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President Obama’s address, where he laid out his plan for health care reform to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night was viewed by 32.1 million people, based on LiveSD stream per Nielsen. The speech was carried live on 11 networks from 8p to approximately 906p. The networks airing the speech include ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, Telemundo, BET, CNBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, Galavision and MSNBC. The combined HH rating for all 11 networks equaled 20.6. Note: BET, Univision and Telemundo aired the speech on a tape delay. John Stossel, a fixture on ABC News as a correspondent and co-anchor of newsmagazine 20/20 is making a switch to Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel. Stossel will host a one-hour weekly show on FBN called Stossel where he will explore libertarian topics in the US and in the world. He will also be a regular contributor to Fox News. Stossel has been a part of ABC’s 20/20 since 1981 and was named co-anchor in 2003. Ellen DeGeneres will become American Idol’s fourth judge when the show returns for its ninth season next January on FOX. DeGeneres also signed a new five-year agreement with Warner Bros. to continue hosting The Ellen DeGeneres Show which debuted its seventh season this week. The talk show is cleared through the 2010-2011 season with three additional years following. DeGeneres also has previous American Idol experience as she co-hosted the 2007 Idol Gives Back special with Ryan Seacrest. Maura Tierney will bow out of the upcoming NBC drama series Parenthood, citing conflicts with the timing of her breast cancer treatments and the show’s production schedule. NBC has already started recasting her role. The network pushed back the production schedule of the series last July upon learning of Tierney’s condition, reserving Parenthood for a midseason launch. An NBC spokesperson said, “While we are saddened that Maura Tierney won’t be able to continue in her current role in ‘Parenthood,’ our main concern is for her quick and full recovery. Our thoughts and best wishes are with her.” NFL fans who live in a blacked out home team market can view the game on NFL.com in full on a delayed basis, according to an announcement by the NFL yesterday. All games will be available on an on-demand subscription basis during the 2009 regular season and postseason through the league’s new NFL Game Rewind service. If, however, games are blacked out locally for not selling out by 72 hours in advance, the game will be offered via NFL.com at no charge in those affected home markets. Adult Swim premieres the new stop-motion animated comedy Titan Maximum September 27 at 1130p. Titan Maximum is created by Robot Chicken producers/writers/directors Seth Green, Tom Root and Matthew Senreich along with ShadowMachine Films’ Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico. Root, Senreich and Green will executive produce the series. Voice talent includes Green, Breckin Meyer, Rachael Leigh Cook, Dan Milano and Eden Espinosa. Lifetime opens a second season of DietTribe, the reality series where a group of friends train and lose weight together on October 2 at 9p. Pro trainer and health guru Jessie Pavelka and psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser will again mentor and coach the friends, this time a group of new moms over 120 days as they work hard to become fit and healthy. Pie Town Productions produces DietTribe for Lifetime. SyFy debuted a third season of Destination Truth Wednesday night at 10p reaching 1.2 million A18-49, 1.3 million A25-54 and 2.1 million total viewers. Classic film The Wizard of Oz is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and Warner Home Video and Turner Classic Movies will host a new hi-def restoration of the film at approximately 450 movies theaters nationwide on September 23, per Multichannel News. The one-time only event precedes the release of freshly remastered Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film. Program Call: If your company is attending MIPCOM or MIP JR in early October with programming to sell, Cynopsis Media is producing our annual MIPCOM Shopping Guide available to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers on Thursday, October 1. To have your programming included, please send only the following info for your top 5 shows: title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e., movie, series, special, etc.), genre and your terms (barter, cash, etc.). To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send details to by Friday, September 25, 2009.
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Cablevision Systems Corporation will launch MSG Varsity, a multi-platform array of services including a 24/7 television network reaching four local regions in the Tri-State area, an online site and interactive capabilities, showcasing high school sports and activities. Starting September 24, MSG Varsity will be available to Cablevision’s iO TV and Optimum Online high-speed online customers. MSG Varsity will reach 3 million households in the New York market. Hispanic TV network, V-me will air Libro De Familia, a Spanish series about three families living in a Galician town during the 1970s. The series will air on Monday nights in primetime in the network’s miniseries block at 9p-11p beginning early 2010. Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. (LBI Media) made an affiliation deal with Tribune’s WPIX/New York to broadcast LBI Media’s new Hispanic network, Estrella TV beginning October 1 on channel 11.2. This agreement now cinches the second-largest Hispanic TV market in the US for Estrella TV, reaching 10% of the country’s total Hispanic households.
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Discovery Communications is developing a new one-hour series called Curiosity to explore the biggest questions and mysteries involving space, biology, geology, medicine, physics, technology, nature, archaeology, history and the human mind. Five years in the making with a multi-million dollar budget, Curiosity will delve into twelve major questions over 12 episodes each year, led by John Hendricks, Chairman/Founder, Discovery Communications. The series will air on Discovery Channel Sunday nights at 8p starting January 2011. Spawning from the television series, the Curiosity project will feature educational classroom materials for students K-12 and teacher guides via Discovery Education. Curiosity is a co-production of Discovery Communications and Experius Academy. ABC ordered six new episodes of Secret Millionaire, noted THR. The show follows wealthy philanthropists as they live under cover in impoverished communities and after their real identities are revealed, they donate large amounts to help the needy. The series, produced by RDF USA aired for a short time on FOX last December but was not picked up for a second season. Casting Call: CMT is hosting open casting calls nationwide for a second season of its singing competition show The Singing Bee. Production on the new 20-episode season begins this November with a premiere scheduled for January 2010. Audition cities include: Phoenix September 12-13; San Francisco September 19; Dallas September 26-27; Austin October 3-4; Chicago October 10-11; Princeton, NJ October 16; Nashville October 24-25; and Studio City, CA. Applicants can email for more information on these specific audition locations. The Singing Bee is produced by The Gurin Company and JUMA Entertainment.
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CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Long accused of helping to kill the newspaper business, Google may be trying to make amends by releasing a micropayment e-commerce platform that publications can use to charge for their content. The plan was revealed in a document submitted to Newspaper Association of America, first noticed by Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. An extension of the Google Checkout platform, the micropayment system would help manage subscriptions across multiple news sites and payments from third party syndication. Of course Google would get a cut of the action, sharing revenue from each transaction, perhaps along the lines of the 30% taken by Apple at the App Store or Google itself at the Android mobile app market. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Veteran TV execs Kevin Gillis, Michael McLaughlin and Michael Iscove have launched their new production and distribution family entertainment company, Skywriter Media and Entertainment Group. The company will focus its efforts on developing/producing/distributing content across TV, online, gaming, mobile and social media. Gillis, formerly a partner in Breakthrough Animation, will serve as CEO. McLaughlin, who was EVP/Entertainment (Canada), Omnicom, takes on the position of President, with Iscove acting as COO/CFO. Paula McLaren joins the new company from BBC Worldwide (NY) to head up worldwide distribution, overseeing global sales, marketing and acquisitions. Full edition: CYN KIDS.
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Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 8/24-8/28/09 ranked by HH Rtg Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 8/24-8/28/09 ranked by A18-49 Rtg Tuesday A18-49 Analysis: FOX topped Tuesday with a 2.8/8 among A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX robustly began the night a winner at 8p with Hell’s Kitchen at 3.7/11 with CBS’ NCIS repeat next at 2.1/6. The CW’s sophomore season of 90210 premiered at 8p in fifth place with a 1.2/4. During 9p, NBC’s America’s Got Talent squeaked into #1 with a 2.8/8 followed closely by CBS’ Big Brother at 2.7/7 while The CW’s new version of Melrose Place debuted in sixth place overall at 1.3/3. Additionally, The CW’s Melrose Place delivered a 2.5/7 among W18-34 and the opening episode averaged 2.3 million viewers. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. NBC: 6.2/10 America’s Got Talent [r] 4.2/7, America’s Got Talent 7.2/12 CBS: 5.5/9 NCIS [r] 7.2/12, Big Brother 11 4.8/7, The Mentalist [r] 4.5/8 FOX: 3.5/6 Hell’s Kitchen 4.5/7, More to Love 2.4/4 ABC: 2.9/5 Shark Tank [r] 2.1/3, Shaq VS. 2.5/4, Primetime: Family Secrets 4.1/7 UNIV: 2.1/4 En Nombre Del Amor 2.0/3, Manana Es Para Siempre 2.6/4, Aqui y Ahora 1.8/3 CW: 1.7/3 90210 [p] 1.8/3, Melrose Place [p] 1.7/3 MNT: 0.9/1 Street Patrol [r] 0.9/2, Street Patrol 2 [r] 0.8/1, Jail [r] 0.9/1, Jail 2 [r] 0.9/1 ION: 0.7/1 Ghost Whisperer [r] 0.4/1, Criminal Minds 0.9/1, Criminal Minds 0.8/1 TELE: 0.6/1 Mas Sabe El Diablo 0.6/1, Ninos Ricos 0.5/1, Victorinos 0.6/1 A18-49: FOX 2.8/8, NBC 2.4/7, CBS 2.1/6, UNIV 1.7/5, ABC 1.6/4, CW 1.2/4, TELE 0.6/2, MNT 0.5/1, ION 0.3/1
NBC: 5.2/9 Presidential Address, America’s Got Talent 6.2/10, Law & Order: SVU [r] 3.8/7 CBS: 4.3/7 Presidential Address, Criminal Minds [r] 4.4/7, CSI: NY [r] 4.4/8 FOX: 4.3/7 So You Think You Can Dance [p] 3.9/6, Glee [p] 4.6/7 ABC: 2.8/5 Presidential Address, Wipeout 2.9/5, Primetime: Crime 2.8/5 CW: 2.2/4 America’s Next Top Model [p] 2.2/4 UNIV: 1.9/3 En Nombre Del Amor 2.0/3, Manana Es Para Siempre 2.3/4, Don Francisco Presenta 1.5/3 TELE: 1.8/3 Junto Al Tri 0.7/1, Rumbo Al Mundial: Mexico vs. Honduras 2.1/3 MNT: 0.7/1 World’s Funniest Moments [r] 0.7/1, Magic’s Biggest Secrets Revealed [r] 0.7/1 ION: 0.5/1 Ghost Whisperer [r] 0.5/1, Boston Legal [r] 0.4/1, Criminal Minds 0.5/1 A18-49: FOX 3.1/9, TELE 2.1/6, NBC 1.8/5, ABC 1.6/4, CW 1.5/4, UNIV 1.5/4, CBS 1.3/4, MNT 0.4/1, ION 0.2/0 ~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Louis Jones is the new CEO, North America at Maxus, one of four worldwide WPP media agency networks within GroupM. Effective immediately, Louis will supervise all Maxus efforts in the US and Canada. Based in New York, Louis will report to Kelly Clark, CEO, Maxus Worldwide. Additionally, current CEO Carla Loffredo becomes the first COO, North America for Maxus. Cineflix named Stephen Tapp to the position of CEO/Cineflix Rights where he will be in charge of developing and overseeing growth strategy for using the company’s intellectual property worldwide. Stephen will be located at Cineflix’s Toronto office. Previously, Stephen served as CEO at Hercules Media Group. Denise Bailey was named as Licensing Manager of PPC, the commercial unit of Picture Production Company Group. Christina Miller advanced to SVP/Strategy, Marketing, Promotions with Turner Sports and Cartoon Network Enterprises. Under her new title, Christina will continue managing Cartoon Network’s Consumer Products and Home Video units in the US encompassing global licensing partnerships, merchandising goals and retail business development for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim brands. For Turner Sports, Christina will now supervise overall strategy, marketing and programming as well as relationships with league partners, Turner networks and digital products. Christina will move to Atlanta from New York and will continue to report jointly to David Levy, President/Sales, Distribution and Sports, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and Stuart Snyder, President/COO,Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media Group. In addition, Christina will report to Lenny Daniels, EVP/COO, Turner Sports. WorldLink re-hired Daniel Casey as EVP/Sales and GM, following a three-year interval where he served as EVP/Sales and Marketing with Revenue Frontier and President/GM of KDOC/Los Angeles. At WorldLink, Daniel will oversee the company’s daily operations and report to Toni Knight, Founder/CEO. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM IAB MIXX 2009 Be Part of the MIXX Experience!
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