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WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU WINS ITS TIME PERIOD
#1 with Women 18-34 & 12-34! Tune-in Tonight WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU Source: NTI, Galaxy Explorer, 1/14/2005, US Rtg. TP=8-8:30p. CYNTHIA TURNER’S
Good morning. It’s Friday, January 21, 2005, and this is your first early morning briefing. Watch out Lost, there’s a new player back in town. American Idol stole the usual Wednesday night 8pm win from ABC’s Lost, Fox’s 11.2/27 vs. ABC’s 7.4/18 A18-49 according to final numbers from Nielsen Media Research. Fox’s premiere of Point Pleasant immediately following, and buoyed by the huge lead-in delivered a solid sampling at 5.3/12. Despite its success, however, ABC’s Alias won the hour with a 5.6/13. WB’s Big Man on Campus had its season and perhaps even series finale at 9pm, drawing a very modest .8/2 A18-49, tho fared a little better among T12-17 with a 1.3/4. NBC’s Law & Order led the 10p hour with a 4.7/12, a share point ahead of ABC’s Wife Swap. A repeat of CSI NY drew a 3.8/10. Casting / Development / Production
Cablevision Systems has sold VOOM to Echostar for $200 million. The sale is conditional based on FCC approval. During the transition period, Cablevision will continue to operate VOOM to its current subscriber base of 26,000. Some reports suggest this is a ‘defeat’ for Cabelvision’s chairman Charles Dolan who attempted to bring the satellite service along for the past 10 years. The satellite service has eaten up close to $500 million in its short life ($260 million just to build and launch the satellite), and the unit went thru $75 million in third qtr alone last year. It’s been creeping up for quite a while now, and on Monday, it finally surpassed. Good Morning America beat the Today Show on Monday, January 10 by 405,000 viewers, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research. For the full week of January 10-14, Today won with a total of 5.94 million viewers, ahead of GMA by just 253,000 viewers (GMA = 5.687 million). Among A25-54, Today Show was ahead by just 252,000 viewers: 3.002 million for Today vs. 2.75 million for GMA. Quick cable premiere ratings roundup:
The Ultimate Fighter on Monday night at 11:07-12m and averaged a 1.4 HH rtg with a 1.5 rating in both key male demos, M18-49 and M18-34. Both demos marked increases vs. previous year of 36% and 12% respectively. Overall, the show brought in1.7 million viewers. Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of January 3-9, 2005 ranked by HH Rtg Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of January 3-9, 2005 ranked by A18-49 Prepping for NATPE:
Top 5 Broadcast Spanish Language Primetime Programs for the week of January 10-16, 2005** Top 10 Broadcast English Language Primetime Programs in Hispanic TV Homes for the week of January 10-16, 2005 African American television homes in the US represent 13,170,000 households. Here are the rankings for the week of January 10-16, 2005 – highest rated primetime network programs in African American TV homes according to Nielsen Media Research Lamont Bentley, an actor perhaps best known for his work on the UPN series Moehsa, passed away on Tuesday night after a car accident in LA. He was returning from a screening for the indie short Shards. The 31-year old actor played Moesha Mitchell’s best friend and neighbor, Hakeem Campbell, in addition to roles in such productions as South Central, The Sentinel, Courthouse, Family Matters, The Client, What About Your Friends, Equal Justice and Reasonable Doubts. Atlas Media Corp. has named Suzanne Levy as Director/Programming. She will be responsible for overseeing a growing portfolio of Atlas’ specials and series, as well as a variety of programming logistics, reporting to Cheryl Houser, SVP/Programming. Rick Holzman has been named VP/Program Planning and Scheduling for Discovery Channel and Peter Lovering has been named VP/Production and Development, Discovery Channel for Discovery Networks, U.S. in London. In his new role, Rick will oversee scheduling and acquisitions for the network and plan long-term programming strategies. Peter will be based in Discovery’s UK office and is charged witih seeking out potential production projects for the network and directing development efforts of UK-based independent producers. Additionally, he manages the Discovery/BBC joint venture and develops new production talent in the U.K. Comedy Central has hired David Bernath as SVP/Programming, reporting to Michele Ganeless, EVP/GM. David makes the move from VP/Programming for BBC American, and will join Comedy Central on January 31. He will be based at the network’s New York headquarters. Wednesday, January 19, 2005. FINAL Ratings for all Networks – program averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research. FOX 11.0/16 American Idol 15.2/22, Point Pleasant [p] 6.8/10 ABC 9.1/14 Lost 11.9/18, Alias 8.2/12, Wife Swap 6.8/11 NBC 6.8/10 SI: Swimsuit Model Search 2.9/4, West Wing 7.2/11, Law & Order 10.2/17 CBS 6.6/10 60 Minutes 5.6/8, King of Queens 7.8/11, Center of the Universe 6.2/9, CSI: NY 7.1/12 WB 1.7/3 Smallville 2.0/3, Big Man on Campus [f] 1.4/2 UPN 1.5/2 Road to Stardom 1.5/2, Kevin Hill 1.4/2 A18-49 Fox 8.2/20, ABC 5.8/14, CBS and NBC 3.1/7, WB 1.0/2, UPN .9/2 A MESSAGE FROM NEW LINE TELEVISION THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Return To The Zone SEASON 2 Available for Renewal See you at NATPE! NEW LINE TELEVISION Friday Fun Fact: There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. The History Channel presents This Day in History: Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: He has asked all sorts of interesting questions, not the least of which: Do bees be? Do bears bear? Do eggs get laid? Do ducks duck? Who is responsible for these idiotic – or are they cerebrally enigmatic – questions? DAVID ADDISON on MOONLIGHTING. Kudos to: Gloria Price-CBS News/NY; Evan Kutner-WNBC/NY; Ted Leuci-IFC Companies/Jericho; Liz Ward-Ward Communications/NY; Bill Goodfriend-Charter Adv/St. Louis; Cary Minor-Showcase Cable Sales/Houston; Tom Giesen-High Noon Prods/Centennial CO; Russ Talley-Turner Bcsting/LA; Cheryl Brooks/LA; Karen Oberhofer-IMP/Seattle; Maddie Miyoshi-Ron Ziskin Prods/LA; Bob Brunner/LA. A MESSAGE FROM COURT TV “You can stretch your arms out and touch both walls.”
“I prayed through the night.” “I had to practice…to be human again.” The Exonerated Starring Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Premieres Jan. 27 at 9 p.m. Only on Court TV: The Investigation Channel. Viewers convey positive attitudes towards pro-social content. Today’s Trivia Question: What was the Flash-Matic? (click here with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone with your answer. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.)
A MESSAGE FROM AMC
AMC in 2004:
“4 STARS!” 2004 was AMC’s best year ever in delivery: – Primetime HH delivery up 10% year to year Source: Nielsen Media Research, AMC, 8p-11p, HHLD, A18-49,A25-54 Proj,12/29/03 – 12/26/04 vs 12/30/02 -12/28/03. Later — Cyn To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change a subscription for any Cynopsis edition: www.cynopsis.com Archived Editions: www.Cynopsis.com Cyn opsis CLASSIFIEDS – read by 98,875+ Cynopsis & Cynopsis Kids! readers every day. JOB OPENING: SALES PLANNER-AETN, NY. Create plans, steward accts, designate ADUs&recaps, coord makegoods & post analysis prep. 2yrs exp planning or buyer. Exc comm skills. Client service mindset. Res&Sal Req’d: JOB OPENING: RESEARCH ANALYST, Tribune Ent./NY: Support distribution/programming/ad sales. Presentations, competitive analyses. Strong MS Office & writing skills . Familiarity w/Nielsen software a plus !. Email: JOB OPENING: DIRECTOR, ON-AIR PROMOTION/Food Network, NY. Dev/execution: on-air/off-air video pgm promo, network ID, branding, mktg. 8+ yrs OA promo exp at network/nat’l cable TV. Apply: JOB OPENING: MTV Networks: DIRECTOR, AFF. AD SALES. Support dist/mktg goals wrkg w/aff. mktg reps from all MTV nets. Maximize affil revenue from local inv. on MTVN, influence distrib. when possible Apply: www.mtvncareers.com EOE (1/27) JOB OPENING: Starz Entert. Group, EXEC DIR, PGM & PROMOTION PLANNING & SCHEDULING/Englewood, CO for 7 Encore PayTV movie channels. 8+ yrs exp in Sr-level pgming role & 10 yrs cable/sat exp. Job # 404-10195CY. Apply www.starz.com JOB OPENING: VP, DEVELOPMENT, Discovery Channel, Silver Spring, MD. Oversee pilots, initiate fresh programming ideas, discover new talent. 10 yrs of managerial producer exp. Apply: www.discovery.com . Job req#1941 (1/26) JOB OPENING: SR. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER – EVENTS, Discovery Channel, Silver Spring, MD. Will create & manage ground-breaking TV specials & events. 3-5 yrs sr. editorial exp. Apply: www.discovery.com . Job req#1956 (1/26) JOB OPENING: SR. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER – SERIES, Discovery Channel, Silver Spring, MD. 3-5 yrs exp. at sr. editorial level creating & managing factual and entertainment series. Apply: www.discovery.com . Job req#1957 (1/26) JOB OPENING: GUEST BOOKER NY; Looking for a great new competitive gig? High profile legal talk show wants to hear from hard-core, enterprising, org. people w. superb phone and research skills. Apply to SITUATION WANTED ADS, POSTED BY THOSE LOOKING TO BE HIRED — SITUATION WANTED: Organized, efficient, multi-tasker seeks position in PROG, MKTG OR SALES in TV in NYC. Please email: SITUATION WANTED: TV SALES/MARKETING/PR DIRECTOR experienced in GAY & LESBIAN, Specialty and Adult NETWORK BROADCASTING seeks executive opportunity in any genre. Launched world’s first GLBT tv network: SITUATION WANTED: LA- BUS/LEGAL AFFAIRS ATTORNEY. Atty with 6+years corporate experience at top-100 nat’l law firm + 1 year prod company experience. Seeking studio/prod co oppt’y. Licensed in Calif. Contact: SITUATION WANTED: EVENT COORDINATOR-planned and facilitated Nat’l and Internat’l tours, concerts, promo events and more for platinum selling artists. Young with great industry experience/contacts. Relocation ok. dwidoff SITUATION WANTED: UF Grad seeking ENTRY-LEVEL MEDIA PLANNING. Media internship & designed/pitched a full IMC campaign. Available for interviews at your convenience. (352)216-8003 Hart71481@yahoo. SITUATION WANTED: L.A./ FIELD PRODUCER position wanted. 5+years experience in the field working with Discovery, NBC and A&E. Excellent references. Email: E-mail Are you looking for a job? Post your Situation Wanted Ad here — Email WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: JANUARY 21, 2005:
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