With New Show, 'Friends' Co-Creator Flames Network TV And Burns Bridges
2010-07-30 08:06:54
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Quote: “You sit in a room and come up with funny stuff and then it’s on television.†By comparison, he described his last project, CBS dud The Class, as one that made him feel like “a puppy in a dryer; it was just torture." And nearly two decades later, he and Mad About You actor John Pankow, who has a major role in Episodes, are still fuming about the 45 or so Columbia Tristar executives who would follow them around from run-through to run-through during Mad's early seasons.
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Read articleCBS Chief: Stability Is A Good Thing
2010-07-29 03:51:07
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Quote: CBS lacks the buzz of competitors like Modern Family and Glee, and the executive shake-ups of rivals like NBC and ABC. What it has instead are viewers -- more of them than any other broadcast net, according to the Nielsen Company.
In fact, the Tiffany network rounded out another television season no. 1 in total viewers, a title it has held for seven of the last eight seasons. (For the advertiser-beloved 18-to-49-year-old demo, it ranks second behind Fox.) What its offerings lack in pop-cultural ...
Read article'Big Bang Theory' Boss Debunks Our Myths
2010-07-29 03:51:06
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Quote: "One assumes they’ve given it a lot of thought and it’s a good thing for the show -- given where we are now after three seasons, I’d be crazy to argue with
the choices that CBS has made along the way," he says. "Our job is to make a good job, its not to the program the show."
Myth no. 4: Lorre wastes the time he isn't writing and producing worrying about his cast's desires --and, increasingly, demands-- for more money.
While stars (and the reporters who cover them) often ob...
Read articleFrom Homosexuality To Scientology, 'Talk' Hosts Take Our Questions
2010-07-29 03:51:05
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Quote: During a morning session at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour, the six co-hosts of CBS’ upcoming daytime talk show got an early taste for addressing uncomfortable subjects before an audience.
On stage to field questions about their recently announced View-like round-table series, The Talk, moms Leah Remini, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, Marissa Jaret Winokur and creator and co-host Sara Gilbert, found no subject ranging from homosexual...
Read articleBehind Disney's Digital Shopping Spree
2010-07-29 03:51:04
Keywords: Disney, acquisitions, Playdom, Bob Iger, online games, social games, mobile games, Facebook, MySpace, Club Penguin, Wideload Games, Tapulous, virtual goods, product tie-ins, John Pleasants, Steve Wadsworth, Steve Jobs, Sheryl Sandberg, Gina Bianchini
Quote: Since then Disney has increased its presence on the social network and experimented with using it to sell tickets to the Pixar movie Toy Story 3.
NWSCBS) stopped breaking out results for interactive after that unit lost $41.3 million during the first nine months of 2009.
Could Disney's acquisitions put it on track to make some money online? "It's the right strategy for Disney to buy," says Gina Bianchini, a venture capitalist who co-founded the social network Ning.com with Marc Andr...
Read articleIs The Stock Market Rigged?
2010-07-28 09:51:16
Keywords: stock, market, rigged, personal, finance
Quote: Set aside an hour a week to review business news and trends and read the readily available research reports and profiles on sites such as Yahoo!YHOOnewspeople) Finance and CBSCBSnewspeople) Market watch. Furthermore, it is important to keep a watchful eye over your investments and set a stop loss regardless of how much you like the company you own. Many people get wiped out of the stock market because they do not set stop losses on their investments. Of course, many investors use diversified ind...
Read articleABC's "Desperate" Future
2010-07-28 09:51:15
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Quote: 1 CBS and no. 2 Fox. For perspective, Housewives drew 14.1 million viewers, on average, during its sixth season, a significant dip from the 15.9 million it garnered a year earlier but enough to make it no. 13 among prime-time broadcast shows.
Of course, when the network makes its decision to walk away from the long-running series, Cherry says he intends to swoop back in and help craft the show's final arc. A big fan of Harry Potter, he says he was taken by the idea that author JK Rowling had...
Read articleTherese Poletti's Tech Tales: Tech backlash books should be part of summer reads
2010-07-27 06:09:14
Keywords: Commentary, AMZN, Amazon.com Inc, AAPL, Apple Inc, NWS, News Corp, CBS, CBS Corp
Quote: They had a gadget to help, though, which Hamlet referred to as his "tables" in the play by William Shakespeare, a small booklet with hard covers, and it opened up to a plaster-like surface that you could jot things down with a stylus, and at the end of the day, it could be wiped clean."It was a fantastic gadget that helped people feel a little bit freer from their overload," Powers said in a recent interview with CBS/quotes/comstock/13*!cbs/quotes/nls/cbs(CBS15.00,+0.38,+2.60%) Evening News anch...
Read articleStudy: MTV leads in showing gay characters on TV
2010-07-26 04:02:32
Keywords: Study: MTV leads in showing gay characters on TV, cbs,dis,ge,twx,via-b
Quote: CBS' 7 percent earned that network a "Failing" grade from the report.Scoring high on cable along with MTV were ABC Family (37 percent), TNT (34 percent), Showtime (32 percent), Lifetime (31 percent) and HBO (26 percent), which all received a "Good" rating. The report assigned a "Failing" grade to USA (4 percent), A&E (3 percent) and TBS (2 percent).GLAAD reviewed all prime-time programming -- totaling 4,787.5 hours -- on the major broadcast networks between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010. The stu...
Read articleNYSE stocks posting largest volume increases
2010-07-26 04:02:31
Keywords: NYSE stocks posting largest volume increases, acf,bec,bxs,cbs,gap,gef,peb,rst,voq,wl
Quote: The shares rose $12.64 or 21.1 percent to $47.26.CBS Corp A : Approximately 96,900 shares changed hands, a 486.0 percent increase over its 65-day average volume. The shares rose $.50 or 3.5 percent to $14.70.Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. : Approximately 7,863,900 shares changed hands, a 900.3 percent increase over its 65-day average volume. The shares rose $1.32 or 33.6 percent to $2.61.Greif Inc B : Approximately 43,400 shares changed hands, a 630.1 percent increase over its 65-day average v...
Read articleGlam Media Buys Ad Tech Startup AdPortal
2010-07-26 04:02:31
Keywords: Glam Media Buys Ad Tech Startup AdPortal, cbs,twx, venture-capital
Quote: Glam MediaAdPortalit launched in June.NYSE: CBSNYSE: TWX), use it to run self-service ad sales portals, which let advertisers purchase ad inventory on their sites by audience and geography, among other categories.a release, Glam Media says it will integrate AdPortal’s technology into GlamAdapt, which it says has been used by more than 500 brand advertisers since launch. AdPortal CEO Robert Tas is joining Glam Media as VP of the GlamAdapt platform, and the startup’s San Francisco-ba...
Read articleWhere Gibson tapes circulate online, jokes follow
2010-07-23 02:42:59
Keywords: Where Gibson tapes circulate online, jokes follow, cbs,ge
Quote: They really should have saved it for sweeps," Stangel said, referring to the period when ad time is priced for TV programming.Late night shows have put the subject in heavy rotation, none perhaps as much at CBS' "Late Show."Letterman has joked that the biggest problem of Apple's iPhone 4 is that it "only accepts calls from Mel Gibson." He has claimed the number one excuse for Gibson is that he "wanted to show the Jews I'm an equal-opportunity offender." And on Tuesday, the show suggested a more ...
Read articleUPDATE - Akeena loss narrows; shares surge 14 percent
2010-07-23 02:42:59
Keywords: Environment,Emissions,Renewable energy,Utilities,United States of America,Broadcasting,Media (industry),Corporate Results,Corporate Results Forecasts,Energy,Cyclical consumer services,General News,Nature Society and Science,Company News item,Economic news
Quote: In May, the company signed a deal to manufacture, market
and install solar panels under the Westinghouse name, which is
controlled by CBS Corp (CBS.N). Shares of Akeena jumped 14 percent in premarket trade to 98
cents.(Reporting by Matt Daily; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)......
Read articleWill Sumner Redstone Ever Grow Up?
2010-07-22 01:35:24
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Quote: In the ongoing discussion over whether or not Sumner Redstone is growing too old to run his media empire, add this: A rambling attempt to get Daily Beast writer Peter Lauria to tell him the source of a story about Redstone's attempts to get MTV to air a reality TV show about "The Electric Barbarellas," a hot girl band trying to make it big in Hollywood.
On a voicemail he left Lauria (well worth a listen), the 87-year-old chairman of Viacom and CBS, pulls out his best Michael Corleone, telling La...
Read articleCBS to launch celebrity-hosted daytime talk show
2010-07-22 01:35:19
Keywords: CBS to launch celebrity-hosted daytime talk show, cbs
Quote: LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CBS will take a new view of daytime after the end of "As the World Turns."When the soap opera concludes its 54-year run in September, it will be replaced by an hour-long daily talk show with six celebrity co-hosts -- all women, an echo of ABC's popular "The View" series.CBS announced Wednesday that the hosts of the as-yet untitled daytime show include Sharon Osbourne; Sara Gilbert of TV's "Roseanne" fame; Holly Robinson Peete from "Celebrity Apprentice;" Broadway actress Mari...
Read articleAT&T U-Verse Reaches Deal to Keep AMC,' Mad Men'
2010-07-20 06:38:29
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: Averting a standoff over programming fees, AT&Treported.
Last-minute negotiations with Rainbow Media, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems, resulted in a deal after the previous arrangement expired at midnight on Wednesday.
Both sides had agreed to keep the signals going while talks continued.
A disagreement could have resulted in U-verse TV subscribers in 22 states being unable to watch the season premiere of the popular AMC show ”Mad Men” on July 25.
Terms were not released, but...
Read articleAnalytical Opinions on Viacom & CBS -- Strategies for Survival
2010-07-20 06:38:28
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Quote: Meanwhile Broadcasting Giant CBS Corporation CBSNews) has been taking steps to diversify and revamp the radio arm of their media holdings. Complimentary report on CBS Corporation can be accessed at http://www.rothmanresearch.com/article/cbs/23688/Jul-19-2010.htmlCBS announced last Friday that their Radio.com platform will give listeners access to over 600 stations. This move comes as companies try to find ways to stop radio broadcast ad revenues from declining. Ad revenues have plummeted over th...
Read articleUPDATE - U.S. court strikes down FCC indecency policy
2010-07-15 03:05:53
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Quote: News Corp's (NWSA.O) Fox Television, CBS Corp's (CBS.N) CBS
Broadcasting and others challenged an FCC ruling in 2004 that
on-air expletives that were not bleeped out were indecent and
their use could be penalized. The FCC regulates radio, television, wire, satellite and
cable communications. In a statement, chairman Julius
Genachowski said: "We're reviewing the court's decision in
light of our commitment to protect children, empower parents,
and uphold the First Amendment." The U.S. Supreme Cour...
Read articleThe media battles Chevron over first-amendment rights
2010-07-15 03:05:52
Keywords: chevron, crude, berlinger, first amendment, documentary, ecuador, texaco
Quote: Chevron: Bring it onDocumentarian Joe Berlinger filming "Crude" in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
By Alex Konrad, contributorJuly 14, 2010: 5:24 AM ETCrude -- even if not for the right reasons.Super Size MeCBSFortune 500FortuneTWXFortune 500New York TimesWashington Post, and other media powerhouses have filed amicus curiae briefs in what they see as a First Amendment test case. They fear a ruling for Chevron could weaken what's called journalist's privilege, making it easier for third parties to force j...
Read articleHulu Plus: Not worth it. Yet.
2010-07-15 03:05:51
Quote: While NBC, ABC and FOX are on-board, CBS (CBS) has yet to cut a deal with Hulu, so none of its shows can be found on the site. Same thing goes for cable networks like USA and HBO (which, like Fortune, is owned by Time Warner). What cooperating networks have made available is oddly hit-or-miss, too: currently, Hulu Plus users only have access to the 25 most recent episodes of Lost, but on abc.com, every single episode is watchable -- for free.
As for those iPad and iPhone apps, I should give cred...
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