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Cynopsis: 10th Anniversary Special Edition: “1999”
6/11/07
- This Morning with Captain Kangaroo
- Good Morning, now put your teeth back in
- Not GMA Today
- Get Up You Lazy &%$#@!
- Good morning … I said GOOD MORNING
- It’s 7AM. Do You Know Where You Are?
The NAACP charges the networks with a “virtual whitewashing of programming” and challenges them to make a new difference
Jamie Kellner tells the Family Friendly Programming Forum, if “you want to develop a bunch of shows, put some money up” and they did
The world finds out who lives in a pineapple under the sea
ESPN turns 20
The broadcast networks discover repurposing on cable networks – Once and Again airs once, and then again – first on broadcast and four days later on Lifetime
Superstation WGN stops carrying the WB Network programming
NBC offers Steven Bochco a new home for NYPD Blue
Of the 35 new shows launched in fall 1999, by the new millennium 16 have been cancelled
SYNDICATION:
Maury Povich’s show moves from Paramount to Studios USA for the 1999-2000 season
TNT scoops up Law & Order out from under A&E
Dave Smith of Sinclair sends a letter to the major syndicators asking them to bid for three weekend time periods on his 34 O&O stations, and suggests the winning bids will be in the area of $1 million
Roseanne shows a live birth on her new syndicated daily show
Senator Jerry Springer?
MGM promises to return to NATPE
ACQUISITIONS & MERGERS:
Barry Diller pulls back from the Lycos deal
Mel Karmazin at CBS says he’d like to buy NBC … but ….
Viacom acquires Spelling Entertainment and Rysher Entertainment … CBS acquires King World … Viacom acquires CBS
Hearst Argyle mergers with Pulitzer
USA Networks buys Polygram Filmed Entertainment
AT&T offers $62 billion in cash and stock for cable MSO MediaOne Group
Young Broadcasting buys KRON
NBC acquires 32% of Paxson
Gemstar buys TV Guide
Clear Channel buys Chancellor Media
Who will buy Chris Craft?
Katz American and Seltel merge to create Millennium Sales & Marketing
Tribune buys out Qwest
etc …
Gary Coleman slugs a fan
The Reverend Jerry Falwell says the purple Tellytubby promotes a gay lifestyle
The FCC holds hearing regarding dual ownership in a single market
News of the Day (original name of Cynopsis) triples it’s subscriber list since last year and now is sent daily to 1,217 subscribers
Ted Turner quote: “The world got along without John F. Kennedy and Jesus Christ … we’ll get along without Lou Dobbs”
Pokemon will become a movie
Newest Jenny Craig spokesperson – the Big Lewinsky
TIVO and Replay are born … TIVO and Replay are born … TIVO and Replay are born … TIVO and Replay are born …
Cybill Shepherd for President?
Warren Beatty for President?
Leslie Moonves gets a 50th birthday 12’x24′ billboard present from Mel Karmazin
Martha Stewart, WWF and Acme Communications all go public
The New York Yankees win the World Series!
EXECUTIVE MOVES:
Dan Dierdorf moves to CBS
Barry Baker resigns from Sinclair and moves to Studios USA as Pres/COO
Adam Ware upped to COO at UPN
Carole Black named Pres/CEO of Lifetime
Garth Ancier named Pres/Entertainment at NBC
Barry Schulman joins A&E as VP/Programming
Mort Marcus leaves Buena Vista Television
Sandy Grushow named Chairman/Fox Television Entertainment Group
The Great John G. Conomikes retires from Hearst-Argyle Television Group; David Barrett steps in
Sam Donaldson vacates the White House beat
Dan Greenblatt made EVP/Sales at Warner Bros.
Arthur Hasson named EVP/Sales at Studios USA
Jack Welch announces he will retire in April 2001
Tommy Cerio named EVP/Sales at Buena Vista Television
IN MEMORIUM:
Iron Eyes Cody … Gene Siskel … Richard Kiley … Peggy Cass … Stanley Kubrick … David Strickland … Anthony Newley … Ellen Corby … Dana Plato … DeForest Kelly … Clayton Moore … Mario Puzo … Joe Zaleski … Allen Funt … Payne Stewart … Madelyn Kahn.
And that’s 1999. Check here on July 16 for the 2000 Cynopsized edition …
Later — Cyn
06.11.07
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Greetings! It’s Monday, June 11, 2007 and this is your second Cynopsis Special Edition, taking a look back at the Year 1999.
1999 was a confrontational year … morning news programs do battle, Dave Smith wants syndicators to bid for Sinclair time periods, Jamie Kellner tells the Family Forum to put up or shut up and they did, TNT bought Law & Order out from under A&E, and Gary Coleman slugged a fan.
Repurposing was truly discovered with shows running first on broadcast and within days airing on cable. Another definition of repurposing was introduced – taking a 60m show and cutting it down to air as a 30m show later on in the week. The latter … didn’t work nearly as well.
It was a year of milestones – Nickelodeon and ESPN both turned 20; HBO adds The Sopranos; ABC debuts Millionaire; 7th Heaven is the first WB program to show up in the Top; Another World ends as does Susan Lucci’s Emmy draught, and that giant sucking sound you heard was Viacom.
So here’s the quick recap … a look back to 1999:
THE NETWORKS:
Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer sign back on for Good Morning America
Debbie Matenopoulos loses her View, Lisa Ling gets it
HBO introduces New Jersey’s favorite family … The Sopranos
Richard Guillaume suffers a stroke on the set of Sports Night and manages to return in time for the season finale
All in the Family is inducted into the NAB’s Hall of Fame
NOGGIN is born
With the birth of the twins, 7th Heaven becomes the first WB series to break into the Top 50 Primetime shows of the week
Barbara Walters wins the first interview Monica Lewinsky and earns a 33.4/48 HH rating
Columbia Tristar asks UPN for a guarantee it won’t go out of business before they’ve had the chance to recoup expenses
NBC’s Another World ends its long daytime run and Passion begins
Melrose Place, Home Improvement and Mad about You all come to an end
David E. Kelley re-purposes Ally McBeal into a 30m series … interesting idea, but not a great response
Susan Lucci wins the Emmy … finally!
Nickelodeon turns 20
Regis Philbin hosts new primetime game show – Who Wants to be a Millionaire? – and Is that Your Final Answer? enters the popular vernacular
TV Land buys the original set of The Honeymooners at auction
This daily asked its subscribers to offer up names for the new weekday CBS early morning news program – some of your suggestions:
