CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/18/05 Good morning. It’s Monday, July 18, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. It’s finally happened — a cable network has picked up the syndicated cable rights to another cable network’s original series. Spike TV has picked up The Shield, distributed by Sony Pictures TV, FX’s signature series. Spike […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/15/05 Good morning. It’s Friday, July 15, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. A week without a Nielsen story is like a week without …. a Nielsen story. If the first bill in the Senate last week wasn’t enough, another bill was introduced yesterday, this one by Congressman Pete […]
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/14/05 Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 14, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. The National Hockey League will be back in business and on the ice next season – tho the exact terms of that business and the on-air business won’t be fully announced until next week. It will […]
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/13/05 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, July 13, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. TV broadcasters told a Senate Commerce Committee in Washington DC yesterday that they could work with a 2009 deadline to fully convert to digital broadcasting. Whether or not the broadcasters are ready by 2009, the question […]
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/12/05 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 12, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. Fox has announced Fall start dates for much of its schedule, and the first thing you’ll notice is with just a couple of exceptions, they are not waiting until after the World Series this year. Beginning […]
Monday, July 11th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/11/05 Good morning. It’s Monday, July 11, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. After almost two years of slings and arrows, it appears former Disney executives/members of the Board of Directors Roy Disney and Stanley Gold and The Disney Company have reached a mutually satisfactory resolution. In a joint […]
Friday, July 8th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/08/05 Good morning. It’s Friday, July 8, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. Broadcast and cable news networks broke with the story of terrorist attacks in London early yesterday morning and stayed with that story, as well as the connection to G-8 summit, reactions in Washington DC and New […]
Thursday, July 7th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/07/05 Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 7, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. This statement released by Tribune Broadcasting Company late yesterday regarding the FAIR Ratings Bill presented by Sen. Conrad Burns requiring mandatory accreditation of television rating services: “Tribune Broadcasting supports S. 1372, the FAIR Ratings Bill […]
Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/06/05 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, July 6, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. July 21st is the day Liberty Media Corp will spinoff its 50% stake in Discovery Communications into a new smaller company called Discovery Holding Co., in an effort to simplify its portfolio. The new spinoff will […]
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
CYNTHIA TURNER’S Cynopsis 07/05/05 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 5, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT), has introduced a bill before the U.S. Senate called F.A.I.R., which stands for Fairness and Accuracy in Ratings. The bill proposes mandatory accreditation by the Media Rating Council (a process which is […]
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