Hearst Entertainment journeys to At Promark, its The Secret Adventures of chances. It's "as catty as can be," says one NATPE with The Bravest, a weekly action Jules Verne was filmed in high- definition at source close to the project. High praise. hour showcasing heroic firefighters. an estimated $2.5 million an episode. No Children's weekly program Pet Shop will domestic deal is in place for the weekly OPRAHLIKE & OTHERWISE also be shopped. action hour, but international interest will One definite is Iyanla from Buena Vista, MGM's Chat Room America, a no -go financially buoy the project. Sources close executive produced by Barbara Walters out of last year's NATPE, has been given to the studio say that 10 U.S. stations, three and hosted by self -help author Iyanla another shot. Pearson's high priority pro- in top markets, have signed on. Vanzant, who's been an Oprah guest a dozen times in the last year. With executive producer Mark Lipinski (senior producer on The View) already attached, the Studios USA's daytime talk Onward Oprah
show entry seems to be QVC's popular Come on now. You didn't think Oprah Winfrey would realty go Kathy Levine, well known to viewers there, away. But where she'll go while under her new two -year con- and coming in to NAIPE with a built -in tract with King World, is definitely something to think about. fan base. Her show is all but a done deal Oprah's core ABC 0 &0 station base has every reason to CBS Enterprises/King World is looking accept King World's new terms to carry through the show at a new talk show starring MTV talent through 2004. The talker's price tag will change-"we'll ask for Amanda Lewis (think Oprah for the next a fair increase on [the license fee]," insists the distributor's generation); While the new syndication chairman Roger King -but Oprah is still a "no -duh" good buy. Productions, the division started by NBC and headed by for- Produced by Winfrey- managed Harpo show runs over the ratings of her nearest chat competitor on mer CBS Enterprises /King World CBS' O &Os may go after King World's popular talk show. a weekly basis by about 65 %, according to Nielsen Media President Ed Wilson, hasn't given The Research. Other View the final NATPE nod, "we Confirms an ABC representative, "We have had a long relationship with Oprah and King have every intention to take this out," says World, and we hope that it will continue for many years to come." an NBC representative. The Other View is Maybe. However, it's not far-fetched for the CBS 0 &O's to make a play for Oprah, considering ABC's The View in reverse, with a panel of the stations are now closely tied with King World via last year's merger. male hosts (Dick Clark, Danny Bonaduce, "I think anyone would have to take a look at the property. I assure you that we'll be talking Extra weekend anchor Steve Santagati and about it," says one source close to CBS. "Oprah is a business in and of itself, and anyone who plastic surgeon Dr. Jan Adams). dismisses it would be foolish." Look for a potential catfight between Locking Oprah into the late afternoon dayparts would certainly be a boon to CBS stations,
this one and Twentieth Television's similar- providing a "halo effect going into local newscasts," says the source, speaking of top cities ly themed The Real Deal, a guy- skewing where CBS often trails its market rivals. talker featuring Alan Thicke. And King acknowledges that "when you have a show as powerful as Oprah Winfrey, you have At Paramount so far, Caroline, a daytime other stations that want it." However, he maintains that "the clients that have been good for chat/how-to series starring comedian us for years will have the first crack at any of our renewals. We go back to the incumbent the time." Caroline Rhea, is its official and biggest 100% of Yet King says that if he can't iron out the renewal, then "we'll open up the market and talk NATPE gun. Rumors are she could be an to everyone. If there's more than one station [group], we'll ask them to bid." early replacement for Dr. Laura, but studio It's estimated that Oprah represented half of King World's entire $210 million cash flow in officials say Caroline is designed for fall 2001. 1999. In just Los Angeles, sources say the company rakes in about $250,000 a week, or about
$13 million a year, in license fees. AND OTHERS For her last two -year deal through 2002, it was said that Winfrey was guaranteed $150 mil- -Star top pro- ColumbiaTri Distribution's lion. Now sources say she'll grab $165 million, or about 10% more, through 2004, but King jects in development are a late -night strip denies financially restructuring her contract. starring Tom Arnold, a new spin on the "Most ABC stations lose money for what they pay vs. what they take in. But having that classic Gong Show titled People Vs. and a Oprah factor is pretty overwhelming for your programming," says the CBS source. If King World possible series with Carmen Electra. Its was selling, he deadpanned, "We would return the phone call." -Susanne Ault lead project is a revamped Pyramid game
18 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 EDITOR Harry A. Jessell Commercial overload
Kids need a place that's safe from TV spots
When my older daughter was 6, she didn't want much for est weapon in a marketer's arse- Kellogg's, Chuck E. Cheese and Christmas. At the top of her short wish list: "marsh- nal to win a child's heart." KB Toys. mallows, the big kind." From 7 on, the list has been In a book of 253 pages, Del "Reducing children to com- much longer, brand specific and, needless to say, more Vecchio devotes two to dis- modities and serving them up expensive to fulfill. cussing (and basically defend- to underwriters is not exactly So what happened between her sixth and seventh birthdays? ing) the propriety of marketing something one normally associ- Commercial TV, of course. For her first six years, we restricted her to kids. The rest is simply a ates with public television," to noncommercial TV- Sesame Street and the like -and thus highly readable handbook on Cook's paper concludes. "And shielded her from those powerful electronic pitches for toys, games child psychology and how to yet, this appears to be the way and dolls. So, come Christmas, her demands were modest. But as put it to work in creating and of the future." soon as we let her loose in the world of commercial TV, she sud- selling products for kids. The only thing kids have denly developed the same TV- inspired wants as every other red - It's too bad kids have so few going for them is the 1990 law blooded American girl. places to go to avoid commer- setting limits on commercials in As every parent knows, you can't protect your children from the cials. The only places I can think kids programming: 12 minutes world forever-from the real one or from the make -believe one of TV of are HBO and the Disney per hour on weekdays, 10.5 Learning to deal with appealing ads for dubious products is part of Channel. But HBO's children's minutes on weekends. Unfor- growing up in America, and much of the programming the advertis- offerings are limit- tunately, some ed, and Disney is Isn't there broadcasters can- one long promo, not seem to play somethin g creepy ing supports is well worth see- them stuff? Of course, those in apt to accept out- within those gen- ing- clever and funny and the business don't see it that side advertising about g rownups erous bounds. meaningful. Instead of flat -out way. They say they are merely after its transfor- who go to work Between 1996 banning commercial TV I try to trying to satisfy the emotional mation from a pay and 1999, the instill a little skepticism in both and psychological needs of to basic service is each day to FCC fined or my daughters. That stuff just kids. They are doing them and complete. study ch ildren so admonished 194 ain't as good as it looks, kids. their parents a favor. What about TV stations for they ca n better I'm not joining the acade- That's the way Gene Del PBS? Surely the exceeding the mics who protested the chil- Vecchio spins it. He's a chil- publicly funded sell the m stuff? limits. Way to go, dren's advertising awards in dren's marketing consultant network provides broadcasters. New York last month and who and author of Creating Ever- a safe harbor against child psy- My oldest, the marshmallow demand government regula- Cool: A Marketer's Guide to a chologists/marketers. Not ac- fan, is now 16 and on her own tion. Yet I'm bothered by the Kid's Heart. But he sort of gives cording to Judi Cook, an assis- in dealing with the media. But I whole business of advertising himself away in discussing "the tant professor at Salem State still caution my 12- year -old to kids, by children's marketers battle" over the $160 billion College in Salem, Mass. She about those relentless commer- and their eager accomplices, worth of goods and services studied the programming day of cials promising excitement, children's TV programmers. whose purchase is influenced WGBH -TV Boston last February happiness and popularity. And And the better the ads, the by children. "The battle will be and found it was loaded with to all those who toil to create more it bothers me. won by the company that best advertising spots and most of such ads, I say, get a real job. Isn't there something creepy understands kids, their emo- them-80 out of 97 -aired about grownups who go to tional needs, their fantasies, before or after children's shows. Jessell may be reached at work each day to study chil- their dreams, their desires. The sponsors were familiar- [email protected] or dren so they can better sell Such knowledge is the mighti- the likes of Juicy Juice, at 212 -337 -6964.
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Fox Family's Scariest Places on Earth won key adult demos in cable on Friday, Oct. 27, and may signal a comeback for the floundering network. Cable climb continues Broadcast season premieres don't hold on to those fickle summer viewers of 'Survivor,' 'Millionaire'
By Deborah D. McAdams the 100.08 million television households) broadcast networks pulled in a 31.5 rating of everybody loves Raymond, or rose from a 23.6 last year to a 24.0, for the this year, compared with a 33.1 last year. All the Yankees, or Geena, or Will & first three weeks of October. The Big Four seven broadcast nets together generated a N Grace, or even The West Wing. In 35.4, compared with a 37 last year. fact, a growing number of people prefer "What they need is another Survivor or Jackass, Dragon Ball Z and Biography. Cable October's top 10 another Millionaire. Without that, they slip viewership continued its slow but steady right back into the mold of the last 15 Network CVG% HH %chg growth in October against the new fall years," said Lifetime Senior Vice President 1 TBS 1.9 1.5m -5% broadcast season and the World Series, and of Research Tim Brooks. "They've allowed 2 Cartoon 1.9 1.2m +12% broadcast slipped, despite a fresh schedule cable to build these brands Lifetime, 3 ESPN 1.2 1.4m -22% - with 35 new shows. Nick, CNN and now Cartoon these 4 Lifetime 1.E 1.3m -% -and
During the summer, the broadcast net- 5 Nickelodeon 1.E 1.2m -20% brands are much stronger than shows. works appeared to stanch the audience ero- 6 USA 1.5 1.2m -29% Having let that genie out of that bottle and sion on the power of Survivor and 7 A &E 1.L 1.1m +8% letting those brands build themselves, they Millionaire, but the momentum didn't last. 8 TNT 1.4 1.0m 0% can't get it back in the bottle again." Combined cable viewership showed about 9 TNN 1.1 0.88m +38% It was actually niche networks and news 2% growth over October 1999, according 10 Discovery 1.0 0.32m -17% that powered cable through October. to early estimates, compared with an equal CVG % = Primetime cab rating Cartoon Network tied TBS for the top spot HH= Household avergc ratings decline for the broadcast networks. %chg= Ratings change from 1999 in prime time with a 1.9, up 12% from last
Cable's collective U.S. rating (percentage of Source: Nielsen Media Researh Data provided by Turner year on the growing power of Dragon Ball Z.
20 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 Bobby Labonte won the race. Advertisers won over viewers.
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A &E scored its biggest October ever on the people are still looking for a title, not a power of Biography, including an episode theme, unless it's very promotable." featuring film legend Robert Redford. Brooks attributed a downward trend among general-entertainment cable net- works to the lack of brand identification. "TBS for example, there's nothing specific you think of when you think of TBS. In cable today, you have to have a strong brand and fulfill it," he said. "That's [Nickelodeon's] problem. Nick doesn't ful- fill it at night." Nickelodeon has dominated total day for five years, but it is slipping in prime time, down 20% this month from last year, though still tied with Lifetime at No. 4. "Two or three years ago, Nick had shows with more of a strong edge to them," Brooks said. "They're safer now, almost PBS safe. The Brothers Garcia is a fine pro- gram but not a brand program. [Nick] used to be a kids- against -the -world brand. Now it's kids with understanding parents A&E also pulled in its best October rating season than niche networks were because telling them how to live their life. I would with a 1.4, up 8% over last year, with two they saved their good stuff for later. USA be bullish on MTV: Whatever you think of powerful Biography episodes: one on also lost the WWF, but the network had Jackass, it's definitely the brand." Barbara Walters, which pulled in a 2.7, and started slipping before that. Jackass, a new series from the skateboard one on Robert Redford, which earned a 2.4. "We're not airing any originals right culture that critics pounded, pulled in high News networks made the greatest gains now," said Giacopelli. "We'll do originals 2.0s for MTV, helping end a four-month for the month, fueled by presidential politics again in January. We were trying to do slide. The network was flat for the month and violence in the Middle East. Fox News theme weeks with our movies, like horror with a0.9. Channel tied CNN at a 0.9 for the month; they were up 125% and 29 %, respectively. MSNBC jumped 33%, to a 0.4. The cable networks that didn't show Fox Family fights back gains in October were those that most The poster network for relaJrchas gene wry is finally making some headway. Fox Family, repo- resemble broadcast networks. Though sitioned from old -time religicn -o genera` entertainment in 1998, is showing signs of recovery
No.1 in prime time with a 1.9 cable rating, after a two -year ratings slide
TBS was off 5% from last year. TBS sister Total day was up 33% in Gc_ob ?r, fror a 0.3 to a 0.4, and, while traditional 8 -11 p.m. prime
TNT came in flat at No. 7 with a 1.4. USA time was down 30 °I°, evenincs be3innirt at 6 p.m., when the audience switches from kids to dropped 29% to No. 6 with a 1.5. Fox adults, are up slightly. The 6 -11 p.m. b cck is up 23% in adults 18 -34 and 10% in 25 -54s, Family at No. 17 was down 30% to a 0.7, acccrding to Maureen Smith, prudent i Fox Family. tying with FX, an emerging general- enter- Fox Family's "13 Days of Falbreen" cunt was especially good for the network, boosting tainment net from Fox that was down 13% total -day ratings for the period 67% ola last year, from a 0.3 to a 0.5, and 33% for the entire from last year. TNN was the only general morth, from a 0.3 to a 0.4. The final rig-It of Scariest Places on Earth, a five -part spooker that entertainment network to register growth, anchored the frightfest, scoed a resoe_ able 1.7 and won the time period in basic cable for up38 %, from a0.8toa 1.1, thanks to the key adult demos, including :8 -34, 18 -« and 25 -54. The Fearing Mind, a scripted series from addition of WWF wrestling. the house of Herson, was also launched during 13 Days. It managed to increase the time slot
USA Cable Vice President of Research by 44% against Game One o' the W'orlc Series, Forrest Gump on ABC and The Bridges of Madison
Ray Giacopelli said networks like USA County on NBC. -D.McA. were hurt more by the late fall broadcast
22 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 10.75" 10.75"
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President Gore and dininishin: - Govern° Bus Iiiewers are catching on
FOX News Channel had the #1 shows in pohtics debate and general news for the month of October. Evcn Larry King fell to "The O'Reilly Factor," which tmit top boors as the Of rimetim progra cable news.
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Shwa) Nielsen Medir Rsearch. October 20C/110)210040/2900h HH rat) #1=PI.F4pno11pe program name .er- ages f or Politics: Special Report with Brit hume-FNC rs. brae mal w/ h,iy Malitiews.CNB: anti 119JFC. II e Mitchell Re ert.MSNOC; thaler Moonily & Lehner-RC rs. CrosIt re VIN nut Time-MSNBC; C neral You hews: Tie FOX Report wth Shepard Soon vs. The World IndaelliN, The News F SMVilliens.(1113C and MSNB:. el report. decide: dprinetirn=all MC, CNN, MSNBC. and 4LN program nam art,ges, M-F 8pm-llein. ex °dim specials Programming Weblets now FOX WINS WEEK 4 With the World Series and debuts of Boston Public and Ally McBeal, Fox won week four of the new neck season in total viewers, house- and neck holds, adults 18 -34 and all key The WB and UPN on rise male demos, according to Nielsen the and drawing both sexes Media Research. NBC squeaked out a victory in adults 18-49, averag- By Joe Schlosser executives came dose to canceling drama ing a 5.4 rating /14 share to Fox's The WB and UPN went in opposite direc- Felicity, the very show that had been The WB's 5.3/14 in the demo. Fox also tions during the 1999 -2000 season, but trump card with advertisers months before. averaged a 5.1/15 in adults 18- so far this fall, it's a different story as both "UPN obviously is just building on what 34, and its 18 -49 number was its 6- year-old networks appear to be on the rise. they did last year at this time. Wrestling really best weekly average in eight A combination of new veteran shows months. and set them up and got some interest in their ABC (4.3) finished third in has the two weblets pulling positive ratings one other programming. They have really tapped adults 18 -49, followed by CBS month into the season. UPN, which has gone into who they believe is their core audience, with a 3.7 rating. In total view- after young men, and The WB, which has had and that's paying off for them," says TN ers, NBC placed second to Fox by a heavy concentration of young women, now Media Vice President Stacey Lynn Koerner. only 70,000 viewers, averaging seem to be attracing the opposite sex. "The WB is looking significantly better, most- 12.82 million viewers for the Last fall, UPN rode the strong arm of Vmce ly because they shored up a lot of their distri- week. CBS was third with 12.3 McMahon and his WWF Smackdown! to bution issues and their returning series are million, and ABC was fourth with 11.8 million. triple -digit ratings increases, rising out of the doing just fine. We're still waiting to see how NBC's one -hour season premiere ratings cellar and making a strong case as a their new shows will do." of Frasier was the highest -rated viable network. At the same time, The WB's Almost one year ago, WB executives opted show of the week, attracting white -hot momentum came to a halt as the to give up their cable carriage on WGN- 28.6 million viewers. network suffered distribution and ratings Superstation, dropping millions of potential woes. It got so bad last season that network viewers from the cable side and dropping cov- FULL -ORDER REPORT erage from 92% to 80 %. On the CBS last week gave full- season plus side, the loss of WGN was orders to five of its seven new aimed at pushing viewers to WB series, including Bette Midler's WWF Smackdown! gave a UPN, hoisting sitcom Bette; Yes, Dear; The lift to broadcast outlets to strengthen the network out of the District; C.S.I.; and The Fugitive, ratings cellar. the network's long -term plat- all of which have helped CBS form. But The WB's national rat- improve its 18 -49 demographic ings plummeted. performance this season. "It certainly let the air out," NBC gave a full-year order for says WB CEO Jamie Kellner. additional episodes of Ed, which "We were used to growing. We averaged a 4.8 rating /11 share in year, adults 18 -49 and 12.2 million view- had grown every and no ers on Sunday, Oct. 29, according matter how hard we worked last to Nielsen Media Research. year, we couldn't create growth." NBC also ordered seven But how quickly things can episodes of the midseason come- change. The network is fixing its dy Three Sisters. Fox also gave distribution woes and is back up back -nine episode orders to to about 87% coverage in the U.S. Boston Public and James Ratings are up nearly across the Cameron's Dark Angel. ABC hand- board. Monday through Thurs- ed out a full -season order to new comedy Geena, from co -owned day, The WB's core one -hour dra- Touchstone Television. mas including 7th Heaven, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's
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INBRIEF Creek-are rebounding from last season. In At UPN, the network is out to prove that particular, 7th Heaven has averaged 7.2 million it's not all about wrestling. Caught in the mid- viewers and is up 31% in adults 18 -34 and 12% dle of a tangled ownership web, it is doing just ... AND DOOMSDAY in adults 18-49. Buffy has averaged 5.7 million that, showing improvement across all five of After only five editions, NBC viewers and has jumped 37% in adults 18 -34 its nights from last year. pulled the plug freshman on and 15% in adults 18-49. Dawson's Creek is UPN' Monday -night African- American- drama Deadline. The Monday - bringing in 5.1 million viewers and has risen themed comedies, including new series night series from Law & Order 41% to a 3.7 rating/12 share in adults 18 -34. Girlfriends and The Hughleys (formerly on producer Dick Wolf struggled and Even Felicity, which received a half -season ABC), are 29% in adults 18 -34 was the unfortunate victim of up and 33% two sub -par lead -ins - Tucker and order last spring, is up 17% in adults 18 -34 in in women 18 -34. The network moved its Daddio -previously cancelled. its new Wednesday slot. movie franchise from Fridays to Tuesdays and Deadline crashed on Monday "Our distribution is getting stronger, and has grown the night by 86% in women 18 -34 (Oct. 30), averaging only a 2.6 the schedule is very stable," says Kellner. "We and 44% in adults 18 -49. rating /6 share in adults 18 -49, had some shows on the schedule last year that In its final season, Star Trek: Voyager is car- according to Nielsen Media were really hard to judge because of the tying Wednesday night, bringing 17% growth Research. change in distribution. This year, we are in adults 18 -34 and 18% in adults 18-49. pleased with the bets we made because WWF Smackdown! continues to dominate on FNC CHASES CNN in key Fox News Channels tied CNN for Roswell is certainly emerging as an important Thursdays, up another 30% the adults the month of October, each with show for us and Felicity's numbers are won- 18 -49 demo. New Friday action series Level 9 0.9 for prime time and 0.4 for the derful. I think stability and a maturing distri- and Freedom brought the network its best total day in its Nielsen universe, bution system make a big difference." original- programming ratings ever for the although CNN has far more view- All is not perfect at The WB, though. The night with their premieres on Oct. 27. ers because it is much more wide- network's new Sunda -night lineup of come- "We chose a target [young men] that we ly carried. So, for example, a 0.9 dies, including freshman series Hype, Nikki thought was underserved, and it proved to be for CNN means 542,000 house- and Grosse Pointe, is struggling. The three new the right choice," says UPN President Dean holds and for Fox News just 482,000. FNC was up 163% over a shows have been paired with returning come- Valentine. "We had the programming to back year ago; CNN was up 24 %. dies The Jamie Foxx Show, The Steve Harvey up the choice; particularly WWF Smackdown! Show and For Your Love, but the combination played a key role in that. Basically, the water UPN'S GOOD FRIDAY hasn't turned too many heads yet. level is rising at the network overall and that UPN's new Friday -night lineup tends to happen with networks brought the network its best - over time as viewers get more ever adults 18 -34, adults 18 -49 accustomed to tuning in to you." and overall male demo numbers Valentine says the network's with regular programming. The premieres of Freedom and chances of sticking around past Level 9 on Oct. 27 earned UPN a the current season "can't be 1.3 rating/5 share in adults 18- hurt" by the strong start. 34, a 1.5/5 in adults 18 -49 and To a degree, The WB and a 2.0/6 in men 25 -54 for the UPN have quit picking on each night, according to Nielsen other. For The WB, last year's Media Research. troubles were compounded by UPN's gains. Repeatedly, the two CABLE NOTES: South Park creators Matt Stone networks were compared: UPN's and Trey Parker said they'll pro- newly acquired muscle vs. WB's duce Family First, a live-action lack thereof. comedy that they promise will "That's the way life goes," says blaspheme whoever is the new Kellner. "Whenever something White House, for occupant of the bad happens, it's always a couple Comedy Central. It will start in of things that happen in a row. It February ... Lifetime ordered 30 The WB's new Gilmore Girls is averaging just builds character, and this net- more of Who Knows You episodes under 4 million viewers a lot Best ?, its daytime game show. and a 1.4 rating in work became stronger adults 18 -49 this because of last year." season.
26 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 Station Break
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KABC -TV FINED $25,000, was for failing to Alpert, who was badly burned FOR ALPERT ACCIDENT maintain proper clearance and lost parts of an arm and KABc -TV was hit with $30,000 when the 40 -foot mast went leg, continues to recuperate at in fines as a result of the May up. Other citations say train- a rehabilitation facility. accident that critically injured ing and warning signs inside reporter Adrienne Alpert, the truck were inadequate. ND MADISON when the mast on the ENG The station said it has SWITCHES COASTS Paula Madison is new president/GM and KNBC -TV Los truck in which was riding added signs within its trucks WNBC -TV New York News Angelles. struck electrical wires. and has added training ses- Director Paula Madison is the The station said it is review- sions. Bell, who lectures and new president and general president of diversity for all of ing the California Occupational writes about ENG van safety, manager of ItiBC -TV, NBC's NBC and will continue in that Safety and Health said that OSHA fines are fre- Los Angeles station, effective position. Earlier, she had been Administration fines -the quently reduced through immediately, the station said. executive news director at largest ever levied by such an appeals and through compli- She will report to NBC miou -Tv Houston.
agency, according to safety ance. "The fines are not meant Television Stations President WNBc has been No. 1 in expert Mark Bell-and reiter- to be punitive," he said. "The Jay Ireland. local newscasts for a year. ated its regret over Alpert's station is already hurt by the Madison joined the New injuries and its commitment "as accident both financially and York station as assistant news All news is local. Contact Dan always ... to ensuring the safety by loss of morale, by the loss director in 1989 and became Trigoboff at (301) 260 -0923, of our staff." of an employee." news director in 1996. Earlier e -mail [email protected], or fax The largest of the citations, Meanwhile, KABc -TV said this year, she was named vice (202) 463 -3742.
content and technology converge." -Jerry Kent, Charter Communications Programming WBBM drops Marin newscast
Two days after anchor wins Emmy, much admired experiment gets axed because of ratings
By Dan Trigoboff office at WBBM -TV as a full-time CBS corre- made at the station level. Even with Price at Ihe 10 O'Clock News: Reported by spondent for 60 Minutes and CBS News. the helm, according to insiders, the newscast Carol Marin was at once a low -rated Carl Gottlieb, deputy director for the probably had only through November to Chicago newscast and the most close- Project for Excellence in Journalism, said, attract an audience. ly watched newscast in the country. "Ultimately the viewers voted. ... [I]t takes DeHaven said that, when he got to WBBM- Launched in February to promising rat- more than trying to be PBS on CBS." Tv in July, "the numbers were in free -fall" but ings and favorable reviews, WBBM -TV's exper- With ratings dropping, that WBBM -TV decisions were put off while Craig Hume was imental back -to-basics program was broad- would "disband" the newscast was long ex- hired to replace Costello. DeHaven and cast last Monday night for the last time, two pected, probably since Price left the station Hume said they'd hoped to keep Marin on days after Marin won a local while making production and style Emmy. changes, such as a different set and While it existed, it carried the a co-anchor. "Carol decided she hopes and praise of journalists didn't want those changes," he said. around the country. CNN's Hume said the plan now is to Christiane Amanpour drew nods build on the remaining reporters' and applause at the Radio -Tele- They turned Carol ability to do hard, investigative sto- vision News Directors Association into Joan of Arc. ries without "doing a newscast that None of us want convention in September when the pundits to say is dry, hard and stem. We look this she said, "I don't dare ask how this quality doesn't as the beginning of the process." work; said Hank radical experiment is doing in the Price about Marin. Marin's immediate replace- ratings ... all my fingers and toes ments will be Linda MacLennan, are crossed." a former wsBM -TV late -news And last week, after it was over, anchor, and David Kerley, cur- former CBS icon Walter Cronkite, rently a weekend anchor. Kerley is "the most trusted man in considered a contender to co- America," lamented that Marin's anchor permanently-or at least failure was a result of the "dumb - as permanently as a big city ing down of the media" in a letter anchor's role can be. Asha Blake, to The New York Times. late of NBC's Later Today, is also a "We never claimed we had all the an- in July to run Hearst -Argyle's wxu-Tv in contender for a co -anchor spot, although swers," said Hank Price, the former WBBM -TV Winston- Salem, N.C. News Director Pat DeHaven said the station is not looking for general manager who persuaded Marin to Costello then left Chicago in August to run a "savior" anchor. return to local news from CBS network news the news at KING -TV and KONG -TV Seattle. Marin agreed that the quality of the news- three years after she had left rival station Anticipating change, Assistant News cast "can continue with or without me" but WMAQ -TV to protest the hiring of low -road Director Danice Kern and well-known that "I was not able to make some of the com- talkmeister Jerry Springer for commentaries. commentator John Callaway left last month. promises they felt would make it more view- "There was terrible pressure on Carol. They Price risked much of his own capital at er- friendly. When I finally agreed to do this turned Carol into Joan of Arc. None of us CBS to promote the newscast, particularly in newscast, it was to be heavily content- driven, want the pundits to say quality doesn't work." insisting just before the launch that the station lacking in some of the normal choreography. Marin commented before her final group's new news chief Joel Cheatwood- We decided it's best to part amicably. broadcast: "I'm sorry it didn't take off like a who had dashed with Marin at wMAQ -TV- "We all knew from the beginning that this shot. But I'm proud of the work we did. stay away from the newscast. Cheatwood has was a risk," she added, "but it was a risk The last eight months are some of the most advised the station since Price's departure, worth taking. I'm still glad we did it. I wish rewarding I've ever spent in a newsroom." but current General Manager Walt DeHaven we had a little more time to see if it would Marin, a Chicago news fixture, will keep her said decisions regarding the late news were stick."
28 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 Syndication Watch OCT. 16 -22 Syndicated programming ratings according to Nielsen Media Research
TOP 25 SHOWS
HH HH Rank /Program AA GAA Full court press by new entries 1 Wheel of Fortune 10.1 10.1 2 Jeopardy 8.2 8.2 Court- related series currently rule the roost among 3 Judge Judy 6.7 9.5 4 Oprah Winfrey Show 6.0 6.1 first -run rookies -Power of Attorney, Arrest & Triol and 5 Entertainment Tonight 5.5 5.6 Judge Hatchett are usually the top -three ratings grab- 6 Seinfeld 5.0 5.0 bers -and the new guys are apparently putting some 7 Wheel of Fortune (wknd) 5.0 5.0 8 Frasier 4.3 4.7 strain on the genre's veterans. 9 Andromeda 4.0 4.3 Just one returning court strip, Twentieth Television's 10 Judge Joe BTown 3.9 6.3 11 Hollywood Squares 3.6 3.7 Divorce Court, has bettered its performance over the 12 Live With Regis 3.6 3.6 comparable period last year. For the week ended Oct. 13 Divorce Court 3.3 4.3 14 Jerry Springer 3.2 3.5 22, according to Nielsen Media Research, Divorce Court 15 X -Files 3.2 3.5 nabbed a 3.3, a 14% jump over '99 and a 3% hop 16 Entertainme,t Tonight (wknd) 3.1 3.2 from 17 ER 3.0 3.5 the previous week. 18 3rd Rock From the Sun 3.0 3.2 "You can never underestimate the benefit of having 19 Maury 3.0 3.1 an early start," says Twentieth Executive Vice President 20 Inside Edition 3.0 3.0 21 Seinfeld (wknd) 3.0 3.0 and General Sales Manager Paul Franklin, who launched 22 Spin City 2.9 3.2 Divorce Court, as well as Power of Attomey (2.5, up 4% 23 Montel Williams Show 2.9 3.0 24 Xena 2.9 3.0 from the previous period and 19% over its debut) in Divorce Cou, t is the only old -timer 25 Friends (wkrd) 2.8 3.1 whose ratings improved over '99. August. 'That gave us two to three weeks of momen 26 Extra 2.8 2.8 tum" over the other court strips, which premiered in September and October.
TOP COURT SHOWS Franklin also notes Divorce Court's being slotted on stronger stations and better time periods
HH HH than last year -it recently won a third run on Fox 0 80 wrxF at 5:30 p.m.- "which shows why AA GAA we're building compared with others." 1 Judge Judy 6.7 9.5 2 Judge Joe Brown 3.9 6.3 Judge Judy still leads the field (6.7, up 3% from the previous week) but is down 11% from 3 Divorce Court 3.3 4.3 last year. First runner -up Judge Joe Brown (3.9, up 3 %) is flat from 1999. In worse shape, post- 4 Power of Attorney 2.5 3.0 5 Judge Mathis 2.0 2.0 ing double -digit percentage losses from last year, are People's Court (1 9), which has dropped 24% from 1999, and Judge Mills Lane (1.6), which has slumped 27 %. People's Court and Mills According to Nielsen Media Research, Syndication Lane are down 5% and 11 %, respectively, from the previous week. Other court vet, Greg Service Ranking Report Judge Oct. 16 -22, 2000 Mathis, has slipped 9% both from las: year's comparable period and from last week. HH /AA = Average Audience Rating (households) Following Power of Attomey, making the biggest inroad into the gavel circuit, is Judge Hotchett HH /GAA = Gross Aggregate Average One Nielsen rating = 1,008,000 households, which (1.9, down 10% from the previous week), Curtis Court (1.5, down 6 %) and Moral Court (0.8, up represents 1% of the 100.8 million TV Households in 14 %). Not straight court but carrying similar themes is Arrest & Trial (2.0, flat). -Susanne Ault the United States N/A = not available B roadcastWatch COMPILED BY KENNETH RAY OCT. 23 -29 Broadcast network prime time ratings according to Nielsen Media Research
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8:00 ,1. 20/20 Downtown 31. King of Queens 9.3/14 90. Daddio 3.7/6 135. Masters of Illusion 104. Moesha 2.3/4 28. Boston Public* 9.5/14 73. 7th Heaven 5.2/8 8 :30 8.3/14 34. Yes, Dear 8.9/13 96. Tucker 2.9/4 0.6/1 101. The Parkers 2.5/4
9:00 7. Ev Lys Raymd 13.0/19 122. Touched by an AngelAn 96. The Hughleys 2.9/4 12. NFL Monday Night 50. Deadline 4.8/7 31. Ally McBeal 9.3/13 94. Roswell 3.4 ,5 1.1/2 9:30 Football -Miami 18. Becker 11.7/17 104. Girlfriends 2.3/3 Dolphins vs. New 10:00 :19. Diagnosis Murder York 25. Family Law 10.0/16 46. Third Watch 7.4/12 Jets 12.1/21 .3/2 10.30 8.6/13 8.7/13 12.9/20 11.8/19 1.0/2 13/2 3.9/6
8:00 8. Who Wants to Be a 31. Mich Richards 9.3/15 43. MLB Pregame 8.2/14 133. Mysterious Ways 88. Buffy the Vampire 35. JAG 8.8/13 Millionaire? 12.7 19 0.7 1 118.118 UPN' s MovieM i Slayer 4.1 6 8:30 / 35. Rock fr /Sun 8.8/13 / Y / Tuesday -The 11. World Series Game 9:00 48. Dharma & Greg 7.3/11 122. Touched by an Angel Inspectors 1.5/2 1. 92. Angel 3.6/5 57.60 Minutes II 6.3/9 Frasier 18.9/28 3 -New York Yankees 2 9:30 67. Geena Davis 5.7/8 1 1 vs. New York Mets / MOO 12.4/21 122. Diagnosis Murder 51. Once and Again 6.6/11 22. Judging Amy 11.0/18 23. Dateline NBC 10.9/17 1.1/2 10:30 8.8/14 8.3/13 9.8/15 11.5/19 1.0/2 2.8/4 3.1/5
51. MLB Pregame &00 13. Who Wants to Be a 40. Bette 8.4/14 6.6/12 133. Twice in a Lifetime 68. Titans 5.6/9 104.7 Days 2.3/4 93. Dawson's Creek 3.5/6 80 Millionaire? 12.0/19 55. Welcome /NY 6.4/10
9:00 38. Drew Carey 8.1 13 World Series Game Y / 14. The West Wing 120. Touched by an Angel 95. Star Trek: Voyager York Yankees g9. FelicityY 2.7j4 35. CBS Wednesday 4 -New 3.2/5 9:30 46. Spin City 7.4/11 11.9/18 1.2/2 Night-One True Love vs. New York Mets 10:00 57. Gideon's Crossing 8.8/14 12.5/21 126. Diagnosis Murder 15. Law & Order 11.8/19 10:30 6.3/10 1.0/2 7.7/12 6.3/10 14.0/22 11.5/18 1.1/2 4.7/7 3.5/5
8:00 11. Whose Line Is It 5.3/9 3. Friends 14.7/24 65. MLB Pregame 6.0/11 50.48 Hours 7.0/11 126. It's a Miracle 1.0/2 100. Gilmore Girls 2.6/4 8:30 59. Whose Line Is It 6.2/9 15. Cursed* 11.8/18 80. WWF Smackdown! World Series Game 4.7/7 9:00 20. Who Wants to Be a 15. Will & Grace 11.8 17 126. TouchedT by an Angel / 85. Charmed 4.3 6 69. City of AngelsAn 5.5 8 5 -New York Yankees 9;30 Millionaire? 11.1 /16 tY / 24. Just Shoot Me 10.6/16 1.0/2 / vs. New York Mets 10:00 55. Diagnosis Murder 13.1/21 120. Diagnosis Murder 59. Primetime 6.2/10 2. ER 17.6/28 10:30 6.4/10 1 2/2 5.2/10 8.0/15 8.7/16 2.2/4 1.0/2 2.2/4 2.0/4
8:00 80. Two Guys a Girl 4.7,/9 130. Encounters With the 102. Sabrina /Witch 2.4/5 62. The Fugitive 6.1/12 39. Providence 8.5/16 (nr) You Decide 102. Freedom* 2.4/5 Unexplained 0.9/22 8:30 89. Trouble /Normal 4.0/8 Unex P 0.9 117. Grosse Pointe 1.7/3
9:00 86. Norm 4.2/8 126. Touched by an Angel 110. Sabrina /Witch 2.42/4 27. C.S.I. 9.8/17 44. Dateline NBC 8.1/14 110. Freakylinks 2.2/4 114. Level 9 2.0/4 9:30 84. Madigan Men 4.4/8 1.0/2 116. Nikki 1.9/3
10:00 30. Law & Order: Special 122. Diagnosis Murder 49. 20/20 7.1/13 44. Nash Bridges 8.1/15 Victims Unitt 9.4/17 1.1/2
4.1/8 6.9/13 6.1/11 5.3/10 0.5/1 KEY: RANKING/SHOW TITLE /PROGRAM RATING /SHARE
TEN OF THE WEEK ARE NUMBERED IN RED 8:00 71. Cops 5.3/10 139. Masters of Illusion TOP SHOWS 76. That's Life 4.9/9 UNIVERSE ESTIMATED AT 102.2 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS; 90. ABC Saturday Night N 8,30 69. Cops 5.5/10 0.4/1 Movie- Vampire in ONE RATINGS POINT IS EQUAL TO 1,022,000 N HOMES 62. NBC Saturday Ni ht 9 73. Cops 5.2/10 YELLOW TINT IS WINNER OF TIME SLOT (NR) =NOT 9:00 Brooklyn 3.7/7 59. Walker, Texas Ranger 137. Twice in a Lifetime Movies- Maverick RANKED; RATING /SHARE ESTIMATED FOR PERIOD SHOWN 0.5 1 9:30 6.2 11 75. 5.1/9 / 6.1/11 Cops / *PREMIERE PROGRAMS LESS THAN 15 MINUTES IN
10:00 76. World's Scariest 137. Mysterious Ways LENGTH NOT SHOWN S -T -D = SEASON TO DATE 28. The District 9.5/17 4.9/9 SOURCES: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, CBS RESEARCH 10:30 Ghosts 0.5/1 9.6/15 11.6/18 5.8/9 4.9/8 0.7/1 2.2/3
7:00 (nr) NFL Game 2 14.6/25 95. Futurama 3.3/5 130. Encounters With the 110. Jamie Foxx 2.2/4 62. Dateline NBC 6.1/10 UnexplainedP 0.9/1 104. For Your Love 2.3 4 54. ABC Sunday Picture 78. Kingg of the Hill 4.8/8 / 0 4.60 Minutes 13.1/20 Show -Casper 6.5/10 51. The Simpsons 6.6/10 104. Steve Harvey 2.3/3 41. Ed 8.3/12 130. It's a Miracle 0.9/1 PJs 2.0/3 19. Touched by an Angel 66. Malcolm /Middle 5.9/9 114. The 11.3/17 104. Hype 2.3/3 4. Who Wants to Be a 82. The X -Files 4.5/7 82. NBC Sunday Night Millionaire? 13.1/ 20 135. Pax Big Event 110. Nikki 2.2/3 Movie -The Relic - 26. CBS Sunday Movie- Awake Danger 0.5/1 10:00 to Dance 4.5/7 9. The Practice 12.5/21 The Last 6.9/11 10:30
*WEEK 8.0/13 8.7/14 8.8/14 8.9/14 0.9/1 2.7/4 3.1/5 a 4.0 8.9/15 8.9/15 8.4/14 7.2/12 0.9/1 2.9/5 3.0/5
30 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 Cable Watch OCT. 23-29 Cable programing ratings according to Nielsen Media Research
C A B L E ' S T O P 20
Following are the top 20 basic cable programs ranked by ratings. Cable rating is coverage area rating within each basic cable network's universe. U.S. rating is of 100.6 million TV households. Cable share is the program's percentage of cable households using television. Sources: NieLsen Media Research, Turner
Ratings HHs Cable Rank Program Network Day Time Duration Cable U.S. (000) Share 1 NFL /Raiders/Chargers ESPN Sun 8:28P 197 7.4 5.9 5867 11.5 2 WWF Entertainment TNN Mon 10:00P 69 5.0 4.7 4696 9.5 3 WWF Entertainment TNN Mon 9:00P 60 5.0 3.9 3902 6.9 4 NFL Primetime ESPN Sun 7:30P 58 4.3 3.4 3401 6.5 5 m¡ "Spawn" TBS Sun 8:00P 120 3.5 2.8 2811 5.0 6 Rug rats NICK Sat 9:30A 30 3.4 2.7 2691 10.6 7 Rug rats NICK Sun 9:OOA 30 3.1 2.4 2419 8.4 7 Dragon Ball Z TOON Wed 5:00P 30 3.1 2.0 2060 7.6 9 Rocket Power NICK Sun 8:30A 30 3.0 2.4 2405 9.0 9 Rugrats NICK Sun 9:30A 30 3.0 2.3 2329 8.0 9 Dragonball Z TOON Tue 5:00P 30 3.0 2.0 2014 7.2 12 NFL Sportscenter ESPN Sun 11:45P 60 2.9 2.3 2318 8.0 12 Rug rats NICK Sat 9:OOA 30 2.9 2.3 2317 9.7 12 Spongebob NICK Sat 10:OOA 30 2.9 2.3 2282 8.9 12 Spongebob NICK Sat 10:30A 30 2.9 2.3 2266 8.8 12 Dragonball Z TOON Fri 5:00P 30 2.9 1.9 1922 7.2 17 Rug rats NICK Mon 7:30P 30 2.8 2.2 2246 4.6 17 Rug rats NICK Thu 7:30P 30 2.8 2.2 2239 4.8 17 Rocket Power NICK Sun 8:OOA 30 2.8 2.2 2190 9.2 17 Rugrats NICK Wed 7:30P 30 2.8 2.1 2177 4.0
D E M O T R A C K E R : M A L E S 2 5- 5 4
Following are the top 10 oasic cable programs by demographic for the week of Oct. 23 -29, ranked by ratings. Source: Fox Family Channel.
Ratings HHs Cable Rank Program Network Day Time Duration Cable U.S. (000) Share 1 NFL Regular Seasoi ESPN Sun 8:28P 197 7.6 6.1 3552 16.6 2 NFL Primetime ESPN Sun 7:30P 58 4.8 3.8 2222 10.3 3 WWF Entertainment TNN Mon 10:OOP 69 4.6 3.6 2125 10.8 4 WWF Entertainment TNN Mon 9:00P 60 3.9 3.1 1813 7.8 5 m / "Spawn" TBS Sun 8:00P 120 2.9 2.3 1353 5.7 6 NFL Sportscenter ESPN Sun 11:45P 60 2.8 2.2 1293 10.7 7 WCW Monday Nitro Live! TNT Mon 8:00P 60 2.5 2 1171 5.9 8 m/"Rudy" TBS Sat 8:05P 147 2.1 1.7 970 5.8 8 NFL Countdown ESPN Sun 11:OOA 120 2.1 1.7 982 9 10 m /'Spawn" TBS Sun 10:00P 120 2 1.6 928 4.9
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Clear Channel, among others, is said to be eyeing Univision
Pappas expects Spanish- language market to By Steve McClellan Hispanic Broadcasting Corp., the largest grow 15% a year for the foreseeable future. Is Clear Channel preparing to buy U.S. Spanish -language radio broadcaster. Univision? Sources say Clear Channel Some wonder whether if stake might be and not Hispanics control Hispanic
would love to add the nation's No. 1 a hindrance at regulatory- approval time if Broadcasting. Spanish -language network to its portfolio Clear Channel tries to buy Univision. If the One thing is certain, sources say: When of media assets. But last week, despite spec- Democrats retain the White House, many Univision does go on the block, "the bid- ulation to the contrary, there didn't appear believe, both the FCC and Department of ding will be vigorous," as one Wall Street to be any ongoing acquisition talks between Justice would move to nix the deal on analyst puts it. "All the big media companies the two companies. antitrust grounds -especially since Anglos will at least kick the tires," says another. It's very likely that, when Univision chairman Jerry Perenchio decides to sell- and many believe it's just a matter of time - there will be many interested parties. After all, the U.S. Hispanic community is the CBS seeing $150M fastest -growing segment of the population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Super Bowl Sunday and 'Survivor II' have top brass Hispanic sector will be largest minority dreaming of golden ratings and revenue group by 2005 and is projected to reach 42.4 million by 2010. By Richard Tedesco lion sponsorship packages, according to ad Hispanics now have spending power CBS is expecting a big Super Bowl agency sources. Most of the inventory will estimated at close to $400 billion annually. Sunday, to the tune of more than go to those sponsors, including such nota- Currently, Spanish -language TV advertis- $150 million in ad sales, as it also bles as Anheuser-Busch, General Motors, ing in the U.S. is about $1 billion. Pappas reels in sponsors for Survivor II. Target, Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Visa and Reebok. Broadcasting's Harry Pappas expects that The inventory for both the Super Bowl In an age of fragmented TV viewing, the market grow at an annual clip of 15 % for and the son of Survivor is 80% sold, Super Bowl looms larger than ever, topping the foreseeable future. according to CBS Network Sales President other big sports events. "In today's com- And Pappas has done his homework. Joe Abruzzese, who expects the Super pressed- time society, viewers are opting out of Two months ago, he and TV Azteca, the Bowl to be 90% sold by Thanksgiving. the long -time commitments for the Olympics Mexico -based broadcaster, announced CBS already has reason to give thanks, sell- or the World Series," says John Rash, senior plans to launch a third U.S. Hispanic TV ing 30- second spots for $2.3 million or $2.4 vice president at Campbell Mithun Esty. "The network by second quarter 2001. million each, he says. Super Bowl is only four or five hours, and it's As to reports that Clear Channel wants to So CBS expects to top the $130 million become an unofficial national holiday." buy Univision, Pappas hopes they're true. ABC took in on the big game last January at Last January, it was also an unofficial "That would have positive impact" on his $22 million per spot and approach the $155 platform for emerging dotcoms making a own plans, he said, as another indication of million Fox pulled in with an all -day Super splash with pricey spots. Today, nose -diving just how attractive the Hispanic business is Sunday extravaganza in 1999. "If you add in Web stocks are producing a different pic- to mainstream media companies. Survivor, we'll surpass what ABC did," says ture: CBS has sold Super Bowl time to only Clear Channel has already shown a keen Abruzzese. six dotcoms thus far and expects 10 to be in interest in this market with its 26% stake in For Survivor II, CBS is pushing $12 mil- the mix, compared with 19 last January.
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capital market's distaste for tech compa- nies like his, saying it is fully funded to Strong 3Q for cable complete everything on its plate. McCourt's comments came after the Cox, Charter post big cash-flow and revenue gains cable and phone overbuilder posted financial results for the third quarter, with By John M. Higgins MSO posted revenue growth of 14% for the strong growth in many operating cate- Avoiding a rerun of last summer's three months ended September, to $842.9 gories and cash -flow losses surging as earnings -induced stock shock, Cox million, while cash flow rose expected. Communications delivered the dou- 20 %, to $400.6 million. While the market for tele- ble -digit cash -flow growth its executives The strong performance com junk bonds has tanked have been promising. For the third quarter was due only in small part to and RCN's stock price has ended September, Cox's total revenues improvement in the operation dropped 65 %, McCourt said increased 12% to $902 million. of systems bought recently. that he's not worried about rais- However, that includes sales from new Charter's older systems saw ing money, because his plans businesses, including telephone and data. revenues rise 13 % and cash are fully funded with borrow- Its video business-even including relative- flow climb 19 %, a pace just ings and equity investments Chairman James Robbins ly new digital cable sales-grew just 6% slightly slower than systems reported that Cox over the past year. "RCN won't Communications' total over the same period last year. acquired recently from start building something it revenue rose 12% and cash Still, cash flow grew 12 %, to $354 mil- Falcon Communications and flow also increased 12 ° /e. doesn't have the capital to fin- lion, much better than the 8% the compa- Bresnan Communications. ish," he told securities analysts. ny posted in the second quarter. That 8% Charter is also adding basic customers at "That means finish to profitability." sent Cox's stock spinning downward, the rate of 2.7% annualized. That was After spending $1.2 billion to build because Cox Chairman James Robbins had about a percentage point systems in 2000, RCN been promising strong double -digit gains. faster than the industry will have about $2.7 bil- Charter Cox's stock price did dip a bit last average but slower than lion in cash and credit week, in part because capital spending is its own pace last year. Communicar_ions blew facilities on hand. growing rapidly. The downside is that Even without revenue away its peers with McCourt and CFO Tim Cox's capital spending, standing at $2 bil- from new products, Stoklosa said the com- lion, is going to continue running high as Charter's revenues would 14% growth in pany is in the midst of the company increases the pace of have grown more than revenue and a 200/0 reviewing operating and rebuilds. Investors had been expecting 11%. Chairman Jerry capital- spending plans hike in cash flow. capital spending to slow. Cox's stock Kent said the company for 2001 and could slipped 3%, to $42.75. "has exceeded even our make some tweaks in Charter Communications again blew most optimistic expectations." the plan. McCourt would not project away its peers. Even after adjusting for its RCN Chairman David McCourt mini- results for 2001 other than to say that neg- many acquisitions over the past year, the mized the threat to his company from the ative cash flow will significantly decline.
On WSBK at 5:00pm, Ricki Lake delive the time period's best rating in 7 years! Sweep Show HH Rtg. Oct. 2000 RICKI LAKE 2.9 Oct. 1999 Ricki Lake 2.1 Oct. 1998 Judge Joe Brown block 2.1 Oct. 1997 Saved By The Bell /Step By Step Step COLUMBIA TRISTAR Oct. 1996 By Step /Blossom -.0 '1 Oct. 1995 Step By Step/Blossom 1.6 4®
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KZJL -TV COMBOS adult standards; wrsx: oldies Swap of WEEX(AM) -WODE -FM Easton/ Broker: Serafin Bros. Inc. Houston, Texas Allentown, Pa., for WHCY(FM) KMIN(AM) -KAIU(FM) Grants/Gallup, N.M. from Btairstown /Sussex, WSUS(FM) Franklin/ Price: $145,000 Shop at Home, Inc. Sussex and WNNJ -AM -FM Newton/ Buyer. KD Radio Inc., Los Angeles Sussex, N.J., and LMA /option to acquire (Derek Underhill, president/owner); no Kent Lillie WDLC(AM) -WTSX(FM) Port Jervis, N.Y. other broadcast interests President and CEO Value: $32 million (includes $12 million Seller: Palmer Radio LLC, Salt Lake City to cash being paid by swapper of WEEx- (Gaylen C. Palmer, president); no other WODE and $2 million for WDLC -WTSX broadcast interests. Note: Palmer bought Liberman option) stations for $28,333 (Changing Hands, Broadcasting, Inc. Swapper, WEEX-WORE: Clear Channel May 10, 1999) Lenard Liberman Communications Inc., San Antonio (L. Facilities: AM: 980 kHz, 1 kW; FM: 92.7 Lowry Mays, chairman; Randy Michaels, MHz, 1.7 kW, ant. 230 ft. Vice President chairman, Clear Channel Radio); owns /is Formats: AM: oldies; FM: AC for buying 19 TVs and at least 1,115 other $57,000,000. radio stations FMs Swapper, other stations: Nassau WWR(FM) Hopkinsville, Ky./ Broadcasting Partners LP, Princeton, NJ. Clarksville, Tenn. Brian E. Cobb (Louis F. Mercatanti Jr., president); owns/ Price: $7 million (includes $1 million of and operates 19 other radio stations buyer's stock) Facilities: WEEX: 1230 kHz, 800 W day, i Buyer. Saga Communications Inc., Grosse Elliot B. Evers kW night; WODE -FM: 99.9 MHz, 50 kW, Pointe Farms, Mich. (Edward K. Christian, represented ant. 449 ft.; WHCY: 106.3 MHz, 400 W, president/11.5% owner); owns/is buying Shop at Home. ant. 860 ft.; WSUS: 102.3 MHz, 600 W, ant. three TVs, 34 other FMs and 21 AMs, 745 ft.; WNNJ(AM): 1360 kHz, 2 kW day, including WDXN(AM) Clarksville, 320 W night; WNNJ -FM: 103.7 MHz, 2.3 WABD(AM)- WCVQ(FM) Fort Campbell, Ky./ kW, ant. 892 ft.; WDLC: 1490 kHz, 1 kW; Hopkinsville/Clarksville and construction WTSX: 96.7 MHz, 3 kW, ant. 300 ft. permit to build FM in Hopkinsville/ Formats: WEEX: news /talk; WODE -FM: Hands, Oct. 30); BRIAN E. COBB Clarksville (Changing 202 -478 -3737 oldies; WHCY: CHR; WsuS: AC; WNNJ(AM): has time brokerage agreement with nostalgia; WNNJ -FM: classic hits; WDLC: Kvcr(TBV) Victoria, Texas CHARLES E. GIDDENS Seller. WRUS Inc., Augusta, Ga. (Donald 941 -514 -3375 J. Alt and Kerby E. Coder, each 35% ELLIOT B. EVERS Trade owners). Alt and Confer own/are buying/ have interest in 32 FMs and 18 AMs 415- 391 -4877 By dollar volume and number of sales; does not include mergers or acquisitions Facilities: 100.3 MHz, 100 kW, ant. TELCOM GROUP involving substantial non -station assets 1,000 ft. Format: Country GREG D. WIDROE THIS WEEK JASON D. HILL WXQL(FM) Baldwin /Jacksonville, Fla. 415-391-4877 TV /Radio $0 0 Price: $1.5 million TVs D$000 Buyer Tama Group Ltd., Daytona RADIO TELEVISION TELCOM Combos $32,145,000 0 2 Beach, Fla. (Charles W. Cherry II and M&A INVESTMENT BANKING FMs 0 $10,524,800 D 5 Glenn W. Cherry, both members /man- AMs 0 $795,000 0 4 agers); owns WPUL(AM) Daytona Beach WTMP(AM) Tampa, Fla., and Total 0 $43,464,800 0 11 and WHYz(AM) Greenville, S.C. ivi Seller: Peaches Broadcasting Ltd., Detroit (Lawrence P. Doss, president); no other TV /Radio $2,133,450 0 1 broadcast interests TVs $559,480,139 0 17 kV Facilities: 105.7 MHz, 6 kW, ant. 328 ft. Combos 0 $3,438,900,717 0 76 Format: Beautiful music MEDIA VENTURE FMs $526,967,568 D 111 Broker: Minority Media and PARTNERS AMs 0 $140,007,885 D 81 Telecommunications Council Total $4,667,555,759 0 286 KROR(FM) Hastings, Neb. Price: $750,000
36 Broadcasting & Cable /11 -6 -00 Changing Hands
Buyer: Eternal Broadcasting LLC, KZBL Format: All sports Lincoln, Neb. (Dean Sorenson, presi- Facilities: 100.7 MHz, 3 kW, ant. 299 ft. Broker: Jerry Johnson (seller) dent/51% owner). Sorenson owns 70% of Format :, AC WKTF (formerly WWWN) Vienna, Ga. Sorenson Broadcasting Corp., which owns Broker: Media Services Group Inc. (seller) Price: $125,000 10 FMs and seven AMs, none in Buyer: DANA Communications Inc., Nebraska. Note: Some operating capital AMs Gloucester, Mass. (co- owners David J. for KROR will be provided by market com- WSJC Magee, Miss. and Nancy Adams); no other broadcast petitor Waitt Radio Inc. Price: $415,000 interests Seller: Three Eagles Communications Buyer: Family Talk Radio, Loma Linda, Seller: Sundance Communications Inc., Inc., Lincoln (Rolland C. Johnson, chair - Calif. (Linda DeRomanett, president); Clearwater, Fla. (Arthur Grimshaw, presi- man/18% owner); owns /is buying 21 FMs owns WBAJ(AM) Blythewood, S.C. dent); no other broadcast interests. Note: and 11 AMs. Johnson and wife, Paula A., Seller: Eileen Shaffer Bailey, Jackson, Sundance acquired station in 1999 for co -own KVRH -AM -FM Salida, Colo. Miss. (attorney for trustee) same price Facilities: 101.5 MHz, 50 kW, ant. 265 ft. Facilities: 810 kHz, 50 kW day, 500 W Facilities: 1550 kHz, 1 kW day, 23 W Format: Classic rock night night KMSR(FM) Sauk Centre, Minn. Format: Dark Format: Today's country Price: $700,000 Broker: Connelly Co. Broker: BuySellRadio Online ( seller) Buyer: BDI Broadcasting Inc., Bemidji, KSFS Sioux Falls, S.D. WBZB Selma, N.C. Minn. (Louis H. Buron Jr., president/ Price: $155,000 Price: $100,000 owner); owns KIKV -FM Alexandria and Buyer: LA Skywave Inc., Sioux Falls (Lee Buyer. Wallace Edward Akehurst, KBPQ(FM) Nisswa, Minn. Buron also owns O. Axdahl, president/owner); owns Monkton, Md.; no other broadcast four FMs and one AM and 75% of anoth- KSOB(FM) Dell Rapids /Sioux Falls and interests er two FMs, all in Minnesota KSQB(FM) Flandreau/Sioux Falls, S.D. Seller: C &J Broadcasting Inc., Selma Seller: Main Street Broadcasting Inc., Seller: CGN Corp., Milbank, S.D. (Roger (James L. and M. Comellia Massengill, Mankato, Minn. (John Linder, president). Kuhlmann, chairman); owns KCGN -FM principals); no other broadcast interests Linder owns eight FMs and two AMs and Milbank Facilities: 1090 kHz, 1 kW day 80% of another AM, all in Minnesota. Facilities: 1520 kHz, 10 kW day, 5 kW Format: Country, talk Note: This amends earlier $200,000 deal night -Complied by Elizabeth A. Rathbun for KMSR (Changing Hands, Jan. 21) Facilities: 94.3 MHz, 3 kW, ant. 286 ft. Format: Dark AN INDIRECT AFFILIATE OF Construction permit to build FM in Spooner /Shell Lake, Wis. (near Duluth, Minn.) AZTECA AMERICA Price: $439,000 has acquired Buyer. Zoe Communications Inc., Shell Lake (co- owners George R Manus and Michael John Oberg); owns WcsW(AM)- KS WIT V WGMO FM Shell Lake Yuma, Arizona Seller: Betty Lutz, Shell Lake; no other broadcast interests from Facilities: 106.3 MHz KZBL(FM) Natchitoches, La. ECLIPSE MEDIA, LLC Price: Up to $335,800 (includes up to for $10,800 worth of advertising and $10,000 noncompete agreement) Buyer: Baldridge -Dumas Communications $5,350,000 Inc., Many, La. (Tedd W. Dumas, vice president/50% owner); owns KWLA(AM)- The unders gned acted as exclusive broker KWLv(FM) Many; is buying KTHP(FM) in this transaction and assisted in the negotiations. Hemphill, Texas, and construction permit for new FM in South Fort Polk, La. Note: KZBL earlier was reported sold to Baldridge -Dumas for $400,000 (Changing Hands, June 7, 1999) Seller: Bundrick Communications Inc., Natchitoches (Hal M. Bundrick, presi- dent); no other broadcast interests. Note: Advertising comprises up to $300 per Kalil & Co., Inc. month for three years on KWLA -KWLV or 3444 North Country Club Tucson, Arizona 85716 (520) 795 -1050 Advertising
Consolidation hits ad reps, too
Clients show little alarm as Petty Media completely merges Petty and Blair
By Steve McClellan don, as usual, has to do with the bottom served in the same market, different exec- Ien years ago, when the advertising line. TV station groups nationwide have utives consult each station. And the rep -firm business began to consoli- consolidated, and the bigger groups have Chinese Wall still exists with regard to date, there was a lot of concern forced the reps to lower their commission proprietary local program information, among TV stations about possible con- rates or even go into partnership with them. Losak insists. flicts arising when two co -owned reps According to rep and station sources, Other reps agree. "At one point, it prob- served multiple stations in the same mar- commission rates for national spot adver- ably made sense that everything was totally ket. The worst fear: that tising, which a decade ago separate," says Katz Television Vice billing and programming were typically 15 %, are now President, Programming, Bill Carroll, who information might be inap- less than 10% and, for some oversees the programming departments at propriately shared with com- larger groups, as low as 6 %. the three Katz -owned rep subsidiaries. peting stations. Some groups have even "But now there are huge amounts of infor- The response by the rep firm demanded a piece of the mation, and it has to be distilled, and it consolidators -Cox (Telerep, action. Fox, for example, has makes more sense to do that in a more cen- MMT and HRP), Petry Media formed a partnership with tralized fashion. (Petry and Blair) and Katz Petty. The Post - Newsweek "But, once you've done that, you're Garnett Losak w ill oversee Media (Millennium, Eagle and the united Pe try -Blair stations formed a co- venture talking about how you interpret that infor- Katz Television) -was to programming de partment. with Cox's MMT. mation, and that's where the individuals ensure that church- and -state- At Petry- Blair, Losak and their skill and their working relation- like separations were maintained between argues that the merged programming ship with the station and knowledge of the their co -owned but vigorously competitive department will actually provide better ser- market come into play. That's the part of rep subsidiaries. By and large, station clients vice to stations while being more economi- the process that remains separate." accepted those responses. cally efficient. In effect, Stations also seem Over time, however, those Chinese she says, four heads are less concerned now that As TV station groups Walls have eroded. It started with back- better than two. That is, dual representation has office functions, such as accounting and four programming exec- have combined, the been a fact of life in human resources. More recently, there has utives who directly con- bigger groups have many markets for a been some consolidation among co-owned sult TV stations can now number of years. forced reps to lower programming departments. But last week, jointly dissect program- "I don't think it's an Petry Media executives confirm, consoli- ming trends and ex- commission rates, even issue. People handle it dation has gone a step further, with the change ideas on what go into partnership professionally, and I've complete merging of the programming the trends mean. not experienced a prob- departments of Blair Television and Petry "What Petty has with them. lem," says Don Loy,
Television to service the needs of the 200 - done has put the operations manager at plus station clients. emphasis on the people talking to TV sta- WROC -TV, one of three Rochester, N.Y. - Garnett Losak, who had been in charge tions," she says. "There's been no reduc- market stations represented by Petry or of Blair's programming department, will tion there." One program - analyst position co -owned Blair. now oversee the merged Petry-Blair pro- has been eliminated. And now, instead of One high -level station -group executive gramming department. Her counterpart at receiving separate sets of largely redundant said the reps have to make such moves in Petty was Dick Kurlander, who resigned weekly programming information, Blair order to survive. "It's a tough low- margin last summer after 15 years with the firm. and Petry clients will receive a single set. business, but I trust my rep. It's a critical The reason for the continuing consolida- In cases where multiple stations are business that won't go away."
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By Ken Kerschbaumer "We knew there were a lot of This tine, it's personal" is music -award shows so we had to a great tag line for an come out with something that was action sequel, but, on current and up- to- the -minute," Nov 30, it will also be fitting explains Jeff Gaspin, VH1 execu- for VH1, which will broad- tive vice president, programming cast the My VH1 Music and production. "And we felt that, Awards, an awards show with music being such a part of the Jon Bon Jovi will probably be voted into whose winners are Internet, an some winning category-via the Internet -by chosen by online awards show that loyal fans of VH1. voting rather than M uric Atoarà5 had convergence backroom politick- would help make we have for the show," he says. "The cate- ing. it distinct." gories are what people talk about, not just Of course, television needs another The show could already be called an what record executives say in the back - music awards show like Britney Spears Internet success: The call for categories room." needs a degree in molecular biology, so attracted more than 65,000 entries, with 25 With the categories and nominees VH1 executives had to figure out how they categories selected. Many of the sugges- sorted out (voting began Oct. 20 at could do a music - related awards show that tions were redundant, but there were a www.vhl.com), it's time to start tallying the went beyond the trendiness of the VH1 number of gems that, Gaspin says, point to votes. That is a technically straightforward Fashion Awards. That's where the trendi- the reason for having greater fan and view- process, according to Fred Graver, senior est, most -hyped medium ever, the Internet, er involvement. For example, there's the vice president, VH -1 Group, which in- came in, allowing viewers to pick the cate- `This Song Kicked Ass But Was Played Too cludes VH1.com, Sonicnet.com and gories, choose the nominees and crown the Damn Much" category. Country.com. winners. "That category sums up the sensibility "It's just a voting and polling engine," he
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says. "And people will be able to vote until won't be as much appointment viewing for TOP TV NEWS SITES the last minute. When you vote, you can the VH1 viewer, so the interactivity push at September 2000 Ranked according to time spent see the percentages of the overall vote. VH i will focus more on a big event that Avg. minutes spent About 10 days before the show, we'll take can build up over time rather than a daily SITE on the site 1 CNBC.com 35.6 in into program like MTV's Direct Effect or Total that feature and make them tune the 2 CNN.com 28.2 show to see who won." Request Live (TRL). 3 Bloomberg.com 27.0 Giving the viewer ongoing totals, "The Internet channel and the on -air 4 ABC News* 18.9 5 MSNBC.com 18.7 Graver believes, will spur fan groups and channel both drive the viewer to the voting 6 NNFN.com* 17.1 online groups and Web sites dedicated to procedure," he explains. "And the voting 7 FoxNews.com 8.2 8 CBS.com sites* 6.2
artists to help out with publicity. "We procedure drives the viewer to the awards 9 WebFN.com hope to get the fan clubs, no pun intend- show." 10CBSNews.com Total WWW 700.6 ed, fanning the flames of the The online voting will con- Source: Media Metrix vote. One of the questions tribute to the drama of the = Statistically insignificant traffic that came up when we were show itself. Award presenters first developing it was, what if will be able to tell viewers that TOP CABLE TV SITES September 2000 200,000 people vote Phish the voting has closed seconds Ranked according to time spent in? But if 200,000 people say before the award is present- Avg. minutes spent they'll watch if we put their ed. SITE on the site 1 ESPN* 49.6 favorite band on, we'll take "We're not going to pro- 2 CNBC.com 35.6 it." duce our winner packages the 3 CNN.com 28.2 VH1's Jeff Gaspin: "We felt 4 CartoonNutwork.com 23.7 VH1 is expecting about 2 that, with music being such same way as other shows," 5 MSNBC.com 18.7 a part of the Internet, an million votes, a total in line Graver says. "It'll be more 6 NBCi* 16.7 awards show that had 7 Scifi.com 16.5 help with that for the MTV Music convergence would like the Academy Awards, 8 FoodTV.com 15.6 make it distinct." Awards, which offers viewers where you have a little bit of 9 PBS.org 11.1 10 Weather.com 10.1 a for everybody, and we'll the chance to vote online on tape 11 TVLand.com 9.3 single category. just roll that tape. But we won't have an 12 CourtTV.com 9.1 13 ABC* 9.1 Of course, the VH1 viewer is older than elaborate package." 14 HGTV.coir 8.6 the typical MTV viewer, but Graver Four Web cams will also be incorporat- 15 Discovery.com 8.4 8.3 believes that is just fine as far as driving ed into the broadcast, allowing viewers to 16 EOnline.com 17 FoxNews.com 8.2 turnout. "The 25 -plus market still makes catch different action online. One will be in 18 MTV.com 7.8 up more of the population than the under - the pressroom, one on the podium, a third 19 HistoryChannel.com 7.4 20 TheWB.com 6.9 25 crowd, and it's the fastest -growing on the red carpet outside and the fourth in Total WWW 700.6
group on the Internet," he says. "The the production truck for budding produc- Source: Media Metrix Internet is certainly becoming a larger part ers. * Represents an aggregation of commonly owned /brand- ed domain names. of their lives, especially with women." If all works, Graver expects to take the Media Metrix definitions: Like its flashier brethren, VH1 is online- voting format over to TNN for one Average minutes spent per usage month: The average total number of minutes spent on the Web site during wrestling with the relationship among on- of its country-music awards programs. "I'm the month, per visiting person. Approximately 55,000 individuals through- and life in the looking forward to that, because country Sample size: air content, online content, out the U.S. participate in the Media Metrix sample. broadband age. Graver, however, says there fans are so passionate and rabid." remotely possible. commerce.tv Interactive Media INBRIEF Is the Web losing its
ASK JEEVES FOR STREAMSEARCH StreamSearch, an online guide to leisure -time appeal? streaming media, will now be available through Ask Jeeves and PricewaterhouseCoopers report says consumers are spending the Ask.com Web site. StreamSearch currently boasts a less time on the Internet, more time with the family multimedia database of more than 2 million streaming and By Ken Kerschbaumer to do so, 17% reported that they don't downloadable audio and video If a PricewaterhouseCoopers Con- understand how, and 11% said it takes too files. The database of multimedia sumer Technology study is to be be- long to download or search. files increases by 25,000 to lieved, Web surfers are spending less On the flip side, of those 11% who do 50,000 links per week and is time surfing and more time watching the stream videos, 75% find it easy to do. projected to exceed 5 million in waves, spending time with their families, or However, 60% of them also said they would 2001. engaging in other leisure activities. not do it if they were required to pay for SPICE GIRLS GET "What shocked me about this year's sur- downloads. STREAMY vey is that, last year, the average person So why are people visiting the Internet? RealNetworks is helping Virgin spent five hours a week on the Internet for The two top reasons reported by respondents Records and the Spice Girls bring non -business reasons and, this year, they're by far are research (90% of those surveyed) streaming videos to their latest spending four," says Michael Kelly, enter- and e-mail (89 %). Shopping was next at 42% album, Forever. The enhanced CD tainment and media partner at Price- while interactive entertainment like gaming will feature two streaming waterhouseCoopers. "But I think one rea- was listed by 37% of users. videos, viewable exclusively through RealPlayer, with the son for that might be that people are Another surprising aspect of the consumer videos encoded in RealVideo 8. becoming more proficient study, Kelly found, was the To access the enhanced portion with the Internet and are question of where time Only 11% of of the specially marked Spice also using it primarily for e- would be spent in lieu of surf- Girls CD, users place the music mail." respondents stream ing the Internet. CD into the CD -ROM drive of One finding suggests that The percentage of people their computer. videos, and 600/0 of the broadband industry has who would spend that time those wouldn't do it CLEANING UP STREAMS more selling to do if it ex- watching TV was only 27%, Media 100 has launched Cleaner pects to continue an effective if they had to pay. down 11% from 1999. The 5: RealSystem Edition, encoding rollout in the United States. biggest gainer was spending and design software developed With regard to demand for broadband, time with the family, with 8% of respondents to support RealNetworks' 85 % of those surveyed said they use nor- saying that they would spend that time with RealAudio 8 and RealVideo 8. mal telephone lines for Internet access. their family, a 5% jump over last year's re- The customized version of Among those users, the top complaint sponse. Cleaner 5 is a camera -to -Web about broadband was that it is too expen- "I think what this reflects is what you may streaming- media -design system enabling Web designers and sive, with 24% making that claim. An addi- call a sociological wave of people who view Internet broadcasters to create tional 10% said they don't need it, another the Internet like a hobby. Interest peaks, and content more easily. It is avail- 12% said they have no specific reason and they want to spend more quality time with able directly from RealNetworks 12% don't know. their families," Kelly explains. "Searching the and its online store for $499. Related to the absence of enthusiasm for Internet is a very solo experience, even in broadband was the lack of interest in down- instant messaging, and I think people miss loading streaming videos or short films, dealing with their family." which may go a long way to explaining the Overall, 2,502 telephone interviews were woes of the online -entertainment industry. conducted in each of five countries: the According to the report, 89% of users are U.S., UK, France, Germany and Australia. not downloading streaming videos or short The numbers reported here reflect the U.S. films; 41% of those said they have no desire responses.
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and w a' R-Am in that city. The ballots please Most impressively, both sites selected to compete for the TV -news sites place in race for online journalism awards Online Commentary award have direct television tie -ins. Online Commentary is intend- True, this election- coverage week has cast television network "Terminal Planet" series. The ed to honor "a body of work by and local- station Web sites as superb conveyors of news category, which encompasses a single writer for commentary and voter results too localized for broader -interest, on -air breaking news and original that appears only on the Web." coverage. analyses, also has as a finalist ONA states that, to be selected, Yet, as the distinguished, 11-person nominating committee of the entry Minnesota Public Radio's "the writer should display an Online News Association has just attested, television -related Web American Radio Works. The site original voice, freshness of sites aren't just for brand extension anymore. Competing against was chosen for its Web -based insight and clear writing." Web -based iterations of respected print publications such as The "Massacre at Cuska" piece. Finalists are ABCNews.com's New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, television URLs are They face heady competi- Diane Lynch, whose biweekly gaining acceptance in the nascent field of online journalism on their tion from no less than the Web "Wired Women" column ex- own merits. sites of the Associated Press, plores issues related to women This is not hyperbole, but fact. Last week, the Online News The New York Times and the and technology, and Oxygen. Association (http: / /www.journalists.org) and the Columbia Uni- Washington Post. com's Emily Prager. whose versity Graduate School of Journalism announced the finalists for In the Breaking News: humor-tinged columns appear in the first Online Journalism Awards. In several categories, televi- Collaboration category, finalists "The Read" every five weeks. sion- related news entries stand proudly among distinguished were chosen "to honor the cov- The Online Journalism erage of a spot or breaking -news Award winners were picked event or development that dis- Oct. 27 but won't be announced competition. Let's look at cate- which the judges held this site, plays exceptional reporting." As until Dec. 1 at the first -ever gories where broadcast -media note the other finalists: Atlantic do most other awards cate- Online News Association con- contestants have placed among Unbound (Atlantic Monthly's gories, this one honors individ- vention, to be held at Columbia the finalists. site), Business Week Online, ual pieces rather than the overall University in New York. For MSNBC.com is one of five FT.com (the Financial Times quality of the Web site. information, e-mail meeting co- entrants in the General Ex- site) and WSJ.com, which is The ABCNews.com's "Chaos In ordinator Rob Seitz at robseitz@ cellence in Online Journalism: Wall Street Journal site. Seattle" is one of the finalists. ix.netcom.com, or call (212) In Collaboration awards. "This In the Breaking News: Its competitors are the 951 -7113. category," the ONA says on its Original to the Web category, Albuquerque Tribune, Business Speaking of contests, I'd like Web site, "honors a Web site one of the finalists is Rich - Week Online and WSJ.com. to hear how the online version of that successfully fulfills its edito- mond.com. The independently The Service Journalism: In your election -night coverage rial mission, effectively serves its owned Virginia -based news Collaboration finalists were went? Let me know what audiences, maximizes the portal incorporates a signifi- picked for "coverage of a single worked well, what didn't and unique abilities of the Web and cant amount of news content topic that helps users improve what lessons were learned. Road represents the highest journalis- from wTVR -TV in that city. Its the quality of their lives." One of Tales are a lingua franca here at tic standards." competitors are the technolo- the three finalists was The Common Ground. Write me at More specifically, nominees gy- oriented Web site CNET Weather Channel's Weathercom [email protected]. were picked based on their con- News.com and Rediff.com, a for its "Tornado!" information tent excellence, interactive fea- general- interest news and fea- package. Jousting for this award Russell Shaw's column about tures, design, navigation, com- tures portal based in India. are ConsumerReports.org and Internet and interactive munity tools (such as chat), and MSNBC.com is also a finalist Cleveland Live, the Cleveland issues appears regularly. He multimedia features. in Enterprise Journalism: In Plain Dealer -affiliated site that can be reached at russell- To see the kind of respect in Collaboration for its five -part includes content from wKYC-Tv [email protected].
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Australia and Singapore. He doesn't want to study COFDM's Granite considers mobile capabilities with only DTV in mind. He points out that COFDM has been dis- cussed as a possible modulation scheme for the ch. 60 -69 spectrum the FCC plans to mobile DTV thrust auction. "We may be better off looking at other areas where spectrum is available." KNTV may test COFDM in Bay Area, targets 'captive viewers' If the mobile -DTV test does happen, it will definitely include consumer demon- By Glen Dickson trip to Singapore. strations, says Beck. "I certainly think we'll ranite Broadcasting wants to see if it "I saw fully mobile television going 50 try to get some consumer reaction and can offer American consumers the mph in the back seat of a car with an anten- develop a public -policy analysis. That G same type of mobile digital televi- na and a 10 -inch flat -panel display," he makes sense here." sion services that are being developed in says. "The quality was wonderful, and, as a Since KNTV's STA will expire in mid - Europe and Asia. man with four children who sit in the back February, Granite will probably wind up KNTV, the Granite station in San Jose, seat of a Suburban, I was intrigued." asking the FCC for an extension. "I don't Calif., has received a temporary Although Granite quietly think we're going to get this thing techni- license from the FCC to test received the STA in August (it cally completed by the end of the license COFDM -based DTV trans- isn't posted on the FCC Web term," Beck explains. missions in the San Francisco site), the station group has yet According to the FCC's Mass Media market. The station is currently to begin testing, primarily Bureau, KNTV's STA is the 10th granted evaluating the technical feasi- because the "technical issues specifically for COFDM broadcasts. bility of starting such a trial this are very daunting," says Beck. Sinclair-owned KUPN Las Vegas received month and hopes to begin tests Beck has come to appreci- one -month STAB in April 1999 and 2000 to in a few weeks, says KNTV ate the difference between the conduct COFDM transmissions during the Granite's Stu art Beck says President and General his motiva tion for the single- frequency network NAB convention. NBC O &O WCAU mobile -DTV t est is simple: Manager Bob Franklin. The (SFN) used to broadcast Philadelphia received a one -month license "America has always found concept would be to target a way to del iver the best COFDM in Singapore, which last January to perform COFDM tests. And services to pe opte. And this received six STAB "captive viewers" in taxis, is clearly the best service." encompasses eight distinct six stations have -month buses and trains, says Franklin. transmitters, and the "big this year to air COFDM broadcasts as part Granite applied for the STA (special stick at KNTV." KNTV, currently operating of DTV transmission tests by the temporary authority) this summer in what an 8 -VSB DTV signal, also doesn't have a Association for Maximum Service company President Stuart Beck called "a COFDM exciter. But Beck is hopeful that Television (MSTV): WRC, WUSA and WETA burst of enthusiasm" after he witnessed Granite can procure COFDM equipment, in Washington, D.C.; and WNUV, WBFF and mobile-DTV reception during a business perhaps with the help of connections in WEAL in Baltimore.
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little doubt that the 107th Congress will con- sider proposed revisions to the [law]." Do not bypass go ... The Clinton administration weighed in with its concerns just before the agency was Critics, including academics and library personnel, fear due to release its decision: " [The National Copyright Office ruling will impede fair -use' access to content Telecommunications and Information Administration] believes that implementa- By Paige Albiniak Time Warner described the doctrine: " [A] tion of far -reaching access -control technolo- Ihe U.S. Copyright Office has nar- fair -use defense might allow a user to quote gies without carefully drawn exemptions rowly defined when online users can a passage from a book, but it does not fol- would not only invert 200 years of judicial legally circumvent copyright protec- low that the user is allowed to break into a interpretation regarding the scope of protec- tion, and critics complain that it went too bookstore and steal a book." tions given to copyright holders, but also far in protecting content providers' rights. When the DMCA became law, the House eviscerate individual scholarship and the Drawing from a broad range of options, Commerce Committee wrote, " [T]he notion of free inquiry," wrote Gregory the agency two weeks ago ruled that users Committee is concerned that marketplace Rohde, assistant secretary of Commerce and could legally bypass copyright -protection realities may someday dictate a different out- head of NTIA in a letter to the Copyright technologies under only two specific cir- come, resulting in less Office in late September. cumstances. They can freely decrypt lists of access, rather than more, to An NTIA spokesman 'This Web sites collected by filtering software in copyrighted materials that disappointing said the agency's views order to see what sites the software is really are important to education, decision has moved hadn't changed in light blocking. And they can circumvent copy- scholarship and other our nation one of the Copyright Office's right protections when access software is socially vital endeavors." decision, and NTIA did malfunctioning and unintentionally keep- A strict anticircumven- step closer to a not say whether it If / ing out potential users. tion law, the committee pay- per -use society. agreed with the decision The Copyright Office's ruling was reasoned, could give con- after its release. -Rep. Rick Boucher required by the Digital Millennium tent providers the legal Outside the govern- Copyright Act (DMCA), which Congress protection to require users ment, corporations con - passed in 1998. That law lays the ground- not just to pay to download one copy of a tinued to fight with academics over the work for copyright protection online. Critics copyrighted work, but to pay every time issue, just as they did while policymakers of the law, including the House Commerce they wanted to look at or listen to that work. were writing the law. Committee and the Clinton administration, That concern was expressed again by Time Warner told the Copyright Office were concerned that it went too far in pro- committee member Rep. Rick Boucher (D- last February that the new law is designed to tecting content providers' copyrights at the Va.) last week after the Copyright Office "protect the copyrighted works against risk of eliminating "fair-use" rights. published its decision. "This disappointing unauthorized uses. Anyone wanting to make Fair -use rights allow users, particularly decision has moved our nation one step los- `fair use' of a copyrighted work need only ... educators and librarians, to make one copy er to a `pay- peruse' society that threatens to buy or rent a copy, subscribe to a transmis- of protected content-book, article, TV advance the narrow interests of copyright sion thereof or borrow a copy from a library" show, movie, song -for private, individual owners over the broader public interest of Academics and libraries are concerned use. In a February filing on the inquiry, information consumers," he said. "There is about fair -use harm. cing the story should be just as fast. sgtM
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By Bill McConnell "There are lots of implementation issues DTV receivers. So far, the Consumer Elec- Viewers will be able to "opt out" of a for this technology," Hamilton said. News tronics Association has balked at making the new DTV feature that allows stations Corp., parent of Fox Television, and feature a required element. to automatically switch them to spe- Tribune Broadcasting developed the chan- Broadcasters are pushing the FCC to cially targeted programming and advertise- nel- switching technology. require all DTV equipment to provide for ments, industry executives said last week. Because directed channel changing re- the technology and other specific portions The channel- changing component, quires stations to offer of the ATSC's Program added to the DTV specifications in May, several parallel program Broadcasters are and System Information has raised eyebrows, because it would give streams, the service could Protocol (PSIP). The stations power to carry viewers to pro- take away the bandwidth pushing the FCC to agency declined to tackle gramming against their will or target -mar- needed for high - definition require all DTV PSIP- related issues when ket them without their knowledge. television, suggested Intel it settled other DTV/ equipment to provide But giving individuals the power to turn Corp. Manager of DTV cable compatibility issues off the feature, known as "directed channel Standards Regis Crinon. the technology for in September. The cable change," will prevent stations from abusing But Hamilton said that 'directed channel industry and equipment the technology, News Corp. Vice President HDTV would still be an makers are required to for Software Engineering Scott Hamilton option if broadcasts are change. report to the FCC on told a seminar sponsored by the Advanced "handled correctly" with their progress on PSIP Television Systems Committee in Washing- such techniques as frame doubling and and other DTV issues on Nov. 30. The ton last week. "If people don't want to par- transmitting in the 720p format, which FCC has said it will decide whether to man- ticipate in direct channel change, they keeps high - definition programming from date the PSIP elements, also known as won't. It's optional." eating up all of a station's 19.4 -Mb/s digital A/65, if it becomes dear the various indus- It is unclear whether DTV receivers will transmission rate. tries cannot work out a satisfactory deal. be designed to automatically accept direct- Another big question for directed channel "I can't tell you how un- optional I would ed channel changes or prompt viewers to changing is whether consumer-equipment like to make A/65 in FCC regulation," activate the service. manufacturers will include the technology in Hamilton said, adding jokingly, "We'd like to see it in all sets 4 inches and above." The channel- changing feature would News Corps Scott Hamilton: benefit broadcasters, because it will help "If people don't want to participate in direct channel them retain overall viewers with narrowly change, they won't. It's targeted programming and allow networks optional." to sell local advertisements during prime time programming. For example, ads could be targeted according to viewers' ZIP codes during national broadcasts. "We can sell snow tires in Montana and not San Diego," he said. Viewers could also tailor their newscasts so that people who don't like business news could get an alternative. The ATSC is also trying to get all broad- casters to support a PSIP feature that ensures that electronic- program guides list all of a station's digital services under the same channel as its analog programming.
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ABC: ENG format comes first The network is taking a wait -and -see approach to asset management
The implementation of asset management at ABC television since determining the ENG format is the critical first step in the network involves a broad strategy, the outcome of which is entire sequence of asset -management -related events. by no means certain, according to Preston Davis, ABC's "We are in the process of trying to figure out what our next president of broadcast and engineering operations. Asked to electronic newsgathering-ENG- format will be," says Davis. describe where the network is today in terms of asset manage- "Will it be a traditional tape format, an optical format or based on ment, the ABC execu- magnetic media? We have been following, tive is quite candid. very closely, the progress of optical storage, `We are not behind the "There are a num- which seems to have all the right attributes ber of initiatives curve. We recognize that of an acquisition format. Our acquisition strategy ties directly into our asset -man- under way here you can wind up spending h which need to be agement strategy." sorted out. All of a lot of money in the Davis believes the ability to leverage a -"i/vA Ge them impact on how wrong places: combination of optical and magnetic we are going to proceed, in media as long -term storage media across -Preston D avis, ABC general, with asset management. We are the entire TV- production chain, as well as not behind the curve. We are just being in the consumer-electronics realm, is an careful, because we recognize that you can wind up spending a lot important ingredient in the asset -management mix. Being able to of money in the wrong places." deploy it at a much lower price point only adds to optical record- Asset management is a complex problem that needs to be ing's appeal. addressed as part of an overall system. A more fundamental deci- "Because news is the driving force here, we are on hold as we sion has to be made by ABC about the right acquisition format, await an optical solution. Almost anything else you do will end up
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HTML and XML is seen by us as a signifi- the culprits here on the ingest side. Now that Mass. -based EMC Corp., which acquired cant leap forward," said Dan Agan, we have seen demonstrations of video direct Denver -based Avalon this summer. Excalibur's vice president of marketing. to IP, we are quite confident that coders will "We are offering a comprehensive infra- "Simultaneous read/write is allowing content surface that will handle any bandwidth flow." structure, where we facilitate the high -end editors and creators to write directly to the Of course, before someone leaps into storage, management and delivery of rich database in real time as well. Discovery, for Web -based syndication, there is the more media for our customers," said Doron example, wanted that type of access as mate- fundamental issue of figuring out who Kempel, general manager of EMC's media rial was backhauled, via satellite, both during holds valid asset -management credentials. solutions group. "With Avalon, we allow for their recent ECO Challenge and for their "At the major trade shows like NAB and flexible policies concerning the movement upcoming special coverage of the manned IBC this year, you encountered some form of content across platforms. Rich media mission on the International Space Station." of asset management in every stall. But only requires intelligent content -propagation Excalibur's RetrievalWare, a text -driven a fraction of the companies trying to pro- technology. We are leveraging Avalon, taking search engine, is another core offering. mote these so -called asset -management their technology to completely different "Our goal is to ensure that any metadata solutions really understand what asset man- applications and feature sets, from the LAN present can be extracted, and that the asset agement is all about. And fewer still appear to the WAN." EMC is taking what Kempel is searchable and leverageable," says Agan. to be seeking integrated partnerships," says describes as a "holistic" approach. "The publishing side is where a lot of ener- Mark Jones, director of the Jupiter Project "Media streaming is removing the gy needs to be focused. Creating demand at BBC News in London. license and country boundaries, and puts for the consumption of video in the lean- an emphasis on really knowing your con- forward environment means solving the CONTENT WITHOUT BOUNDARIES tent," Kempel says. "There is no opportu- bandwidth issue. The quality is there for Formidable asset -management players nity here for some sort of point -in -time certain applications, but not others. with very deep pockets abound. The list snapshot. All the core components are "And codecs [encoder/decoders] are not includes IBM, Sony and Hopkinton, going to grow, so the key is to provide a
as a short-term solution, although data tape as STAIRS. While the MARS team at ABC, may emerge as a viable long -term storage which is headed by Avi Wolf, director of ap- medium as well," says Davis. "Once the plications engineering at ABC Information asset is digitized, it can be migrated to Systems, has been primarily concentrating denser storage media as technology per- on text and audio content, the focus is shift- mits." ing to video. Last year, ABC initiated a research pro- "We have done experimentation with ject that was designed to what we call visual MARS, and we are still provide the network learning. That is about all I can say at this
with a better under- ABC wants to use asset management to point," says Davis. "As far as an easily standing of what enhance programs like the six -part searchable digital archive is concerned, we documentary special Hopkins 24/7. constitutes both are spending considerable R&D dollars to the best way to acquire content and the come up with a blueprint that all of the production units within best way to archive it. ABC could deploy. We started to transfer analog tape to D2 three "We have been looking at asset- manage- years ago. But we shut that down last year because it was just too ment software systems and attempting to identify time- consuming." agnostic hardware systems as well," says Davis. "We have been Though the labor intensity of the archiving process became an using independent servers in our news department from compa- issue, Davis says he does not see work flow, in itself, as a major nies such as Avid and Grass Valley for a long time. But we are just issue going forward as the network evaluates its asset -management in the early stages of understanding how they should be linked options. And a combination magnetic/data tape -based archive is together." not entirely out of the question either. ABC has been developing an intranet -based news - archive plat- Like the rest of the TV industry, ABC is still sorting out what form known as the Media Archive and Retrieval System, or MARS, digital television is all about. But DIY uncertainties aside, Davis which is powered by Excalibur Technologies' RetrievalWare. This says that, at ABC, there is no question that the Internet is impact- is a replacement for an earlier archive- management system known ing enormously on operations as a whole. -P.J.B.
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supporting infrastructure, which grows and agement and content -distribution solutions increasing tape capacity by eight times over scales accordingly. Being culturally sympa- for broadcasters, says Dave Trumbo, solu- the next four years." thetic as you set out to liberate operations dons manager for content management at in this regard is important, too." IBM's Global Media & Entertainment ROADMAP FOR DIGITAL This year, EMC joined with Cisco Industry group in Santa Monica, Calif. The IBM Content Manager-based video - Systems, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Digital IBM's hardware solutions for asset man- asset- management system integrates with Island and iXL to launch the "Create Once, agement include IntelliStations-high-per- partners AdWare, Avid, Grass Valley Publish Everywhere," or COPE, intitiative. formance NT workstations for video edit- Group, MediaSite, Sony and Virage. The aim is to establish an integration ing and digital creation tools; highly reliable Significant enhancements targeted for model, not just for asset management but UNIX servers; and a full spectrum of data- broadcasters are currently under devel- for dynamic media creation, publishing, storage products for storage area networks opment, according to Trumbo, who adds distribution and presentation. (SANs), online disk storage and near-line that IBM is positioned to offer specific IBM's expertise in digital -library creation automated tape libraries. IBM Linear Tape - implementation support and to assist in and hierarchical- storage management is Open (LTO) products include automated the development of a roadmap for a cus- added to Sony's PetaSite robotic data -tape tape libraries that handle up to 200 GB of tomer's digital transformation. solution at CNN, for example, where a $20 compressed data per cartridge at data - Conrad Coffield, vice president of sales at million digital-archive system is taking transfer rates of up to 30 MB /s. Sony Electronics Broadcast and Professional shape. Virage is also part of CNN's system. "The LTO technology is an open indus- Co., says that, when it comes to selling an IBM's Content Manager, a rich -media try standard with multiple vendors sup- asset -management system, to coin a phrase, database that is a much enhanced follow - porting the technology, [thus] offering pro- "it takes a village." And it all starts with a up to IBM's earlier DB2 Digital Library tection for broadcasters' investments," says consulting engagement. Sony employs what platform, is one example of the company's Trumbo. "There is also a dearly defined Coffield calls a "use case" methodology. vast array of software -driven content -man- growth roadmap for the technology, "You have to identify how work flow will
BBC's Jupi ter Project The UK-based network is using the technology to improve work flow
friark Jones, project director of the J upiter Project at BBC part of the overall re- engineering process," says Jones. "At the News, counts at least five major asset -management pro- core, we split the work flow, separating ingest management from jects that are under way at the BBC. both near -line and offline retrieval." "In my terms, the rapid repurposing of news content is a key The Jupiter Project uses ENPS, Omnibus Systems' Columbus goal as far as managing assets is concerned," says Jones. "We want transmission- automation system and supports recording of line to understand the process first and then attach feeds to servers as well as facilitates mirrored recording to devices the technology. Intro- such as browse servers, as well as Grass ducing asset man- 'The rapid repurposing Valley Group's (GVG) Profile video agement into the servers and Virage Inc.'s Videologger. is a key organization can be of news content "We are aiming for one search portal /-, tricky. Above all goal as far as managing for video, and not just text as in ENPS. Today, if you want to access the archives, else," he adds, "we assets is concerned: AGE` want to avoid imposing you have to call someone who then per- the technology on the jour- -Mark Jones , BBC News forms a text -based search," says Jones. nalists." "We are focused on building the offline Jones described the Jupiter Project not as a technology project environment, and we have designed a pilot facility already." but rather as an attempt to better understand the impact of a wide Jones considers recent developments such as the rollout of range of innovations, including asset -management technologies, GVG's ContentShare software platform another indicator of how on journalists' work flow. fast the technology is evolving. "We are pulling a lot of technology together. It also entails iden- " ContentShare is a typical example of an innovative middle - tifying any unwanted stress imposed by new business models as ware solution, which has the potential to add enormous value to
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be affected by the asset -management imple- and transfer on its VIALTA telecine system "What we are telling the application mentation. That will drive which software using Discreet's Backdraft solution to man- developers is that we have now made soft- applications and hardware configurations age and track film transfer in the back- ware available that lets the tools work togeth- will be used. You do not simply put metada- ground. Outputting on a one -film -pass er and eliminates the need for customized ta in," Coffield says. "All the processes basis from the VIALTA to RGB data, software," says Steven Bilow, GVG's product involved should be systematically analyzed HDTV and SDTV is now possible. marketing manager for media -software prod- and planned. It took six months alone just to Finished material can be recorded on a ucts. "End users can now choose whatever identify the 300 to 400 use cases at CNN, Sony DTF -1 or DTF -2 data recorder. And tools they want. This allows for asset man- which in turn generated over 2,500 specific automated EDL capture and assembly via agement across different devices. At the same requirements translated back to individual Backdraft allows operators of Discreet time, it addresses the issue of legacy applica- pieces of software and hardware." Inferno, Flame, Flint, Fire and Smoke to tions by giving developers the option of writ- Sony's GY-8240 DTF -2 tape drive repre- avoid the cross -platform interchange- relat- ing a small piece of software in the form of a sents the next generation of high- speed, ed time delays. broker, rather than creating a whole new dri- large -capacity drives with 200 GB of stor- Nevada City, Calif -based GVG is attack- ver or scrapping the device in question, age per cassette and sustained -transfer rates ing asset management from several direc- which is a costly and avoidable option." of 24 MB/s. tions. Its innovative XML-based Content - GVG is also facilitating Webcasting and
"DTF has a forward-migration plan that Share software, for example, is an attempt to Web -distribution activities with its drag - takes it up to 800 GB per cassette and a sus- address what GVG sees as a huge gap: the and- drop -driven WebAble product, anoth- tained transfer rate of 96 GB /s with back- lack of standardized data -exchange inter- er ContentShare -based application. Web - ward compatibility to DTF -1," Coffield faces. ContentShare is not only resident in Able comprises software modules that en- says. In the realm of film -to -data capture GVG's new line of Profile XP media plat- able users to browse MPEG -1 versions of and compositing, Sony has partnered with forms but has also been adopted by more Profile Media, and then send them out over Discreet by allowing 4:4:4 real -time capture than a dozen other companies. the Internet in the Windows Media or Real
the whole undertaking," he says. As far as As a reference specification, Open - the Internet is concerned, he believes that SMEF has been placed on the agendas of is "the easy part." several international- standards bodies, "Lots of tools are readily available, and including the SMPTE, EBU (European the Web constitutes an open marketplace. Broadcasting Union), MPEG -7 and the Ingest is where the focus is, with particular AES. emphasis on annotating and managing the Paul Cheesbrough, a New York-based entire process." BBC consultant working on a separate In addition to the media- asset -management project for the
Jupiter Project, the The Jupiter Project is an attempt to better BBC Worldwide, points out that, in addi- BBC Media Data understand a wide range of innovations on tion to its global radio, TV and online the work of journalists. Group has been operations, BBC is also Europe's largest busy defining what is referred to as a publisher as well. There are 500,000 hours of video in the BBC 's. Standard Media Exchange Framework archive, stored in every format. As a result, achieving archive uni- GEC (SMEF). formity for a single digital format is the focus of the BBC's efforts. This includes the SMEF Data Model (SMEF- Montreal -based The Bulldog Group has signed a recent frame- DM), which is made up of a set of metadata definitions that work agreement with the BBC. Artesia, Tecmath, IBM, Excalibur, attempt to impose uniform data requirements on the production, Omnibus Systems and Sony are other companies that BBC distribution and management of media assets. The task entails a Worldwide has approached recently regarding its media asset wide variety of media applications and embedded metadata defi- management needs. nitions in different media formats. "The BBC is not going to tie itself to any single vendor. No one OpenSMEF is what the BBC describes as "a generic sub -set of single solution can satisfy all the different needs that can be the data dictionary that has been identified to support exchange of grouped together under the category of asset management at the media assets between content creators, distributors and archives," BBC," Cheesbrough says. "Everything in terms of asset manage- according to Jones. ment at the BBC has to be tied back into SMEF." -P.J.B.
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SGI Media Server for production and broad- StudioCentral Library and brings frame - cast is priced from $100,000 to $150,000 and accurate video browsing with an added INTEGRATORS GET INVOLVED can store up to 176 hours of DVCPRO -25. A emphasis on single- version video-clip man- System integrators have watched the grow- more scaled -back version starts at $60,000. agement. It runs on SGI's MediaServer as ing influence of asset management with great The SGI Media Server for production is well as GVG's Profile. MediaWorks sup- interest, knowing from the outset that the an out -of-the -box solution with a real -time ports GIF, JPEG, MPEG and Quicklime challenges posed would be substantial. "I? file system for inter- facility as well as formats, allowing users to immediately store, "There is a recognition that no one single, intra- facility file transfers via SMPTE 305M find, share and play digital assets. monolithic, overall, asset -management infra- SDTI for 4X RT transfer. The SGI Media Dominique Ste -Marie, president and structure exists, but rather a number of dis- Server for broadband with Kasenna CEO of Keops Broadcast, believes that con- parate media -management elements, each of MediaBase software is a multiple- bit -rate trol of both high -resolution and low- resolu- which performs an important but particular streaming -media platform. tion copies in a synchronous stream offers function and does it very well," says David "Two years ago, the theme was all about more than merely a time- saving advantage George, a director and senior consultant with keeping everything behind the firewall on in the larger sphere of asset management. New Jersey -based AZCAR Technologies the intranet," says Greg Estes, vice presi- "It reduces the bandwidth and storage (IMMAD ECVS). "Bringing these together dent and general manager of SGI's requirement substantially," Ste -Marie says. under some common technology umbrella telecommunications and media group. "Controlling the high-resolution world at presents both new problems and new oppor- "Now, the doors have opened and cus- the point of ingestion is what I consider to tunities for the system integrators."
Managing assets across platforms An end -to -end solution is n of the answer for Discovery
Three primary asset -management initiatives are under way at Room video- content -management system is deployed in pilot pro- Bethesda, Md. -based Discovery Communications, according jects that are testing a process developed at Discovery known as In to Peter McKelvy, Discovery's vice president of content man- Production Archiving (IPA). agement. Earlier this year, a Discovery RFP for a scalable and reli- The projects involve ingesting low- resolution browse material able enterprise media-management infrastruc- via Screening Room into Discovery's LAN, using a relatively small ture drew several responses. And McKelvy sample of two productions in- progress, involving fewer than 700 says Discovery ex- tapes. Currently, Discovery is running pects to award the 'The relati vely steep Excalibur on dual- processor -equipped contract by the a infrastructur e costs of an Pentium II NT workstations, with SQL end of the year. server for the backend database, along end -en d solution !G "We are explor- -to with approximately 1 terabyte of storage in \'AGES ing the application of conce rn us: a RAID array. The video is run at 500 kb /s digital asset- management using a Microsoft Media Player. -Peter McKelvy tools in a new way. From 1995 to 1998, we "We find that the Screening Room's devoted a lot of time to cataloging and indexing the archive, and natural- language -search capability is beneficial. Otherwise, we are now we are focused on the application of digital media- manage- experimenting with different [schemas] in order to devise better ment tools to traditional documentary film production work ways of capturing high -quality metadata," McKelvy says.
flow," McKelvy says. "The idea is to create a way to share video Achieving a more efficient and effective way to engage in cross - proxies of ongoing work across our worldwide organization." platform exploitation is a top priority, because of the network's McKelvy heads the Content Management Group at Discovery, major presence on the Web with Discoverycom. where Vienna, Va. -based Excalibur Technologies' Screening "We are not looking at a total end -to -end solution. The rela-
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This involves much more than the tradi- agement solutions or platforms and incum- because the trend toward shared resources in tional organization of a number of hardware bent automation systems. multichannel environments is a natural elements into a working whole, according to "We are looking at a business model in extension of automation. George. Critical new skill sets are required to Europe where the mechanics of playout are Moneyhun cites examples such as wwOR- address new problems such as file manipula- now being successfully subcontracted out, TV in New York and wum(Tv) in Baltimore, tion and control, data storage and retrieval, including ingest and transmission," says two stations operated from a single site in video /data compression and processing, and Barry Goldsmith, CEO of ENCODA. For New Jersey, along with WFLA -Tv in Tampa, a metadata strategies and application. example, ENCODA operates a broadcast new facility where newspaper and television "The need to develop new and innova- facility in London for Scandinavian DTH news departments share space. At wFLA -Tv, tive software solutions from scratch in par- satellite operator Viasat. four video servers and a StorageTek digital ticular is not an arena in which traditional "You have more multichannel operators robot hold the station's assets, managed by system integrators have been strong," says in play in Europe, too, so the whole model FloriCal's acquisition, storage -management George. "The introduction of this addition- is different, including the emphasis on cen- and on -air presentation solutions. al data -intensive dimension into the overall tralized playout," says Goldsmith. "For "With TV networks like Groupe TVA facility design accelerates the transition that example, the film library at BSkyB in the Montreal, for example, we are handling all integrators must make from a video to a UK is linked via ATM to the uplink site, multiple-network programming from one data world in which IT skills and resources which is 30 to 40 miles away. There, 70 to 80 central EMC Celerra server out to affiliates become as valuable as television experience movie channels are transmitted using GVG and to five regional server -equipped sta- once was." servers on a Fibre Channel infrastructure." tions all across Canada," Moneyhun says.
Automation vendors such as Colorado- According to Jim Moneyhun, president of "In Australia, Europe and Canada, we rou- based ENCODA Systems Inc., Omnibus Florida -based FloriCal Systems Inc., automa- tinely encounter a degree of regionalization Systems and Flori Cal are looking to capital- tion vendors are responsive to customers and centralization that you do not see here ize on the intrinsic ties between asset -man- searching for asset -management solutions, in the U.S. yet."
tively steep infrastructure costs of an end - with Sunnyvale, Calif. -based Interwoven's to -end solution concern us. Another con- Web site and content -management soft- cern we have is the changing nature of the ware- TeamSite-to allow users to move technology," says McKelvy. "Because we media to the TeamSite development area are in a test mode, we selected a small sys- and to provide automated reports. tem [the IPA project] that allows us the All three Discovery group leaders - flexibility to employ several different tools McKelvy, Huling and Campos- partici- in a variety of situations." pate routinely in a larger working group, Besides what is which facilitates the broader companywide
under way within Discovery wants to use content management media -asset -management process. "We the Content Man- to exploit events like its Web- centered have created a framework for sharing our Space Station project. agement Group, experiences. The objectives of the group k Discovery's Photo Services Group-led by are to exchange information on vendors, demonstrate the different Pam Huling -is working with eMotion, functionality of the tools, and develop a process for exchanging -4 GEC which is providing a hosted service powered by media [among] the different repositories," McKelvy explains. its MediaPartner platform. The service allows Creating a metadata schema has not been a priority at authorized access to Discovery's vast collection of photos and logo Discovery so far. And McKelvy admits that this was something the treatments to company personnel on the Web. network has to tackle. Although McKelvy sees several advantages "It facilitates extranet searches for images from Discovery's own in what the BBC is attempting to accomplish with the so -called archives as well from all the major stock houses," says McKelvy. Standard Media Exchange Framework (SMEF), he has made no At Discovety.com, a team headed by Gina Campos has engaged decision thus far regarding Discovery's possible use of SMEF. Toronto -based The Bulldog Group to provide a customized solu- "It is a matter of a tradeoff. I think we will be a bit more open," tion for the hosting of media elements used for Discovery's Web McKelvy says. "They are focusing on a dear defining of [a] meta - content. Bulldog's media -management solution will provide data schema, while I am anticipating that we will not be quite so Discovery.com with project information, which will be integrated rigid in our approach." -P.J.B.
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By Peter J. Brown informal pilot project with Virage, this section of the Campaign -SPAN, the Washington -based cable channel that covers 2000 site features searchable video, among other things. Congress, is currently reviewing proposals submitted in "We just broke out one piece," says Long. "Our plan is to extend response to its asset -management RFP. The goal is to initiate the same computerization and new -media technologies and apply a phased -in implementation of an asset -management solution, them generally. The external advantages are one thing. But this commencing in mid -2001. Chris Long, C- offers enormous internal benefits as a production tool that generates SPAN's director of the most current programming information new media, has the 'We want a unified system internally across the entire organization." responsibility of where the concept of While a copy is posted on C- SPAN's developing Web - Web site, the outbound video or a subset k site operations as work -flow maragement and of the content for syndication flows in the well as supervising resource commitment form of FIP (file transfer protocol) files NA - GE" the network's asset all start at the assignment destined for the Virage Interactive Services management system. site on the West Coast. From there, Virage "We are anxious to move ahead," says desk. does the rest, and that involves everything
Long. "We want a unified system where -Chris Lo ng, C-SPAN from logging and processing to indexing the concept of work -flow management and hosting. and resource commitment all start at the assignment desk. By pur- "This is quite a bit more than a searchable version of our net- suing what we see as ingest archiving, we will be able to generate work coverage, and one which is syndicated to 44 third -party Web information about our programming every step of the way" sites including The New York Times and USA Today. This is the C -SPAN currently uses a Nesbit scheduling tool, which gener- pathway to personalization and notification services," says Long, ates a log for on -air programming. who adds that this project serves as a comprehensive blueprint for "The big limitation for our organization is that while it [asset what C -SPAN hopes to put in place beginning next year. management technology] can be used by Besides searchability, there is the more our programming operations personnel, it fundamental decision of what constitutes does not extend out to the headend of this appropriate outsourcing, especially in light operation where the actual assigning of what Virage has provided on an almost occurs," says Long. turnkey basis already. "In -house versus A broader digital transition is under out -of-house processing and hosting, that way, although C -SPAN remains largely is the big question as we develop a larger dependent upon Panasonic ME analog solution," according to Long. videotape with a bit of digital thrown in as Among other things, C- SPAN's unique well. C -SPAN has its single digital control mix of programming and its uninterrupted Although a digital transition is under way, room up -and - running using Grass Valley congressional coverage present special C -SPAN remains Largely dependent Group video servers and a GVG switcher. on analog videotape. challenges. Network executives are still evaluating "We have quite a dynamic program- automation alternatives and near -line storage. ming environment with a very volatile schedule. Our gavel -to- "Our approach to a content [asset] management system has gavel Senate and House floor coverage is perhaps the most wide- been inside out," says Long. "We are attempting to build a system ly recognized aspect of our coverage," says Long. that reflects and supports C- SPAN's current television operations, "Our asset -management project, along with the digitization of while incorporating forward-looking features such as automation our operations and our program archive, will increase the value of and publishing the schedule directly to the Web," says Rob our public affairs content by providing new types of access," Kennedy, C- SPAN's executive vice president. Kennedy says. "For example, we will be able to provide personal- Long is quite enthusiastic whenever www.cspan.org/cam- ized schedule notifications. Or, a customized Web page containing paign2000/search/ is the topic of discussion. Developed as an content of interest to an individual user." n
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Tracking digital content At SMPTE, efforts are under way to develop industrywide standards
By Peter J. Brown In addition to the broader effort at SMPTE to create a stan- The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers dardized metadata dictionary, the S22 committee is also examin- (SMPTE) is actively exploring different aspects of asset ing plant -level information and control mechanisms along with management in an effort to standardize some aspects of con- machine control. Weiss served as a moderator at a recent SMPTE tent management. panel where Steven Bilow of Grass Valley Group presented a Led by the Committee on Metadata and paper on distributed asset -management systems, including GVG's Wrapper Technology ContentShare software platform. "The (W25) and the Com- The [metdata effort] is goal is to convert plants into object -based it out. The mittee on Television proceeding nicely, and the operations. We are just figuring Systems Technol- issue is, `Can we standardize the object generalized framework has k ogy (S22)-which is model ?' That is not certain at this time," E says Weiss. J chaired by Oliver been put in place. NA GEC Morgan, of Avid Tech- W25 chairman Morgan, a senior con- -Oliver F. Morgan, A vid Technologies and nologies, and S. Merrill W25 co mmittee sulting engineer at Avid who also serves as Weiss, of Merrill Weiss Group, respective- the liaison between SMPTE and MPEG, ly-SMPTE has created a Unique Material Identifier (UMID) and a described the whole industrywide metadata - related effort as "pro- Unique Program Identifier (UPID). UMID is a tracking device for dig- ceeding along nicely, and the generalized framework has been put ital content across all media, much like a license plate. UPID serves the in place. same purpose, but for blocks of content. "A couple of contentious items have surfaced in the progress- "The UMID is a form of metadata that is attached to content ing of the Metadata Dictionary. For example, the more difficult from the time it's created. It came out of the work by the SMPTE/ discussions about the specifics surrounding frames -per- second of EBU [European Broadcasting Union] task force and serves as a telecine, and again in the case of time code, were pushed back global identification agent that can be generated automatically, so [temporarily postponed] to allow the non - contentious items to be that anybody using the UMID can distin- processed more quickly," says Morgan. guish that content from any other con- "The plan is to extend the metadata stan- tent," says Weiss. dard every 90 days, which is quite remark- The S22 committee also includes a sub- able." group called the Registration Authority Ad The TV industry and the Internet Hoc Group, which focuses on the UPID industry proceed in two very different and similar metadata and has made that environments, and this can create a few available online. headaches for anyone attempting to coor- Early on, the UPID development team dinate efforts involving both camps. considered working with the International "The trouble with a software -driven Standard Audio/Visual Number (ISAN), S. Merrill Weiss is co -chair of the 522 industry is that there is never enough time committee, which is developing rules for but the linking of the two proved unwork- identifying content across all media. for due process, whereas the situation is able. Subsequently, the ISAN underwent a the exact opposite in the hardware -driven transformation, and now the feasibility of uniting the two propos- TV industry. There, the prolonged polishing of standards is a fact als is under consideration again at SMPTE. of life. This leads to an ongoing situation where the TV hardware "UPIDs are assigned through a registration process, although is always falling behind Internet time, which is what the SMPTE the final form of the central registry for UPID data has not been metadata dictionary was designed to correct," Morgan explains. determined. The problem with the ISAN harmonization is that we New application domains are expanding the scope of the meta - were further along in developing the registration mechanism. data dictionary. The TV Anytime Forum (TVAF), a group whose Registration is required so that, when you retrieve a UPID from a members include NDS, Sony, TiVo, Replay and the major pro - block of finished content, you could obtain relevant information gramming networks, is adding new requirements as to how end about that content," Weiss says. users generate and consume metadata.
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OLYMPIC HINDSIGHT, WITH HUMOROUS GIBES On Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor Oct. 27, host Bill O'Reilly tweaked NBC's Bob Costas for NBC's less -than- advertised ratings for the games, and suggested that, with the fall of communism, Americans now don't have enough athletes to root against. Dubya as Jed When Reilly suggested that future NBC coverage should cre- Clampett ate more villains, Costas replied, The surprisingly tight presiden-
"Oh, believe me, we're not tial race presents a problem for above NBC, of course, trying." Matt Stone (above) and Trey was criticized for its maudlin Parker. The duo behind hit car- profiles of athletes. toon South Park has been prep-
POLLOCK'S GOODBYE TO ping a live- action political sit- GOOD FRIENDS com based in the White House Larry Pollock, long -time head of Here comes the for Comedy Central. the ABC -owned TV station group, Anticipating that Al Gore officially retired last week. Under would win, they had tentatively a consultancy agreement, Pollock titled their effort Family First, is free to advise other TV groups judge, again and had sketched out characters as long as they are not competi- seven accordingly. Depending on tive with ABC. Judge Joseph A. Wapner has donned the robes he'd put away Day may be back to Pollock is also talking to a years ago. To mark the 3,000th episode of The People's Court, the Election it major research company and current judge, Jerry Sheindlin, stepped down for the day so Wapner the drawing board. What's the may teach as well. But he'll could do his thing with old partners, court officer Rusty Burrell and difference, we asked. "The presi- miss "the diversity and the dif- court reporter Doug Llewelyn, taking up their positions. dent's sort of like Dick Van Dyke ferent things you get into and But if he's telling the truth, he may never see his own home- if Gore wins," said Stone, a working with so many of the coming on the tube. Wapner, one of the pioneers of televised small- Republican who doesn't like people. I hired all the general Associated Press he has not seen the either candidate. "With Bush it's managers and they're all good claims court drama, told the more like the Beverly Hillbillies." friends." Walter Liss assumes bounteous court shows now on the air. "I never watched myself. Pollock's spot. Why should I watch them ?" he asked.
In the 1956 -57 television season, Charles Van Doren veys-one conducted before the testimony and one became one of America's first prime time "reality" after. Before Van Doren's disclosure, 18.9% said their celebrities, but probably not in the way he would have opinions about TV changed because of the growing scan- wished. Van Doren won $129,000 as the 14 -week champ dal. After Van Doren's confession, that jumped to 50.9 ° /°.
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Broadcasting Tim Spillane, sales execu- Tv Miami, Fla., as reporter/ KRBE(FM) Houston, named Appointments at Pearson tive, Western region, Akamai back -up anchor. group manager, integrated Televison North America, Technologies, Chicago, joins solutions, Susquehanna Radio Santa Monica, Calif.: Wi l li a m Univision Communications, Technology Corp., Houston. Lincoln, executive VP, pro- Los Angeles, as VP, affiliate Bijan Chowdhury, senior duction management and relations, Western region. director, financial services, Advertising/Marketing/PR finance, named COO; Matt Susan Sewell, director, Oracle, New York, joins Debbie Durben, executive Loze, executive VP, Pearson media relations, ABC Inc., New Gotham Broadband, New VP, Interep Marketing Group, Television International, York, named VP media rela- York, as chief operating officer. New York, named president. named president, production, tions, network communications. David Barrett, senior VP, Billy Farina, VP, advertis- drama and longform; Sara Vivian J. Carr, partner, technology and e- business ing sales at Cox Cable Rutenberg, senior VP, busi- KPMG LLP, Denver, joins solutions, Xceed Inc., New Communications, Los ness and legal affairs, named Liberty Media Corp., York, joins Sekani Inc., New Angeles, named vice chairman, president, business develop- Englewood, Colo., named York, as senior VP. board of directors, Adlink, Los ment and strategy. senior VP investor relations Dr. Alan E. Bell, director, Angeles interconnect. Michael A. Guariglia, and secretary. digital media standards and Appointments at NCI senior VP, director of national. commercialization, IBM Advertising, New York: broadcast, Hill, Holliday, Journalism Research Division, San Jose, Douglas Stroup, senior VP, Conners, Cosmpulos Inc., Lisa Karlin, senior broadcast Calif., joins Warner Bros. named senior VP, account Boston, joins Telemundo correspondent, Entertainment Technical Operations, group supervisor; David Group Inc., New York, as Weekly, New York, joins Time Burbank Calif., as senior VP, Hahn, VP, controller, named executive VP, station group magazine; New York, as senior technology. senior VP/finance director.. sales. broadcast correspondent, Appointments at ESPN ABC Jorge Hidalgo, VP, sports, entertainment reports for radio. Satellite /Wireless Sports Consumer Marketing: Telemundo Network, Miami, Crys Quimby, news direc- Appointments at PamAmSat, Shari Cohen, VP, assistant named senior VP, sports. tor, KRWB(AM) Los Angeles, Greenwich, Conn.: Bruce A. manager, GM Mediaworks, Appointments at Fox named director of news and Haymes, VP and associate New York, joins as VP, event Television Sales, New York: programming. general counsel, named senior sales; Randy Gerstenblatt, VP, Vinnie Grubb, VP, director Stacy Owen, managing edi- VP; James B. Frownfelter, customer marketing, New of sales, named senior VP, tor, KRON -TV San Francisco, VP, space systems, named York, named VP and director, director of sales; John named assistant news director. senior VP. customer marketing; Paul Hummel, VP, director of Joy Purdy, weekend Green, director, customer mar- sales, named senior VP, direc- anchor and reporter, WIXT--Tv Radio keting and new media, named tor of sales. Jacksonville, Fla., joins WFOR- Jim Reilly, director of sales, VP, customer marketing and
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Attention: Human Resources We're digital ! And soon we will be programming 5230 St. Clair Ave. four channels instead of one. We are looking for Cleveland, OH 44103 -1310 a programming professional to assist in screen- Cleveland Television Network is an equal opportunity employer. HN M/F ing, purchasing and scheduling programs for air. This organized individual will also make sure feeds are scheduled, tapes are assigned and programs are in place. This position includes DIRECTOR OF BROADCASTING STATION MANAGER / working closely with the Promotions Producer Cleveland Television Network, a community minority cable channel serving Cleveland, Ohio, and the near to creatively schedule elegant station breaks suburbs, Director seeks a of Broadcasting/Station Manager. that promote our programs and our mission. Duties: In charge of day -to -day operations, production and programming. 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News -Executive Producer Media General Broadcast Group www.mgbg.com FOX Sports WCBD -TV Charleston, S.C. We are looking for a top EP who is capable of overseeing the daily operational and investiga- WRITER /PRODUCER /DIRECTOR tive reporting for this NBC station.This is a excel- JOB CODE: CH/WPD lent opportunity to work with the best first amendment attorneys in America, as well as a Are you a writer work? you strong /producer/director with cutting edge creative Can forge a triple -Emmy, Columbia-duPont and Edward R. project from first completion? Do you have the ability to work with /or lead a conception through Murrow "Best small market Newscast in team? If so, this may be the job for you! America" News team. You must be talented, cre- You must have 2 -3 years experience in writing. producing, and directing promos or commercials ative and organized to get this job, but we are for broadcast; be able to work flexible hours. and have the ability to deliver a quality product willing to pay for the right person. EOE M/F under tight deadlines. College degree and production /agency experience a plus. Drug Screen. Send resume to HR Dept. 210 W. Coleman Blvd. Mt. Pleasant, S.C. 29464 AUDIO PRODUCER JOB CODE: LG /AP PRODUCER Must have 2 -3 years previous experience with reading and directing audio engineers, KESQ -TV, the Southern California desert's news supervising final audio mix in preparation for air, selecting music cues, and working with writer leader has an opening for a strong newscast producers in sound design for promos. producer. Candidates must be able to write inter- Previous experience in directing Engineers using SSL Scenaria audio board helpful. esting stories, as well as compelling teases and Background in music and/or music production is a BIG PLUS. bumps. Some previous producer or associate producer experience is a plus, but an excellent We are looking for an individual that has the ability to pay attention to detail, in a fast -paced team player attitude is what will set you apart. If production environment with quick turnaround time. The qualified candidate will track all music you are interested in working with the leading cues and payment fees, maintain and update script binders, and write tags /copy as requested. team in the market, rush resume and reference to: For immediate consideration, please send reel, resume, and references indicating the specific Gulf -California Broadcast Company Job Code to: FOX Sports HR Department, 1440 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 353, Los Angeles, CA KESQ - Human Resources 90025. No phone calls, please. EOE. -TV 42 -650 Melanie Place Palm Desert, CA 92211 EOE. No phone calls please.
CREATIVE PRODUCER Established television program is looking for a Creative Producer to be part of a new and excit- ing effort to redesign its promotional strategy and obtain new corporate sponsorship. The perfect candidate will need to demonstrate ingenuity coupled with a solid record in the television indus- PRODUCERCAREERS try. Send your cover letter, resume and salary requirement to POB 90709 Wash., DC 20090. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, NEWS PRODUCER SPECIAL PROJECTS WRGB -TV in Albany, NY is looking for a PRODUCER /DIRECTOR KFMB -TV, San Diego's leading news station, is creative producer with lots of ideas to join our looking for an executive producer to oversee its news team. Must be a good writer who can Producer/Director needed for Houston's projects The special unit. unit consists of three react quickly to breaking news and is Univision O &O TV station. Ideal candidate will be reporters (two investigative, one consumer), three willing to take risks. Send tape and resume to: a self- directed and creative individual with field producers and two photographers. News Beau Duffy, WRGB, 1400 Balltown Rd, good client skills. Producing and editing skills management experience in a top 50 market or Niskayuna, NY 12309. EOE. preferred. Fluent Spanish and English skills, experience in a major market investigative unit preferred. Please send resume to KFMB/Human written and oral, required. A minimum of 2 year's Resources, 7677 Engineer Road, San Diego, CA PROMOTIONS PRODUCER experience Producing/ Directing. Please apply 92111, or email to jobs @kfmb.com. EOE, women LEHIGH VALLEY (include a non -returnable tape of your work) to: and minorities are encouraged to apply. PBS/WLVT has an outstanding opportunity for P /D, KXLN -TV 45, 9440 Kirby Drive, Houston, a creative, dynamic individual who will be TX 77054. EOE PRODUCER responsible for all station promotions. Must be a ABC 11, the ABC -owned station in Raleigh - hands -on producer with the ability to write, shoot Durham, seeks a producer for Eyewitness News. and edit. This talented individual must be able to SREATIVESERVICES Candidates must be able to build a solid, create on-air promos that capture audiences, informative, fast -paced program. Must have a station image spots that tell our story, and SENIOR DESIGNER good sense of graphics, and the ability to make children's material that gets kids to watch and Boston's Number One News Station and NBC good use of all production and technical tools learn. AVID non-linear editing experience pre- affiliate Seeks highly creative senior designer available. Outstanding writing skills required, as ferred. Knowledge of public television a plus. with 3 years experience to manage on -air graph- is the ability to handle live, late breaking stories , with - ics and special projects. Print and television and motivate and supervise others. This position Competitive salary excellent benefits plus experience including Quantel Paintbox and Hal is for an early evening newscast. At least three a fun place to work and a great place to live. The required. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator After years producing experienced is required. Send Lehigh Valley is located in a beautiful part of PA, and non-returnable tapes and resumes to Rick Willis, with access to NYC, Philadelphia, the Poconos Effects experience a plus! Degree preferred. Executive Producer, WTVD -TV, 411 Liberty and the beach. Please send resume and tape Send resume and tape to: Human Resources Street, Durham, North Carolina, 27701BC. to WLVT, Promotions Producer Search, 123 BC1106, WHDH -TV, 7 Bulfinch Place, Boston, No phone calls please. EOE. Sesame Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015. EOE. MA 02114. An EOE, M /F /DN.
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...... NATIONAL/LOCAL SALES MANAGER Looking for motivated individual at WEYI -TV in Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, the 64th market. Responsibilities will be increasing our share of national, managing several local account execu- tives, and co-managing the general sales efforts with the local sales manager. Should have 3-5 SB years experience in broadcast or rep side. Only SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP resume received by November 17 with code (NSM 1031) will be applied toward this position. Send resume and references to: EEO Officer, reference Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. owns or programs 62 TV code (NSM1031), WEYI -TV NBC25, 2225 West Willard Road, Clio, MI. 48420. E -mail: stations in 40 markets and has affiliations with all 6 networks. squackenbush @nbc25.net, Fax: 810-687 -8989, We EOE. WE Women and minorities encouraged reach nearly 25% of the U.S. and aggressively lead the to apply. evolution of broadcasting in techr ology, programming, promotions, and sales. We seek the one element which gives us ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE the edge on the competition and the power to stay on top - the Do you recognize the potential of the rapidly growing Houston Hispanic market? We have two best people in the business. If you're looking for a position in immediate openings in our Local Sales the broadcast industry at any level, chances are we have the per- Department for a Sr. A/E and an A/E who have the vision to capitalize on this opportunity. Candidates fect place for you. Some of our current vacancies include: should have experience in broadcast sales (3 years for Sr. A/E) and demonstrate the ability to O Senior Writer/Producer O Brsiness Manager develop new business. Bilingual skills (English/ O Assistant Business Mgr. O Natior.al Sales Manager Spanish) a plus. Local sales experience a plus, but not required. Must have good driving record. O Anchor/Reporter O Marketing Manager KXLN -TV is an Univision Television Group owned O Account Executives O Maste: Control Operators and operated station. Please apply at: Sr. A/E (Job 0019) or A/E (Job 0023), KXLN-TV, 9440 Explore your opportunities at: Kirby Drive, Houston, TX 77054 EOE
www.sbgi.net ACCOUNT EXEC. Sinclair is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug -Free Exp. NE to represent WCIU in Chgo. Local TV, radio, pref'd. Ability Workplace. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply. & cable sales exp. to develop new bus. & strong client relationships. Resume: HR, 26 N. Halsted, Chgo. 60661 Fax: (312) 705 -2656. EOE. No calls.
SALES ;'iREERS TECHNICALCAREERS TV SALES JOBS! OVER 150 MEDIA CAREER Need A/E to join our new businesses OPPORTUNITIES! development team. Successful candidate must More Income! 70 Great Places to live! US & be highly self- motivated. Position requires International! Free Service to Candidates! $295 total THE maximum number of cold calls daily, building Cost to employers! www.MediaRecruiter.com WEATHER 303- 368-5900. account list from non-agency, new -to -TV CHANNEL advertisers. Commissioned position with unlimited salary potential. Prior media sales experience is preferred. Send resume to weather.com Personnel, WTVC, P.O. Box 60028, Chattanooga, TN 37406 -6028. Resume must include referral SALES MANAGER BROADCAST SYSTEMS ENGINEER source. Equal Opportunity Employer. Richland Towers, Inc., one of the leading Will maintain and repair analog, digital, video broadcast tower development companies in the and audio systems; including routers, switch- U.S. is expanding its sales department. ers, automation systems, VTR's, cameras, POSITION SALES MANAGEMENT Sales Manager: Responsibilities will include and related broadcast technology. Must have ABC -11, KAQY-TV seeks aggressive team leader adding broadcasters to current Richland Tower ability and desire to develop skills in UNIX, for local sales management position. Excellent Windows NT, and networking systems. opportunity with this -old sites, generating broadcaster information to two- year VHF Television Required: 4 years experience as Broadcast station, currently experiencing rapid growth in rat- develop new tower projects as well as develop- Maintenance Engineer, with TV broadcast ings and revenues. The ideal candidate will be ing and maintaining corporate and local rela- organized, promotionally oriented, goal driven. tionships with broadcasters. related systems and equipment. Three years of media sales experience required, tel- This position will report to the Vice President of Come join our team! Send your resume today evision or radio sales management experience pre- Sales and Marketing. to: Jobs @weather.com, or fax to 770/226 - ferred. Salary plus incentives. Please send resume Qualified candidates should submit resumes to 2959. *Reference " Engineer BC" in response. and salary requirements to: Tom Deal, KAQY-TV, ddenton @ rtowers.com or fax (813) 286 -4130. The Weather Channel, Interstate North 3100 Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA 71203. KAQY is 300 an Equal Opportunity Employer. EMOnline: Sales DFWP, EOE. Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30339
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DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING A.F. Associates, one of the worlds leading systems integration and engineering firms, is seeking a moti- vated professional to join our team and help us manage considerable growth opportunities. This new position will be responsible for the ongoing development and day -to -day management of AFA's design engineering team, including recruiting new staff, allocation of engineering resources, and design OMNIBUSECM SYSTEMS INC. supervision and review. Member of the MANAGEMENT DATA GROUP As an integral member of the company's leadership team, you will be a key player in strategic decision - PROJECT ENGINEERS X 2 making, and work closely with high- level contacts of some of the industry's leading organizations, includ- ing broadcast and cable networks, new media companies, broadcast stations, and technology innovators. (WARRENTON, VA & A minimum of ten years of engineering experience is required, including significant involvement with NEVADA CITY, CA BASED) advanced digital technologies; you will have a proven track record of management and personnel devel- Want to travel and be on the cutting edge of opment skills; be an energetic "self starter" who thrives in a fast -paced environment; and have exception- Broadcasting? We need you! al communication and intra- personal skills. BS /EE preferred. We're looking for enthusiastic Project Engineers This position is located in AFA's headquarters, in Bergen County, New Jersey. Comprehensive benefits to assist with the installation and commissioning include 401(k) plan, medical/dental PPO plan; life and disability insurance. of complex software based control and automa- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. tion systems. Must have at least 2 years Send resume to: experience in a Broadcast and/or IT engineering HR Manager, A.F. Associates, Inc. environment and be able to communicate 100 Stonehurst Court, Northvale, New Jersey 07647 A effectively with customers and co-workers. Email: HR @afassoc.com Fax: 201 -750 -3046 A. F. Associates, Inc. Familiarity with Broadcasting practices and No phone calls please. "Engrnee lrg the Future of Television" equipment preferred. In return, Omnibus Systems offers an attractive BROADCAST ENGINEER WEB MASTER package for the right candidate. KSTP /KSTC -TV is looking for a BROADCAST Only team -players with a positive attitude, good JR CUSTOMER SUPPORT/ ENGINEER communications oral, written, and graphical SERVICE ENGINEER This position is responsible for installation, skills need apply for this growth oriented position (NEVADA CITY, CA) maintenance and repair of leading edge analog in an established but high tech multimedia and digital broadcast equipment and computer- telecommunication organization. Applicants Responsible for providing hardware, software ized systems. and operational support to OmniBus Users. must have a strong HTML background. If you have previous broadcast engineering Be able to communicate effectively with cus- Experience in Java, Perl, CGI, Cold Fusion, experience, training in solid state /digital electron- tomers and co- workers. FrontPage, Flash a plus. Self- starters rush ics and computerized systems, and the ability Familiarity with Broadcasting practices and resume, salary history- requirements to WM to work under minimal supervision, please send equipment helpful but not necessary. resume and salary expectations to: Search, WLVT, 123 Sesame St., Bethlehem, PA Based in beautiful Nevada City. Some travel to KSTP -TV 18015 or email wmsearch @wlvt.org required. Human Resources Dept. Additional info at www.wlvt.org/wm , FT Position Resumes may be sent by mail or faxed to: Job #119 -00 w /excellent benefits. Salary DOE, EOE. Women 3415 University Avenue Julie Watson, Office Manager and Minorities strongly encouraged to apply. OmniBus Systems Inc St. Paul, MN 55114 Providence Mine Rd., Suite #207 Fax: (651) 642 -4314 202 Nevada City, CA 95959 E -mail: apply @hbi.com ENGINEERING MANAGER Fax: (530) 470 -1718 No telephone calls please WXYZ -TV ABC Detroit is seeking and Engineering e -mail: jobs @ omnibussystems.com Or Equal Employer Manager. Qualified candidates will have extensive Opportunity [email protected] knowledge of all broadcast systems and equip- No phone calls please ment, government regulations and industry stan- OSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. dards, preparation and tracking of capital, www.omnibussystems.com STUDIO expense, repair and maintenance budgets, and must possess good personnel labor relations by TECHNICIAN identifying training needs and motivating staff to STUDIO MAINTENANCE ENGINEER meet the on-going and future technological needs Must be able to perform the following duties: of the station. Seeking leader with at least three install and maintain studio transmission equip- IINCCABLEVTSION years experience including capital purchasing, ment including video switchers, audio consoles, departmental budgetary planning, and managing DVE, CG, SS, cameras, and robotics. Familiarity Our leading telecommunications & entertainment and motivating engineering staff. Respond to: H. with automation systems and master control envi- company has an excellent position for a hands - R. Dept., WXYZ -TV, P.O. Box 789, Southfield, MI ronment. Should possess a general computer/ on technician with the ability to repair & maintain networking background. Must be able to work on broadcasting equipment and facilities. 48037 or e -mail to wxyzjobs @scripps.com. EOE a rotating shift schedule. Candidate should have A minimum of 2 years broadcast experience an engineering degree or equivalent technical or electronic maintenance required. Proven INFORMATION SYSTEMS training. SBE/FCC certification a plus. If you want background in repairing/aligning production COORDINATOR in including editing field to be a part of the exciting transition to HDTV equipment computers, Join a high -tech multimedia telecommunications production trucks, and test/alignment equipment the most exciting city in the world, please send organization with a positive, rewarding work envi- required. 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BROADCAST EDUCATORS WANTED HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY Florida A&M University's School of Journalism, Media and Graphic Arts, located in Florida's hilly and SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION woodsy state capital, Tallahassee, seeks two excellent faculty members beginning in August 2001. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF 1. Position #17664 - Broadcast or Newspaper Journalism educator. Rank and salary negotiable depend- VIDEO/TELEVISION ing on qualifications. Ideal tenure -track candidates will have the Ph.D. in journalism or mass communica- Hofstra University invites applications for a reporting and/or web publication design, tions or related field, successful experience in computer- assisted tenure -track position of Assistant Professor of research. publication record, zest for teaching and Video/ Television, to teach single- and multi -cam- Professional practice track candidates considered with masters degrees in appropriate field, substantial era production, and post -production at all lev- outstanding professional broadcast or newspaper journalism experience including computer- assisted els. Responsibilities include academic advising. reporting and/or web publication design, zest for teaching and for continuing pursuits from an academic Candidate must have strong production skills, setting. professional video experience and a proven abili- 2. Position #18175 - Broadcast Journalism educator. Rank and salary negotiable depending on qual- ty to combine theory and practice based on prior ifications. Ideal tenure -track candidates will have the Ph.D. in journalism, mass communications, RN, or teaching experience. Additional requirements closely related area; good professional experience as a reporter, anchor, or news producer; interest in and include a terminal degree (Ph.D. or M.F.A.) in record of research and teaching; ability to teach theory and hands -on courses in undergraduate and grad- relevant field; significant undergraduate teaching uate broadcast journalism program; knowledge of the industry, and love of teaching. and advising experience; a commitment to Florida A &M University (FAMU), founded in 1887, was the 1998 Time/Princeton Review College of the teaching video production in a strongly liberal Year. It enrolls 13,000 students from the baccalaureate to Ph.D. level. The School of Journalism, Media arts -based program; and a record of scholarship and Graphic Arts has 450 majors in two divisions. FAMU is an equal opportunity employer. and/or professional achievement. The ability to Positions will remain open until filled. Apply ASAP to: develop and teach courses in production Robert M. Ruggles, Dean management, writing and related areas is School of Journalism, Media and Graphic Arts a plus. Salary is competitive, with excellent fringe 108 Tucker Hall benefits. Florida A &M University Please submit cover letter and resume and Tallahassee, FL 32307 -4800 arrange for three confidential letters of recom- mendation to be sent by December 1, 2000, to: BROADCAST PRODUCTION Dr. Sybil DelGaudio, Chair of AudioNideo/Film ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Department School of Communication The Communication Department seeks candidates for an assistant professor (tenure track) in broadcast 318 Dempster Hall to the production. Position begins August 2001.Research and publication agenda is expected, with service 111 Hofstra University college and community. Competitive salary with excellent benefits. Hempstead NY 11549 -110 Required Qualifications: Terminal degree and demonstrated professional experience in broadcast or video Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer. production; ABD appointment considered at the lecturer level with expected completion of dissertation within first year of employment. Able to teach: Beginning TV Studio Operations, Advanced TV Production, Electronic News Gathering, Nonlinear Editing. Advertise in the Preferred Qualifications: Ability to teach: Radio Production, Television Directing and Producing, Broadcast Field Reporting, or Broadcast Copywriting, plus an ability to supervise student productions and interns. The Professional Cards Communication Department offers professionally- oriented major programs in journalism, broadcasting, public communication (public relations and advertising), and mass media, plus minor programs in speech and writing. The department has more than 400 majors and 14 full -time faculty. Buffalo State is the largest and Services Section four -year comprehensive college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It is located in the media center of Western New York; the area offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities. and get the Review of applications will begin November 27, 2000 and continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application, vita, VHS videotape with samples of production work, and names and telephone numbers of RESULTS YOU NEED! 3 references to: Dr. Janet Ramsey, Chair, Communication Department, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222. Learn more about Buffalo State and the Communication Department at Call 617 -558 -4532 http: //www.buffalostate.edu / -com. A commitment to the mission and core values of Buffalo State is expected. Buffalo State is an affirmative or 617 -558 -4481 action/equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women, racial /ethnic minorities, for more information. persons with disabilities, and Vietnam -era veterans. ® Director Peabody Awards The University of Georgia invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of the Peabody Awards and Lambdin Kay Distinguished Professor of Telecommunications, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. The George Foster Peabody Awards, established in 1939 and first awarded for programs aired in 1940, recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by radio and television networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations and individuals/ The awards pro- gram is administered by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. The Director is responsible for the yearly solicitation, evaluation, selection, and presentation of the Peabody Awards, including production of the awards ceremony. The successful applicant will also represent Peabody nationally and internationally, engage in fund raising, and administer the Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award. The Director is a faculty member within the Department of Telecommunications and teaches one course per year. Ph.D. preferred. The successful applicant must be eligible for appointment to the Lambdin Kay Professorship. To assure that nominations and applications will be considered they should be sent no later than October 31, 2000. Send applications and nominations to Dr. Alison Alexander, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602. The University of Georgia is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. For additional information, please see our Web site at www.grady.uga.edu.
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BUTLER UNIVERSITY CHAIRPERSON DEAN, JORDAN COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Indiana State University Department of Commu- We invite nominations and applications for the position of Dean. Jordan College of Fine Arts. the principal nication seeks chairperson at associate professor academic and administrative officer of the college reporting directly :o the University President. The Dean is or professor rank. Position available August 15. responsible for academic and artistic programs, financial planning and the daily operations of the college in Responsibilities: leading department; promoting consultation with its faculty and staff. cooperation among academic programs; teaching Specific Responsibilities in one of departments disciplines; engaging in The Dean of the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University sha l: appropriate scholarly/creative activity; and Formulate and articulate goals and objectives congruent with the mission of the College of Fine Arts and the increasing resources to maintain and augment University. departmental technology and instruction. Lead the college successfully in pursuit of its mission, by collaborating with faculty, students, staff and others, Qualifications: doctorate in appropriate discipline; by effectively delegating authority, and by securing the necessary resources. research /creative activity commensurate with Maintain and develop alliances with arts and educational organizations in Indianapolis, the region and beyond. rank; significant involvement in regionaVnational Encourage and facilitate the college's ongoing efforts in program and curriculum development, in preparing professional organizations; experience building Butler students to be viable, creative contributors to the arts community and society. consensus among colleagues; and evidence of Foster an atmosphere in which teaching excellence is valued and rewarded; encourage innovative teaching outstanding teaching and communication skills. and learning techniques; and oversee programs that promote faculty development. Professional experience in broadcasting, film, Encourage and support creative and scholarly endeavors among faculty, students and staff within the college. journalism, public relations, advertising or new Promote collaboration among the academic departments within the College, between the College and the media is desirable. Department has 18 full -time University, and with the arts and educational organizations in Indianapolis. faculty in four degree programs: Radio/TV /Film, Manage the budget of the college and ensure that sufficient resources are available to maintain and further Communication Studies/Public Relations, develop an excellent school of the arts. Managerial Communication, and Journalism. Seek outside sources of funding, grants, and similar opportun.ties in cooperation with the Office of Send letter of application, vita, three original, Development. current reference letters and a statement of 300- Expected Credentials: 500 words discussing the interrelationship of Candidates should have terminal degree or significant professional and leadership experience in any of the communication studies and professional mass fields in the College; educational, scholarly and creative achievemerts commensurate with appointment as media programs in a multidisciplinary department a full professor at Butler University, and appropriate administrative experience, including responsibility for to Chair Search Committee, Department of budgeting, program/curriculum development and personnel management. The candidate's record should Communication, Indiana State University, Terre also show clear evidence of a strong and collegial leadership style with students, faculty, staff, administra- Haute, IN 47809. Application review will begin tion, alumni and community. January 15 and continue until position filled. About the College: (wwwíndstate.edu) ISU is an EO /AA and ADA employer and actively committed Jordan College of Fine Arts is the home of nationally and internationally recognized undergraduate to diversity. programs in music, dance, theatre, telecommunication arts, arts administration, and graduate programs in music. Over fifty faculty members and artists provide students with specialized and integrated training in the arts while helping them develop a lifetime commitment to creativity and communication. The college is VISITING FACULTY vitally connected to the Indianapolis community through its faculty sc:nolars and artists, student performanc- Syracuse University's Newhouse School es and internships, cable and broadcast television, and the varied programs at the Clowes Memorial Hall. announces a Visiting Faculty opening starting in For more information. visit www butler.edu/jcfa. January 2001 (2 -3 year appointment) in the About the University: Television, Radio & Film Department. Butler University is a dynamic, private, comprehensive institution of over 4000 students which is in an Candidates should have experience working on exciting period of growth in size, resources and quality. Colleges include the Jordan College of Fine Arts, nationally and/or internationally distributed pro- Liberal Arts and Sciences. Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Business Administration, and Education. More grams or films, and a thorough knowledge of pro- information about Butler and Indianapolis is available at www.butler.edu. duction processes. The hiring committee will look Formal review of candidates will begin on December 15, 2000, and will continue until the position is filled. favorably on candidates who demonstrate extra Applicants should submit a letter indicating their interest, curriculum vitae, and the names, addresses, and dimension in any of the following areas: telephone numbers of at least three references who may be invited to contribute letters and commentary. Audio Production, International Communication, Please submit applications to: Multimedia, Radio/Television News. Teaching Douglas Simpkins experience, as well as MA (or equivalent) Organizational Development preferred. Women and Minorities are encour- Butler University aged to apply. Send cover letter and CV to Dr. 4600 Sunset Avenue Micael Schoonmaker, Chair Television, Radio & Indianapolis, IN 46208 Film Department, Newhouse School, Syracuse Butler is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and committed to diversity University, Syracuse, New York 13244 -2100. Email: trf @ syr edu Deadline 11/20'00. EOE
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WINNING QUALITY NEWS? 11 p.m. newscast in May of '99. In the early - simple product.
Editor: Because Carol Marin's "back -to- basics" evening newscasts, WESH -TV's numbers are grow- More than once, I have simply hit the power
news approach at weBM -TV in Chicago didn't ing slowly and steadily. I think they're in the switch on my PC when I got the dreaded succeed (see story, page 28), it would be right place to contend for local news leader- "winsock.dll fatal error! Yes, no, cancel." Yes, wrong to think that the idea of quality news ship in Orlando. no or cancel what?
coverage does not, nor will not, lead to ratings So is WESH -TV's agenda of quality news cover- I'm with you. Give me old -fashioned tactile
success and long -term market dominance. age working? We all know how hard news -view- pleasing paper. First, I have not seen any of Marin's news- ing habits are to change, and, considering the Love the magazine. Been reading it since the casts, but even her supporters criticized their grip that the No. 1 station had on the market days of Sol and Larry [Taishoff]. Keep it up.
look and production values. It would be a for 20 years, I'd say all signs are pointing to -Jim Withers, Chief Technical Officer, Veil shame if they failed because they were boring success in time. -Paul Greeley, former creative Interactive Technologies, St. Louis
or someone forgot to be visual. services director, WESH -TV Orlando, Fla. Second, I know personally of several stations Editor: I couldn't agree more with your where quality journalism has always been the TIMING THE WORLD SERIES thoughts as expressed in "Forswearing
rule. wwL -ry New Orleans and WINK -TV Fort Myers, Editor: Regarding [Harry Jessell's] column in Geekiness" (Oct. 30). It reminds me of an even
Fla., have a long history of ratings dominance. the Oct. 23 issue titled "Wake -Up Call," your better illustration.
For a recent example of how the strategy of comments reflect those of an unthinking East When a person goes to the hardware store quality journalism can fare, look to Orlando, Fla. Coaster. The 5:18 p.m. start time of the World to buy a drill, what does he want? The answer a In 1997, WESH, the WNBC affiliate there, publicly Series games suits us West Coasters just fine. is not a drill but a hole. When I buy comput- pledged to cover news responsibly, to be more Or, at least better than, say, a 2:18 p.m. start er, I don't really want a computer; I want a issue- driven, more balanced and relevant to time as you might prefer. You see, at 2:18 p.m. letter, or a budget, or a newsletter. But this viewers. Back then, many parents wouldn't let we would still be at the office, unable to tune line of thought must be tempered by the real- their kids watch local news. That's how crime - in to the Fall Classic. ization that today's computers are at about driven, graphic, scary, sexy and sensationalistic No, this way, at least, by rushing home right the same stage of development as television
news coverage was in Orlando at the time. at 5 p.m. and battling rush -hour traffic, we sets were in the 19505. Think about those
Since 1997, WESH -TV's GM, Bill Bauman, his wouldn't miss more than an inning or so and hypersensitive horizontal- and vertical-hold
news director, Russ Kilgore, and their staff have still catch the World Series on TV! Your way, we adjustments, "warming up" the tubes or been doing what the local paper called "jour- would only get to catch the highlights on the replacing the tubes at the tube tester at the nalism, not nonsense." They've endured weak evening news. grocery store. When a new TV set was pur- lead -in programming to their early- evening Next time, you might wish to consider that chased or an operating problem was more dif-
newscasts and a corporate- ownership change in there are three other time zones beyond your ficult, the TV repair "man" made a house call
the process. Their efforts have been praised by world out East. -Dennis Younker, San Diego to set up or adjust the set. the Orlando Sentinel, The Sunday New York Someday, two things will happen, and the
Times Magazine, TV Guide, and NBC News, to GETTING IT RIGHT computer industry will never be the same:
name a few. But the most satisfying response Editor: What a great commentary! First, the industry will realize that they're not
came from viewers, who deluged the station ( "Forswearing Geekiness," P.J. Bednarski col- selling drills, they're selling holes. Second, with letters, e-mails and phone calls; some umn's, Oct. 30) I have been a broadcast engi- computers will work with the reliability and stopped Bauman and other news staff on the neering manager for 30+ years and marvel at ease of operation that today's TV sets do. street to offer encouragement and compliments. how out of touch designers and engineers can -Mark Allen, president & CEO, Washington
So how is WESH -TV doing today? It won the be when putting together what should be a State Association of Broadcasters
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EDITORIAL /NEW YORK Harry A. Jessell /EoiroR/212- 337 -6964 Cashing in on a BET P.J. Bednarski /ExrcurivE EDITOR/212- 337 -6965 Stephen McClellan /DEPUTY EolroR /212- 337 -7023 John M. Higgins /DEPUTY EolroR /212- 337 -7024 The consolidation of TV networks continued at its brisk pace last week with the news that Susan Qualtrough /MANAGING EolroR /212- 463 -6432 Evette Porter /ASSISTANT MANAGING Eolroa /212- 337 -7148 Viacom would be absorbing BET and its related cable -programming holdings for $2.9 bil- Glen Dickson /AssacurE EorroR/212- 337 -6952 Richard Tedesco /Assocruor EDITOR /212- 337 -7025 lion. Both sides to the deal say that Bob Johnson and his management team will remain in Ken Kerschbaumer/AssoctarE Emroa /212- 337 -7011 flag. But don't count on that arrangement Deborah McAdams /Start WRrrER /212- 337 -7027 place to run the operation under the Viacom Patricia A. Carter/SENIoa Corr EDITOR /212- 337 -7143 lasting too long. BET fits nicely into Viacom's MTV Networks, and we suspect that that's Beatrice Williams- Rude /Copy Cotton/212-337-7140 P. Llanor Alleyne /Eon0RIAL ASSISTANT /212- 337 -7141 where it will eventually land. And with $1.4 billion worth of Viacom stock, Johnson should Liza Rodriguez /EDIIORIAL Assistant /212- 337 -7147 Beth Shapouri/EorroRIAL INTERN /212- 337 -7147 eventually land on the Viacom board, which could use an added dose of diversity. DESIGN /NEW YORK Todd J. Gast /ART DIRECroR /212- 337 -7017 Johnson has been fairly criticized over the past few years for programming BET on the Miguel Romero/Assistant ART DIREcroR /212- 337 -7144 cheap. Yes, the network could have been better. But it was always as good as it had to be, EDITORIAL /WASHINGTON Donald V. West /GROUP EDITOR IN CHIEF /202- 463 -3701 given the lack of competition. "Good as it had to be" is not a particularly high standard, John S. Eggerton /DEPurr EDITOR /202- 463 -3112 Dan Trigoboff/SENIOR EDnon /301- 260 -0923 but it prevails at a lot of businesses we know-media or otherwise. If not for Toyota, we Elizabeth A. Rathbun /AssociarE EDITOR /202- 463 -3709 Paige Albiniak /Asslsranr EorroR /202- 463.3708 might all be driving Pintos today. Bill McConnell / Asslsranr Eorron /202- 463 -3706 Kim McAvoy/CoeTRIRurING EDnon/540- 341 -4234 Johnson's Viacom deal may be his smartest move yet. For the first time, serious competi- Kira Greene /font :IRUnNG EDITOR /703 -524 -7793 famously high operating margins. In response to that Rick Higgs /Sysrues MANAGER /202- 463 -3718 tors have emerged, enticed by BET's Alisa Holmes /WEB PRODUCTION MANAGER /202- 463 -3703 challenge, BET boosted its programming budget. But once a member of the Viacom fami- Doris Kelly /OFFICE MANAGER /202- 463 -3711 EDITORIAL/LOS ANGELES ly, it will have sufficient resources, promotional might and cable-operator leverage to fend Joe Schlosser /BuREau CHIEF/323- 549 -4111 Susanne M. Ault /Start WRITER /323- 965 -5361 20 years, is safe. off anybody. BET's African- American franchise, built over ADVERTISING /NEW YORK We suspect that Johnson is not done making his mark on American business. But this is Denise O'Connor /AssocrarE PunumHER /212- 337 -6961 Yvonne Pettus /SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUrIVE /212- 337 -6945 a good time to congratulate him on his extraordinary success. As many an Internet entre- Michael Farina /AccauHr EXECUTIVE /212- 337 -6941 Rob Payne /Accounr ExscurlvE /212- 337 -7022 preneur has learned over the past six months, creating billions of dollars of wealth isn't so Tamika Brown /SALES CooameatoR /212- 337 -6940 Dana LeVitt /MARKETING SERVICES DIREcroR /212- 463 -6546 easy. It takes vision, intelligence, perseverance and salesmanship. Johnson has them all. Georgina Sculco/ART DIR.,CREATIVE SERVICES/212- 337.7154 ADVERTISING /LOS ANGELES Marcia Orcutt /ADVERTISING DIRECTOR, SvmorcAnon /323 -549 -4114 Eric Low /SaLEs CooRoINAroR /323 -549 -4113
Chuck BolkCOm /DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY ADVERTISING The idea is still alive 775- 852 -1290; Fax 775- 852 -1291; email: chuckbolk @aol.com ADVERTISING/ASIA We join the mourners for Carol Marin and WBBM -TV's experiment in late news, which, in the Yukari Media Inc. /Masayuki Harihara 81- 66956 -1125; Fax 81- 66956 -5015 words of the station, "disbanded" this week. We give credit and, when we can, encourage- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING /NEWTON. MASS ment to any effort that ranks quality as the highest priority. Ironically, only two days before Kristin Parker /Accounr ExecurrvE/866- 258 -1075 Neil Andrews /Account Exrcut:RE/866- 258 -1075 the final broadcast, Marin brought home a local Emmy for her work on the program. 275 Washington St., Newton, Mass. 02458; Fax 617- 630-3955 EVENTS But we will not mourn this as the death of quality in TV news. As Chicago viewers and Steve Labunski /DIREcroR, SPECIAL EvENrs /212- 337 -7158 other interested parties weighed in in local papers, there were comments that were both Sandy Friedman /SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR /212- 463 -6740 PRODUCTION /NEW YORK perceptive and predictable: too dry, too hard, too humorless, too centered on the anchor. Luis Mendes /PROOUcrroN MANAGER /212- 463 -6524 Justin Torres /PRODUCTION Assistant/212-463-6571 Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, in a letter to The New York Times, acknowledged CIRCULATION /NEW YORK some production flaws but concluded that TV news has "dumbed down" to meet its audi- John LaMarca/CIRCUUnox MANAGER /212- 337 -7080 SUBSCRIPTIONS /DELIVERY ence. We disagree- although, perhaps not as strongly as we'd like. BROADCASTING & CABLE: 800 -554 -5729 BROADCASTING & CABLE YEARBOOK: 800- 521 -8110 Are there stations-indeed, many stations-that pander to the lowest -common denomi- Camper: 800 -563 -9056, TV Fax: 800 -554 -5729 silly silly silly and reporters? Of course. FFICES nator and offer chat, stories and anchors New York: 245 W. 17th St., 10011 But there are also stations whose philosophy is to put on the best newscast they can, 212- 645 -0067; Edit Fax 212 -337 -7028; Ad Fax 212 -337 6948 Washington: 1627 K Street NW, 20006 adhering to the best practices and principles of journalism. As a disappointed but still 202 -463 -3711; Edit Fax 202- 463-3742 Los Angeles: 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 120, 90036 upbeat Marin herself told us last week, there are many stations doing great newscasts in 323 -549 -4100; Edit Fax 323 -937 -4240; Ad Fax 323- 937 -5272 this country, and, she said, graciously, WBBM -TV may still be one of them. The station has pledged to retain the quality of Marin's newscast, but in a way that's more viewer- friendly. Canners® CANNERS BUSINESS INFORMATION Chicago is a great news town. One of the obstacles the long - suffering WBBM -TV faced Marc Teren / CHIrF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Brian Nairn /CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER and still faces is the strong competition from other newscasts. The revamped newscast will Glenn Rogers /EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT ENTERTAINMENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA GROUP have to be good to do well. Dan Hart /VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE Sol Taishoff/FxuNDER AND EDITOR (1904 -1982)
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