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OF ANY STUDIO - 18! The Blood Diamond, The Departed, Happy Feet, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Good German, Poseidon, Superman Returns These Oscar® -nominees are available exclusively from Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution Cynopsis 1/24/07 Good Morning, it's Wednesday, January 24, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing. Recent reports indicate Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has joined the Tribune bidding process, teaming with Tribune Co. shareholder, the Chandler family. The Chandler main interest is in the newspaper properties owned by Tribune, of which there are 11, including the Long Island paper Newsday, a competitor to Murdoch's New York based The Post, and a publication Murdoch is reportedly most interested in gaining a stake. In this bid, Tribune Co. would sell off its 23 local broadcast station holdings. Tribune met over the weekend to review the three bids before it - the Chandler bid, private equity firm The Carlyle Group, and two LA-based billionaires Eli Broad and Ronald W. Burkle. Initially Tribune was most interested in selling as a single unit, tho each of the bids are more interested in specific parts. Tonight's Premiere: ABC: George Lopez at 8p
~ MORE GOOD
STUFF ~
The Greg Behrendt Show
will not be renewed for a second season. The Sony Pictures
Television series will finish out the season. According to TV Week,
the show's major launch group, Tribune, chose not to renew for Season #2, and
instead opted for NBC Universal's new daytimer with Jerry Springer bodyguard
Steve Wilkos. This is the third syndicated freshman show that has
officially been passed on for year two - the other two were The Megan Mullally
Show and Geraldo at Large. VERSUS will broadcast the first season of World Combat League (WCL), the first-ever martial arts team league founded by Chuck Norris last year. The first episode premieres Thursday at 11p, and, in total, VERSUS will air around 27 hours of WCL coverage in primetime in 2007. MTV has greenlit season two of its series Rob and Big for air on both MTV and MTV2 starting this second quarter. The eight new episodes will follow the daily lives of professional DC Shoes skateboarder, Rob Dyrdek and his bodyguard and best friend, Christopher "Big Black" Boykin in and around their Hollywood Hills home. Also at MTV, the network and Verizon Wireless announced a new event series titled MTV Live which will feature live artist performances. The monthly series will be recorded in front of a live audience at the Hard Rock Cafe NY in Times Square and will be presented across the MTV platforms, including MTV Mobile on V CAST. The first episode will premiere on February 6 at 1130p with a commercial-free performance by Fall Out Boy The series will be specifically customized for each screen with a live interactive text-to-screen element, video footage, and more.
~ UPFRONT 2007
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Oxygen is first out of
the gate by announcing a slew of new programming in development, and two
returning series - Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance for a third season; Fight
Girls returns in June: Reality Pilots include:
~ BROADBAND
& DIGITAL ~
Three new lifestyle video series are now available for free and on demand from AOL and Time Warner Global Media Group, in partnership with GMC. The programs include Cooking with Tyler Florence, Home Entertaining with Michele and Gia and Home Improvement with Eric Stromer, and all can be found on AOL's Living Channel at http://living.aol.com. Each of the 78 original 3-5 minute video episodes will include additional portable elements, step-by-step photos, audio podcasts, printable instructions and send-to-phone features. Each series will also integrate a GMC vehicle in the action, and the company will have TV commercials shown as pre-roll during half of the shows' streams in addition to GMC banner ads on the program's homepages. Judson Laipply, the motivational speaker who created the popular online video Evolution of Dance, has created a new media company called Let's Dance Media Inc. One of the first projects for the new company is the launch of an interactive broadband TV network called LiveLoud.TV happening today, which will contain several lifestyle channels and community elements where users can build profiles, upload video and audio and participate in blogs and more. Starz Entertainment and Starz Media, under a new multi-year content licensing and distribution agreement, will supply Starz Media movies and video titles for Vongo, the company's broadband video download vehicle. Vongo will receive more than 250 titles for VOD rental and its future electronic sell-through (EST) feature. Some of the titles include thirteen movies from season one of Masters of Horror series, The Evil Dead, plus the animated Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll and more than 50 episodes of Astro Boy among other titles.
~ PRODUCTION
& DEVELOPMENT ~
ABC has ordered up five - count them, five! - half-hour pilots:
Fox has ordered up another pilot - Deeply Irresponsible (wt) is a 30m format about a fairly rigid family who is thrown into bedlam when grandpa comes to live with them. Project is from 20th Century Fox TV. Also at Fox, casting has begun on the pilot project The Life and Times of Tim - the animated comedy will star Cheri Oteri, Kurtwood Smith and Matt Johnson.
~ EXECUTIVE
MOVES ~
Scripps Networks
Interactive has upped Ron Feinbaum to EVP/Business
Development to spotlight new business and acquisition opportunities that
fit the Scripps Networks brands including HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, FINE
LIVING TV Network and Great American Country.Suzanne Dunn has joined Concrete Pictures as VP/Interactive Business Development in the company's Santa Monica office. She will be charged with heading development opportunities for content distribution involving broadband, wireless and interactive TV platforms. CBS Interactive has appointed Stephen E. Snyder as COO for the new division, reporting to Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive. Stephen will supervise all operations of the division's web sites that include cbs.com, CBSNews.com, CBS SportsLine.com among others. Eclipse Marketing Services, Inc. has made several new staffing appointments:
BET Networks named Scott Mills as President of the newly created Digital Media Group. He will continue in his role as BET Networks' CFO in addition to his new responsibilities managing digital brands and digital strategy development and implementation. These cover BET's current digital assets including BET.com, BET on Blast, BET on Demand, BET Mobile and a digital VOD service. Sony Pictures Television has announced three key promotions in its advertising sales division based in New York City:
ABC Family has named Laura Kuhn as VP/Sales Marketing and Promotions to spearhead all sales marketing activities for the network and its developing digital properties. In addition, Danielle Hughes has been hired as Director/Sales Development to manage the creation of sales marketing materials, trade, events and collateral for the network. Both are based at ABC Family's New York office.
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Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings
among A18-49 for the week of 1/15-1/21/07Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000) USA 1113 TNT 574 TNT 829 TBSC 553 TBSC 828 NICK 549 DISC 767 USA 548 AEN 752 ADSM* 524 FX 733 AEN 522 CMDY 618 NAN* 511 AMC 605 LIF 465 SCIF 577 FX 427 TLC 562 DISC 407 Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data. All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 homes * = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p) Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the week of 1/15-1/21/07 Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000) USA 2731 NICK 2270 TNT 1980 USA 1275 AMC 1633 NAN* 1256 AEN 1567 TNT 1250 FOXN 1533 TOON 1106 TBSC 1439 ADSM* 1098 NAN 1431 AEN 1042 DISC 1415 LIF 995 LIF 1358 TBSC 923 TOON 1315 FOXN 881 Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data. All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 homes * = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p) Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of 1/15-1/21/07 USA WWE Entertainment – 10p 3004 USA WWE Entertainment – 9p 2679 BRAV Top Chef 2045 MTV RW/RR The Duel 1976 VH1 I Love New York 1974 ESPN NFL Countdown 1827 TNT Deep Impact 1771 USA Monk 1715 ESPN NFL Prime Time 1714 MTV The Hills 1678 Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data. All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 homes Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of 1/15-1/21/07 CBS AFC Championship on CBS 23,046 FOX American Idol - Tuesday 20,610 FOX American Idol - Wednesday 20,207 ABC Grey's Anatomy 11,413 CBS CSI 9,050 ABC Desperate Housewives 8,693 NBC Golden Globe Awards 8,492 FOX 24 7,762 ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 6,326 NBC Law & Order: SVU 6,189 CBS Without a Trace 6,128 Source Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data Monday - A18-49 Analysis: NBC racked up a win Monday night with 5.0/12 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. On this night, FOX was second at 4.8/11, and then CBS 4.6/11, ABC 3.2/8, UNIV 1.9/5, CW 1.1/3 and TELE 0.4/1. NBC had the best ratings during 8p with Deal or No Deal at 5.2/13, while FOX's season premiere of Prison Break came in second at 4.2/10. At 9p, NBC topped the chart again with Heroes at 6.5/15. CBS resumed its 10p winning slot with CSI: Miami delivering a 6.0/15. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, January 22, 2007 - time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research CBS 9.0/14 How I Met Your Mother 6.0/9, The Class 5.7/8, Two and a Half Men 10.1/14, Old Christine 8.4/12, CSI: Miami 12.0/19 NBC 8.0/12 Deal or No Deal 10.7/16, Heroes 8.5/12, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 4.7/8 FOX 7.4/11 Prison Break [p] 6.2/9, 24 8.6/12 ABC 5.2/8 Wife Swap 5.8/9, Supernanny 6.0/9, What About Brian? 3.9/6 UNIV 2.4/4 La Fea Más Bella 3.0/4, Mundo de Fieras 2.3/3, Cristina 2.0/3 CW 1.7/2 Everybody Hates Chris 1.9/3, All of Us 1.7/2, Girlfriends 1.6/2, The Game 1.6/2 TELE 0.5/1 Marina 0.7/1, Amor mio 0.6/1, Amor Mio 0.5/1, Decisiones 0.4/1 A18-49: NBC 5.0/12, FOX 4.8/11, CBS 4.6/11, ABC 3.2/8, UNIV 1.9/5, CW 1.1/3, TELE 0.4/1 A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM BRAVO watch what happens on BRAVO Tonight @ 10p/9c TOP CHEF - The Biggest Food Show in Cable History!!
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