Good morning. It’s Friday, July 9, 2004, and this is your first early morning briefing.
No surprise here – Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) has asked UPN for a private screening of Amish in the City before it hits the air later on this month. When UPN originally announced this series back in January at TCA, Pitts said he didn’t want to see any of the 18,000 Amish population from his state to be ‘put in a cage and laughed at.’ No word yet from UPN as to whether or not they’ll supply Pitts with the screener.
Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain has signed a long-term agreement for the regional cable rights to the Colorado Rockies that includes airing the games as well as part ownership in the team itself. Fox will put in approx $20 million to pick up a 12% piece of the Rockies action. The deal to carry the baseball games will cost the net approx $200 million over the course of the ten year deal, not including the $20 million ownership payment. A new area cable network Altitude Sports & Entertainment owned by Stan Kroenke who also owns the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche, is moving the games of his two teams off Fox Sports Rocky Mounting, to put on his own network, and was looking at trying to steal away the Colorado Rockies games once their deal with Fox ended after the 2007 season. The move creating a new sense of urgency for Fox to re-up with the MLB Colorado Rockies.
John McEnroe‘s premiere on CNBC Wednesday night picked up 266,000 total viewers at 10pm, which is an improvement of the season-to-day average of 45%. A good first volley.
Fox out foxed the other bcst networks on Wednesday night among A18-49 averaging a 3.2/10 for the evening according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox began with That 70’s Show (2.8/10), dropped just one share point at 830 for Quints, up at 9pm for Simple Life (4.6/14 – also the highest rated half hour of the night in this demo), and finishing with Method & Red’s 2.6/8. Next Action Star on NBC at 8pm found a slim audience with a 1.8/6, while two eps of Law & Order forged a 3.0/9 for the pair. ABC’s sitcom block from 8-10p delivered a 2.5/8, while CBS 9-10 sitcom hour found a 2.3/7. At 10p, 48 Hours on CBS earned a 2.7/8, behind the 10p ep of Law & Order (3.4/10) and well ahead of ABC’s Ultimate Love Test 1.9/6.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of June 21 – 27, 2004 ranked by HH Rtg Wheel of Fortune (King World) 8.0.4 AA Jeopardy (King World) 7.5 AA Oprah (King World) 6.5 AA / 6.6 GAA Seinfeld (Sony) 5.4 AA / 6.5 GAA Friends (Warner Bros.) 5.2 AA / 6.4 GAA Entertainment Tonight (Paramount) 4.9 AA / 5.0 GAA Everybody Loves Raymond (King World) 4.8 AA / 5.5 GAA Judge Judy (Paramount) 4.5 AA / 6.6 GAA Dr. Phil (King World) 4.0 AA / 4.1 GAA Millionaire (Buena Vista) 3.6 AA / 3.8 GAA Source Nielsen Media Research
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of June 24 – 27, 2004 ranked by A18-49 Seinfeld (Sony) 3.6 AA / 4.4 GAA Friends (Warner Bros.) 3.6 AA / 4.3 GAA Everybody Loves Raymond (King World) 2.7 AA / 3.1 GAA Oprah (King World) 2.6 AA / 2.6 GAA Wheel of Fortune (King World) 2.3 AA Jeopardy (King World) 2.1 AA Entertainment Tonight (Paramount) 2.1 AA / 2.2 GAA That 70’s Show (Carsey-Werner) 2.1 AA / 2.6 GAA Will & Grace (Warner Bros.) 1.9 AA / 2.2 GAA Judge Judy (Paramount) 1.8 AA / 2.5 GAA Source Nielsen Media Research
If you missed it the first time around, CBS will re-air The Amazing Race premiere episode on Saturday, at 8pm.
Nothing official – thus far it’s just rumor that David Elstein (Five’s former CEO) is interested in purchasing the Hallmark Channel with an estimated 750 million euro bid. If the deal follows through, Elstein will have command over the UK Hallmark Channel, its operations in over 120 nations and the channel’s vast film library. Bids have reportedly been placed by Sony with additional attention from Disney, Liberty Media, MGM, News Corporation, Time Warner and Turner. The Hallmark Entertainment-owned and Crown Media-run Hallmark Channel will end the initial bidding period by the end of July with an anticipated fall closing.
Top 5 Broadcast Spanish Language Primetime Programs for the week of June 28 – July 4, 2004 UNIV Mariana de la Noche (Mon 8p) 21.8 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Mariana de la Noche (Tue 8p) 20.2 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Mariana de la Noche (Wed 8p) 19.6 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Mariana de la Noche (Thu 8p) 19.5 NHTI HH Rtg UNIV Mariana de la Noche (Fri 8p) 19.3 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 June 28 – July 4, 2004 – highest rated primetime network programs in African American TV homes according to Nielsen Media Research ABC My Wife & Kids (Wed 830p) 12.5 HH Rtg UPN Half & Half (Mon 930p) 12.2 HH Rtg UPN Girlfriends (Mon 9p) 11.9 HH Rtg ABC My Wife & Kids (Wed 8p) 11.8 HH Rtg UPN Eve (Mon 830p) 11.5 HH Rtg CBS CSI: Miami (Mon 10p) 10.1 HH Rtg CBS CSI (Thu 9p) 9.6 HH Rtg UPN The Parkers (Mon 8p) 9.3 HH Rtg CBS Without a Trace (Thu 10p) 8.6 HH Rtg NBC L&O (Wed 10p) 8.5 HH Rtg Source Nielsen Media Research
Lynn Brindell has been named SVP/Marketing at the Food Network, overseeing all aspects of marketing and branding for the cable network. Lynn will be based in New York and will report directly to Brooke Johnson, President of the network. In addition, Food Network’s Susie Fogelson has been upped to VP/Consumer Marketing from Director.
MediaCom U.S., announced the upping of Michele Krumper to SVP/Management Supervisor from Vice President, Management Supervisor. Michele will be responsible for managing all planning and buying activities for Subway. A retail media expert, she was appointed Retail Planning Director in 2000.
John and Tim Rigas are guilty of conspiracy, securities fraud and bank fraud; Martha won’t get a new trial – sentencing scheduled for July 16.
Wednesday, July 7, 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
CBS 5.6/10 60 Minutes 5.9/11, King of Queens 5.8/10, Still Standing 3.5/6, 48 Hours 6.2/11
NBC 5.3/10 Next Action Star 2.8/5, L&O 5.8/10, L&O 7.4/13
ABC 3.6/6 My Wife & Kids 4.9/9, My Wife & Kids 5.0/9, Drew Carey 3.1/5, Drew Carey 3.2/5, Ultimate Love Test 2.7/5
FOX 4.2/8 That 70’s Show 3.8/7, Quintuplets 3.7/7, Simple Life 5.8/10, Method & Red 5.8/6
UPN 1.1/2 Star Trek Enterprise 1.2/2, Star Trek Enterprise 1.0/2
A18-49 Fox 3.2/10, NBC 2.6/8, ABC 2.3/7, CBS 2.3/7, WB 1.0/3, UPN 0.6./2
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Source: NTI Explorer, Week ranks= 9/22/03-6/27/04, excludes specials. Rank based on HH Rating.
Friday Fun Fact: Pine, spruce, or other evergreen wood should never be used for BBQ-ing. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food. Only hardwoods should be used for smoking and grilling.
The History Channel presents This Day in History: 1877 – The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then a suburb of London. Twenty-one amateur men showed up to compete. In addition to establishing the sport’s most famous tournament, the All England Club also formalized many of the modern rules of tennis. It was forced to bend slightly with the times in 1968, when it agreed to welcome professional players. Wimbledon remains the only major tennis tournament played on grass.
Answer to yesterday’s MOVIE Trivia Question sponsored by IFC: Who played Cher Horowitz in 1995’s Clueless? ALICIA SILVERSTONE. But you knew that. All of you knew that. Every last single one of you knew that. So many of you knew, it nearly crashed the system here. We’re talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. Holy cow.
Today’s MOVIETrivia Question sponsored by IFC: Who played Ed Gentry in the 1972 film Deliverance? (click hereto respond to the trivia question and please be sure to include with your answer your name, company, city and time zone. Only the second four correct responses from each time zone will be listed in tomorrow’s kudo list.)
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