FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2009


  • President-Elect Barack Obama wants to push back the analog cut off date
  • HBO launches Eastbound & Down next month
  • Twentieth TV announces The Morning Show won't be back; and has picked up clearances for My Name is Earl
  • National Geographic goes inside a George prison for Hard Time
  • Producer Thom Beers to  exec prod film Working on the Edge
  • Discovery Channel announces several projects in development


Fall/Winter Broadcast Schedule 2008-09 (Updated 12/3/08): Click here for the PDF; or Click here for the Excel spreadsheet



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CYNOPSIS DIGITAL - TODAY'S TOP STORYIs America really ready for the switch to digital television? Barack Obama doesn't think so. The President-elect's team called for a delay in the cutoff of analog TV signals yesterday after The Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, sent a letter to Capitol Hill late Tuesday requesting that the Feb. 17 transition be postponed to better prepare elderly and poorer consumers who still rely on rabbit ears for their television signals. The requests come days after federal officials announced that the program to distribute $40 coupons to defray the cost of digital converter boxes has run out of money. (The boxes retail for between $50-$80 each, without a coupon.)   Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.

CYNOPSIS KIDS - TODAY'S TOP STORY: As Entertainment Rights (ER) continues to search for investors or acquisition partner(s) to work its way out of debt, while drastically reducing its annual costs including workforce, the company is set to sue its US DVD distributor, Genius Products, concerning allegedly unpaid fees, per Variety.  The fees are described as an 'unspecified amount'.  No word yet on ER's discussions with its most recent (unnamed) suitor.  Full edition:
CYN KIDS.




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NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH: MAJOR SWEEP DATES 2009


MARCH 2009    March 5 - April 1, 2009
MAY 2009    April 23 - May 20, 2009
JULY 2009    July 2, - July 29, 2009
NOVEMBER 2009    October 29 - November 25, 2009




CW NETWORK and MY NETWORK TV Affiliate List

This excel spreadsheet download is a full list of the local station affiliates of the CW Network and My Network TV .


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Calendar of Events:
2009 Int'l Consumer Electronics Show
January 8, 2009 (8:00 am)
(Conferences and Conventions) CEA is the Consumer Electronics Association, the producer of the International CES. All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market res...

NATPE 2009
January 26, 2009 (8:00 am)
(Conferences and Conventions) Celebrating over 40 years of service to the ever-evolving global television industry, NATPE continues to redefine itself and the services it provides to meet the needs of its members. Today’s industry encompasses so much more today than ever before and ...

AAAA 2009 Media Conference & Tradeshow
March 4, 2009 (8:00 am)
(Conferences and Conventions) 2009 4A’s Media Conference & Tradeshow Wednesday, March 4–Friday, March 6, 2009 The Hilton New Orleans Riverside Over two-and-a-half days of thought-provoking presentations, panel discussion and breakout sessions, leading media gurus and experts fr...

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