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Good morning. It’s Thursday, May 22, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. And as always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here. Tonight’s Premieres: Tonight’s Finales: Note : Click here to download your Fall 2008 Broadcast Schedule in Excel format or available in PDF. ~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
Time Warner will go ahead and sell its remaining 85% ownership stake in Time Warner Cable, a transaction equaling approximately $9 billion that is expected to be complete fourth quarter 2008. Time Warner’s board of directors voted Tuesday to spinoff the second largest cable operator in the U.S. that currently boasts 14.7 million subscribers. In a statement, Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said: “After the transaction, each company will have greater strategic, financial and operational flexibility and will be better positioned to compete.” Now, what about AOL? The cable sales upfront is moving as Hallmark Channel closed a $10-$15 million agreement with Starcom USA that includes the Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movie Channel and Hallmark Channel HD. This follows Nickelodeon’s deal from last week with GroupM, a deal that was reported to be in the $300 million neighborhood. Multiplatform channel The MEN7 Network from Bennett Group which zooms in on affluent males will air its signature program The MEN7 Show every other Thursday at 12m on ION Media Networks starting July 3, according to THR. The thirteen episodes will be hosted by Tava Smiley and Hoyt Christopher and will feature categories men like such as tech gadgets, entertainment and women. Nine additional shows will launch July 3 on the network’s MEN7.tv broadband site and MEN7 content will be syndicated through web distributors such as Veoh, YouTube, Joost and Hulu. Comedy Central renewed the weekly series Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil for a second season starting July 30 at 1030p. Logo ordered a second season of Exes and Ohs, the scripted comedy about lesbian friends and relationships. The series with eight 30m episodes will debut early next year. In the new non-scripted series Ruby premiering this fall, The Style Network will introduce viewers to Ruby Gettinger, a 500-pound young woman with Type 2 Diabetes. Produced by Gay Rosenthal Productions, the series will follow Ruby as she works with a team of experts from trainers to nutritionists who will help her lose hundreds of pounds so she can live a healthy life. The Ski Channel made a pact with Women’s Ski Jumping USA which gives the network broadcast rights to the VISA Women’s International Ski Jumping Festival in Park City, Utah. The Ski Channel would own several event sanctions of U.S. stops with the intention of combining with television to develop integrated sponsorship and marketing packages.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM FOX REALITY CHANNEL
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Wizard’s First Rule, the new weekly first-run syndicated series from Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Studios, added Craig Horner to play the woodsman Richard Cypher and Bridget Regan as Kahlan, a mysterious and beautiful woman. MyNetworkTV (MNT) announced it will move forward with 13 new one-hour episodes of Magic’s Biggest Secrets Revealed from Nash Entertainment and will add the You Tube-style clip series Funniest Moments. MNT also will renew the Tuesday night reality series Jail and Street Patrol, both from Langley Productions. Cyrte Investments acquired the Los Angeles-based production entity Spitfire Pictures which will merge with U.K. studio Hammer to form the new worldwide entertainment group called HS Media. Nigel Sinclair and Simon Oakes will operate HS Media as Co-Chairmen/Co-CEOs based in Los Angeles and London respectively, along with Guy East as President/Chairman of the Executive Board and of the Sales and Distribution Operation. HS Media’s goal is to produce 6-8 films per year in addition to acquiring films for global distribution. The new entity will also develop projects for television. Sharon Osbourne is hosting the second season of VH1‘s Rock of Love Girls: Charm School where it will be Osbourne’s job to give the girls lessons in etiquette, proper manners and fashion. Last year’s host was actress Mo’Nique. ~ ELSEWHERE IN CYNOPSIS ~
CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: Buying Yahoo’s search business is one way to improve Microsoft’s market share. Paying users to search is another. Yes, Microsoft unveiled a new Live Search Cashback site yesterday, which promises to share a portion of the purchase price of the item searched for with the user, with the percentage ranging from 2% to 30% depending on the item. Similar to Google’s Product Search, it is set up primarily as a shopping engine. But the Microsoft site actually bakes in discounts to pass along to the consumer, then deposits that amount into their account. Full edition: CYN DIGITAL. (Or to listen to the Cynopsis Digital Podcast click here or subscribe to it at iTunes here .) CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The UK’s CBeebies will televise LazyTown Extra (26 episodes), a new magazine style show aimed at the K3-6 set, exclusively on the CBeebies digital channel. Co-produced by Lazytown Entertainment and BBC Children’s Scotland, LazyTown Extra will feature locally produced segments featuring LazyTown puppet character Ziggy talk with kids from around the UK about their favorite activities. Each themed episode will be 14-minutes long and will feature all of the regular LazyTown characters, including Sportacus introducing an exercise of the day, Trixie and Stephanie creating SportsCandy recipes, while Robbie Rotten does his worst. Full edition: CYN KIDS. CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The Biography Channel (BIO) will launch in Southeast Asia on May 27 on Singapore’s StarHub (Channel 95) and in the Philippines, with additional distribution deals expected in the coming months. It will first be offered to StarHub subscribers on the Free Preview Channel from May 27 through May 31 with Chinese subtitles. Future plans also involve distributing BIO content on mobile, broadband and VOD. Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL. ~ RATINGS ~
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 5/5-5/11/08 ranked by HH Rtg Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the week of 5/5-5/11/08 ranked by A18-49 Rtg Tuesday – A18-49 Analysis: On the last Tuesday night of Sweeps, FOX came in first with 7.7/20 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. American Idol far surpassed the competition at 8p with 10.1/28 and FOX held sway through 9p with Hell’s Kitchen at 5.2/13. ABC’s finale of Dancing with the Stars during 10p leaped to the top with 5.7/15. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 (May Sweep Day 27) time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD. FOX: 10.9/17 American Idol 15.1/24, Hell’s Kitchen 6.4/10 ABC: 10.6/17 Dancing with the Stars [r] 5.9/9, Dancing with the Stars Results [f] 12.9/20 CBS: 9.2/14 NCIS [f] 10.3/16, Shark [f] 6.9/11 NBC: 3.0/5 Most Outrageous Moments 2.5/4, Most Outrageous Moments [r] 2.4/4, Law & Order: SVU [r] 2.6/4, Law & Order: SVU [r] 4.0/7 UNIV: 2.2/3 Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.4/4, Fuego en la Sangre 2.3/4, Aqui y Ahora 1.9/3 CW: 1.3/2 Reaper [r] 1.0/2, Reaper [f] 1.6/2 MNT: 0.9/1 Jail 0.9/1, Jail 0.8/1, Jail 0.9/1, Jail 2 1.0/1 TELE: 0.7/1 La Traicion 0.5/1, Victoria 0.8/1, Pecados Ajenos 0.6/1 A18-49: FOX 7.7/20, ABC 4.2/11, CBS 3.1/8, UNIV 1.9/5, NBC 1.6/4, CW 0.9/2, MNT 0.6/2, TELE 0.4/1
~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Longtime marketing executive Mary Pat Ryan joins the Executive Management Board of ReelzChannel along with Stanley E. Hubbard, Chairman/CEO; Doug McCormick, Vice Chairman, Executive Management Board; Gary Thorne, President/COO, ReelzChannel; and Bernie Weiss, EVP/Finance and Administration, ReelzChannel. Telemundo upped Andy Barnet to VP/Telemundo National Sales Organization. Based in Los Angeles, Andy will oversee all NSO offices and staff, work closely with key accounts and the Business Development team to develop group agreements. His new role will charge him with increasing sales service to the network’s affiliate group. Andy will report directly to Enrique J. Perez, SVP/Telemundo Stations Sales. Frank Hawkins left his 15-year position with the NFL to start a new consulting firm Scalar Media Partners. Frank’s partners include Art Bell, former President/COO of Court TV and Tom Spock, former NFL EVP. Scalar Media Partners will offer consulting to companies in the media, entertainment and sports industries along with industry investors. Sundance Channel elevated Jeff Kunken to VP/Digital Media and Creative Development where he will continue to supervise the network’s website at www.sundancechannel.com . His duties include content strategy, production and site design. Jeff will still report to Christopher Barry, SVP/Digital Media and Business Strategy. New York Times columnist, Frank Rich will become a Creative Consultant for HBO. Frank will start and help develop projects for the premium network. Rick Espinoza advanced to VP/Western Region Sales with NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution. Rick, who was most recently Director/Western Region Sales at NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution, will continue to manage sales of first-run and off-network programs to local broadcast stations in the Western U.S. markets while based in Los Angeles. MTV Networks Music & Logo Group appointed Nancy Bennett to the new position of SVP/Creative and Content Development for Program Enterprises. Nancy’s duties will include managing the creative direction and branding for the ideas developed by the Program Enterprise team for businesses such as movies, DVD’s, video games and more. Nancy will work with creative teams across MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo. She will report to Jeff Yapp, EVP, MTV Networks Music & Logo Group Program Enterprises. Bravo will expand its production and development team based on a 45% increase in network programming. Promotions and a new hire include:
Horizon Media added Cliff Cree as CIO coming from MTV Networks to supervise the company’s information systems. He will report to Vinnie O’Toole, EVP/CFO. In addition, Horizon Media has a slew of new promotions, those in the New York office include:
Horizon promotions in the Los Angeles office:
Londen Media Group named Jeff Burnton as GM of KAZT/Phoenix (AZ-TV). Since the untimely death of the station’s Co-Founder/GM Ron Bergamo, Jeff has been the acting GM. Litton Entertainment upgraded Thomas S. Warner to Corporate VP/Domestic Syndication. Additionally, the company recruited Kimi Serrano as SVP/Syndication and Digital Platforms and Carol Hayes as Senior AE.
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