Good morning. It's
Friday, March 5, 2004,
and this is your first early morning
briefing.
Comedy Central has assigned distribution duties of its signature
series South Park to Tribune Entertainment Company and
Debmar Studios. Debmar will distribute to the Top 30 US TV
markets, while Tribune will take care of the rest of the markets as well
as oversee ad sales. South Park is looking at an off-net
syndication debut in Fall 2005 and thus far has been cleared in 19 of the
top 20 markets including WPIX/NY, KCAL/LA, WCIU/Chicago, WPSG/Philly,
KBHK/San Francisco, for a total clearance to date of 60%. Terms are
cash + 1-1/2m
Premiering Tonight: The WB - The Help at
930p
New in Development and Casting:
Sci Fi Channel has cast Daniel Baldwin and Sam Trammel in a
two hour original movie (also to be used as a pilot) called Anonymous Rex
(USACE). The story is based on Eric Garcia's futurist mystery
novels Casual Rex wherein dinosaurs evolve into human sized creatures and
roam the Earth disguised as humans. Anonymous Rex focuses on two
dinosaur/human partners who are high tech private eyes.
Production is set to begin later on this month in Toronto.
NBC's limited series Revelations (Pariah) has added Bill
Pullman and Natascha McElhone as the two leads. The story is the showdown
between God and Satan as represented in the Bible's Book of Revelations.
The story follows the investigation of a murdered college professor by a
nun who believes the stories in the Bible are coming true; she recruits
Pullman's character to help her. In the net's pilot comedy Never
Mind Nirvana (Untitled/NBC Studios), Kal Penn has been cast as an
Indian-American doctor whose immigrant parents come to live with him and
his Caucasian wife.
WB's drama pilot Prodigy (Silver Pictures/Warner Bros. TV) has
added Marley Shelton to the growing cast that also includes Cody Arens
and Stacy Edwards.
Sources: BaselineFT.com, Hollywood Reporter, Variety
National Geographic Channel presented its plans for the upcoming
season last night at its first Upfront presentations to
advertisers. National Geo is now 3 years old and in 50 million
homes. New original programs include drama/doc Interpol about the innards
of the international police; Mayday! highlight disastrous moments in the
air; Seconds from Disaster takes a look at catastrophic disasters in the
moments before they happened such as Chernobyl; Mega Structures will look
at some of the most amazing building on the planet and the architects and
builders who constructed them; and Into the Unknown which looks at thus
far unexplained natural phenomena and "unexplained ancient and
modern puzzles" such as Stonehenge. Ad revenues projections as
estimated by Kagan World Media for 2004 are up by 32% (over $31.2 million
in 2003) thanks in part to new advertisers such as Honda Motor's Acura,
Toyota Motor's Lexus and Porsche.
Oops - there goes another one. Radio commentator Sandra Tsing
Loh was unceremoniously dismissed from her six year job at KCRW-FM
for using inappropriate language during her 3m radio commentary, despite
her claims the error lies with the radio station. Loh says her item
did include the f-word, but it was preplanned that the engineer would
bleep the word, which apparently didn't happen. The station GM,
Ruth Seymour says it is Loh's responsibility to "deliver a program
ready for broadcast." Loh is also a commentator for Minnesota
Public Radio's Marketplace, and a reviewers for the Atlantic Monthly,
both jobs she'll keep. Earlier this week Clear Channel wrote a
check for $755,000 for inappropriate language from their former DJ Bubba
the Love Sponge. That amount represents 26 violations at $27,500
per violation. Good thing they occurred before the violation fee was
upped to $500,000 per incident.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week
of Feb 16-22, 2004
ranked by HH
Rtg Wheel of Fortune (King
World)
9.8 AA
Jeopardy (King
World) 7.8
AA
Oprah (King
World) 7.6
AA / 7.7 GAA
Seinfeld
(Sony) 6.5
AA / 8.1 GAA
Friends (Warner
Bros.) 6.4
AA / 7.7 GAA
Entertainment Tonight
(Paramount) 6.1
AA / 6.2 GAA
Dr. Phil (King
World) 5.6
AA / 5.7 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (King
World) 5.4 AA / 6.1 GAA
Judge Judy
(Paramount) 5.4
AA / 8.0 GAA
Regis and Kelly
(BVT) 4.0
AA
That 70's
Show (Carsey-Werner) 4.0 AA
/ 5.1 GAA Source Nielsen Media Research
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week
ofFeb 16-22, 2004
ranked by A18-49 Seinfeld
(Sony) 4.4
AA / 5.5 GAA
Friends (Warner
Bros.) 4.4
AA / 5.4 GAA
Oprah (King
World) 3.4
AA / 3.4 GAA
Wheel of Fortune (King
World) 3.0
AA
Entertainment Tonight
(Paramount) 2.9
AA / 3.0 GAA
Everybody Loves Raymond (King
World) 2.8 AA / 3.1 GAA
That 70's Show (Carsey-Werner) 2.7 AA / 3.
GAA
Will & Grace (Warner
Bros.) 2.4
AA / 2.8 GAA
Dr. Phil (King
World) 2.4
AA / 2.4 GAA
Jeopardy (King
World) 2.2
AA Source Nielsen Media Research
Hugh Jackman ("Boys from Oz") has been tapped as the
host for this year's 54th Annual Tony Awards, airing on
CBS June 6, live from Radio City Music Hall. Pundits also
predict Jackman will be in line for a Best Actor in a Musical Tony
himself, while his show, Boys from Oz, will most likely not get the
nod.
Janet Jackson returns to television for the first time since
"the incident" on April 10 as host of Saturday Night
Live. She last appeared on the show as a musical guest in
1994.
Top 5 Broadcast Spanish Language Primetime Programs for the week
of Feb 23-29, 2004 UNIV Premio
Lo Nuestro 2004 (Thur
8p) 27.4
NHTI HH Rtg
UNIV Velo De
Novia (Tue
8p) 25.0
NHTI HH Rtg
UNIV Noche De Estrellas (Thurs
7p) 24.9 NHTI HH Rtg
UNIV Velo De
Novia (Mon
8p) 23.4
NHTI HH Rtg
UNIV Velo De
Novia (Wed
8p) 22.4 NHTI HH
Rtg Source Nielsen Media Research
Note NHTI Ratings are based on 10.57 million Hispanic TV
Homes
African American television homes in the US represent
12,870,000 households. Here are the rankings for the week
of Feb 23-29, 2004
- highest rated primetime network programs in
African American TV homes according to Nielsen Media Research
UPN Eve (Mon
830p) 19.1
HH Rtg / 3.2m Total Viewers 2+
FOX American Idol
(Tue) 18.6
HH Rtg / 3.4m Total Viewers 2+
UPN America's Next Top Model
(Tue 9p) 18.2 HH
Rtg / 3.2m Total Viewers 2+
UPN Half & Half (Mon
930p) 17.8
HH Rtg / 2.8m Total Viewers 2+
UPN Girlfriends (Mon
9p) 17.7
HH Rtg / 2.8m Total Viewers 2+
UPN All of Us (Tue
8p) 16.1
HH Rtg / 2.7m Total Viewers 2+
ABC My Wife & Kids (Wed
8p) 16.0
HH Rtg / 2.6m Total Viewers 2+
UPN The Parkers (Mon
8p) 15.8
HH Rtg / 2.6m Total Viewers 2+
FOX American Idol
(Wed) 15.6
HH Rtg / 2.9m Total Viewers 2+
ABC Academy Awards (Sun
830p) 14.5
HH Rtg / 2.6m Total Viewers 2+ Source Nielsen Media Research
ABC won the night on Wednesday with its 2-hour premiere
of Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital airing from 9-11p. For the night
ABC delivered a 4.8/13 A18-49 rating according to Nielsen Media
Research, followed by NBC 4.0/10, CBS 3.7/10, WB 2.0/5, UPN
1.5/4. At 8pm Fox's That 70's Show (4.6/13) and American Idol
(8.5/22) owned the hour with a collective 6.5/18 for the hour. ABC's hour
long episode of My Wife and Kids was #2 for the hour with a 3.4/9
followed the repeat ep of The Apprentice on NBC (2.8/8). ABC's
Kingdom Hospital delivered a 5.5/14, outpacing all other programming
during the two hour premiere event. King of Queens and a repeat of
Raymond averaged a 4.2/10; where as CSI [r] at 10p found just 3.9/10
rating. West Wing earned a 3.9/10, and Law & Order came closes to
Kingdom with a 5.1/13 at 10p. The OC on Fox earned a 4.7/12.
Knoxville is getting a new high powered VHF television station on
June 30, 2004, WMAK-DT. And it will originate as well as
pass through HDTV programming, the first such station in the market, or
in the state. Channel 7 will be headed by Lewis Cosby as
Pres/GM; David Williams as Station Mgr and Rogan Oliver as Asst
GM/GSM. Both David and Rogan make the move to Channel 7 from
local station WBXX. This station marks the third Lewis Cosby has
signed on in the market - the other two were WVLT and WBXX.
Lew Leone, VP/GM of WCBS has been upped to
President/GM. The announcement was made by Fred Reynolds,
Pres/CEO of the Viacom Television Stations Group. Lew has been with
WCBS since 2002.
Neal Tiles has been named EVP/Marketing at
DirecTV. The announcement was made by Mitchell Stern,
Pres/CEO. Neal's responsibilities include advertising and brand
management, creative services and on-air promotion strategy and
initiatives.
Wednesday, March 3, 2004. Fast
Affiliate Household Ratings
for all Networks.
Fast affiliate numbers which reflect time period
data, not program data, and can change slightly once the finals come in,
particularly for LIVE programming (i.e. Football). Source Nielsen
Media Research. Time Period Averages Only. [p] = Premiere; [o] =
Original; [r] = Repeat ABC 7.9/13 My
Wife and Kids (60m) 6.1/10, Kingdom Hospital
[Premiere]
8.8/14 FOX 7.9/12That
70s Show 6.5/11, American Idol 11.5/18, The O.C. 6.7/10 CBS
7.9/12 60
Minutes II 8.0/13, The King of Queens 8.0/12, Everybody Loves
Raymond 8.4/13, CSI 7.4/12 NBC 7.4/12 The
Apprentice [r] 4.6/7, The West Wing 7.6/12, Law & Order
10.0/16 WB 3.2/5 Smallville
3.5/6, Angel 2.9/4 UPN 2.3/4 Enterprise
2.6/4, America's Next Top Model [r] 1.9/3 A18-49
ABC 4.8/13, NBC 4.0/10, CBS 3.7/10, WB 2.0/5, UPN
1.5/4
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