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02/19/08

Good Morning.  It’s Tuesday, February 19, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing.

Perhaps considered a cost-savings move, NBC Local Media Division, NBC’s O&O stations group, cancelled the Chicago-based daytime show In the Loop With iVillage. Show staffers were notified last Friday and told production would continue through March 28. Many of the production crew is expected to be laid off as a result of the cancellation. The show featured female-focused NBC Universal-owned iVillage content produced by Peacock Productions and originating from WMAQ-TV. On the heels of this announcement, it was confirmed that about 13 iVillage employees were laid off including Editor-in-Chief Jennie Baird.

Tonight’s Premieres:
SPEED: Super Bikes! at 10p
Oxygen: Janice & Abbey at 11p
 
Tonight’s Finale:
FX: Nip/Tuck at 10p

Clear Channel filed a complaint on Friday with the Delaware Chancery Court against Newport Television, an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners, to order Newport to complete the $1.2 billion buyout of Clear Channel’s television stations, according to Bloomberg News. Clear Channel indicated Newport was having “buyer’s remorse” back in October and was refusing to honor the agreement. Newport, however, contended it was in talks with Clear Channel about revising the terms of the transaction. Currently, Clear Channel is being purchased by the companies Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital for $19.5 billion, with the television stations being sold in a separate deal.

Casting for the March 17th season debut of Dancing with the Stars on ABC has been released: TV and radio personality Adam Carolla; international film and TV star Cristian de la Fuente; actress/model Shannon Elizabeth; actor Steve Guttenberg; twenty-something R&B/Pop singer and actor Mario; actress Marlee Matlin who has been deaf since infancy; illusionist Penn Jillette; actress and producer Priscilla Presley; tennis champ Monica Seles; NFL’s Man of the Year Jason Taylor; Broadway actress Marissa Jaret Winokur; and ice skating Olympic Gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi.

Starting out as a test, the BBC will sell about ten drama and comedy television shows only in the U.K. through Apple Corp.’s iTunes Store. If this initial trial is successful, BBC may expand the deal further. Currently, the BBC offers many of its show via download for free one week after airing on television. The Apple deal was negotiated with BBC’s commercial unit, BBC Worldwide and more details will be revealed this week including the titles of the TV shows available on iTunes.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. is expected to announce today in its quarterly earnings call with the press that it will acquire the media and licensed properties of Emeril Lagasse for $45 million in cash and $5 million in stock, reports The Wall Street Journal.  Included would be the TV programs The Essence of Emeril and the syndicated episodes of Emeril Live currently airing on the Food Network, numerous cookbooks and Lagasse’s website, as well as a host of licensing product deals. The one piece not included is the Emeril restaurants.

As a promotional effort to expand audience, Meredith Corporation will air a primetime special Better at Night based on the daytime show Better in nine Meredith markets on March 18. The special will feature Better anchor Kimberly Maus live from the Las Vegas strip along with celebrity interviews, new lifestyle segments and stories from past Better episodes. Similar to the Better morning show, the special will allow local stations to insert eight minutes into the national program. Currently the 60m daily Better show airs on nine Meredith stations and three Journal stations. Twelve more stations from groups such as LIN, Northwest and Fisher will air the show later this year. 

Expanding its push with its newest scripted series In Treatment starring Gabriel Byrne, HBO will also begin running the show on HBO2 and HBO Signature.  Starting this week, HBO2 is rerunning the first episodes from 10-12m nightly, and starting on Sunday the 24th, HBO Signature will air the series weekly at 9pm, airing back to back a week’s worth of 30m episodes. HBO continues to air the show weeknights at 930p.

Casting Call: From Grub Street, New York Magazine’s Food and Restaurant Blog  A&E’s new show Rocco to the Rescue (wt), featuring celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, is looking for people in the New York City area who need help with an important upcoming meal. If you are proposing, cooking for a housewarming or for a special birthday, anniversary or reunion, send an email to
with your name, age, phone number, a recent photo and the reason you need Rocco’s help. Interested applicants can also call the casting hotline at 818-752-5559.

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:   The biggest reality show on television has finally joined the iTunes platform. Fox Broadcasting, Fox Interactive Media and FremantleMedia signed an exclusive deal with Apple to bring American Idol audio and video performances to the platform as single song-sized snippets available the day after they premiere on air. Audio performances of the top 24 contenders run 99 cents per song, and videos of the top 12 finalists performances will be priced $1.99/each from March 11. Apple will also become one of the show’s premiere sponsors and maintain a branded presence on americanidol.com, where some free streaming performances can be seen.   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:    Nickelodeon is developing a live-action Dora the Explorer primetime TV movie.  Based, of course, on the Nick Jr. animated series, Dora the Explorer, the live-action TV movie will feature CG special effects.  The network will launch a nationwide search for an actress to play the young Latina in her live-action TV debut. Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY:  Disney’s Southeast Asia-based subsidiary, The Walt Disney Co. Pte. Ltd., will increase its share in India’s UTV Software to 32.1%, subject to regulatory approval. At the same time, Disney will also purchase a 15% stake in UTV Global Broadcasting Limited for $30 million while UTV will purchase a 75% stake for $60 million.  The remaining 10% will go to the Promoter Group.  UTV produces content for film, TV, and interactive platforms while UGBL has 2 youth channels and a soon-to-launch movie channel through its subsidiaries.  Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL. 

Sunday – A18-49 Analysis:  NBC punched back the competition Sunday night winning with 4.0/10 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX took the early lead at 7p with the last of the Daytona 500 race and King of the Hill rerun averaging a 3.3/9. The middle hours went to ABC as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was #1 at 8p with 4.1/10 and again during 9p with 5.0/12. NBC skidded into first place at 10p as its Knight Rider movie posted a 5.1/13, while CBS’ premiere of Showtime’s Dexter came in third at 2.3/6.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Sunday, February 17, 2008 (February Sweep Day 18) – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research

ABC: 6.6/11     America’s Funniest Videos 5.0/8, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition [2 hours] 7.9/12, Brothers & Sisters 5.7/9

CBS: 5.9/9        60 Minutes 8.1/13, Big Brother 9 4.1/6, Cold Case 6.1/9, Dexter [p] 5.2/9

NBC: 5.4/9        American Gladiators [2-hour f] 3.8/6, Movie: Knight Rider 7.1/11

FOX: 4.3/7        NASCAR: Daytona 500 6.8/12, King of the Hill [r] 3.1/5, The Simpsons 4.5/7, King of the Hill 3.7/6, Family Guy 4.3/6, American Dad 3.3/5

UNIV: 1.2/2       Hora Pico 1.2/2, Chavo Animado 1.2/2, Los 5 Magnificos 1.2/2

CW: 0.6/1         CW Now 0.6/1, Everybody Hates Chris [r] 0.6/1, Everybody Hates Chris [r] 0.7/1, Aliens in America [r] 0.6/1, Girlfriends [r] 0.7/1, The Game [r] 0.6/1

TELE: 0.6/1       Concierto a Caballo: El Chapo de Sinaloa 0.6/1, Cine Millonario 0.6/1

A18-49: NBC 4.0/10, ABC 3.7/9, FOX 3.2/8, CBS 2.1/5, UNIV 1.0/2, TELE 0.5/1, CW 0.3/1

Former TiVo VP, Davina Kent joins Comcast Spotlight, the advertising sales unit of Comcast Cable as Director/Strategic Alliances. While based at Comcast Spotlight’s office in San Francisco, Davina will work closely with clients and agencies to commercialize the company’s advertising products with the goal to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of national advertisers’ marketing strategies. In addition, she will work with national advertisers on multi-platform marketing efforts, expanding existing business relationships and identifying new sales opportunities.

Guardian Television Network, a division of Guardian Enterprise Group, Inc. named Dale Remy as EVP/GM of WSFJ-TV/Columbus to manage the daily operations of the station. Dale replaces Richard Schilg, President and former GM, who will now be able to focus on management of the company’s recent digital broadcast network start-up, .2Network which will launch this month.

Amber J. Lawson joined maniaTV.com as Executive Producer/Head of Comedy where she will broker content partnerships, develop original comedy content and supervise special comedic projects. Prior to this appointment, Amber was SVP/Development at National Lampoon.

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CABLEU

This day in History:  1881 Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  On the TV series House, starring Hugh Laurie, what TV show is Dr. Gregory House’s guilty pleasure?  GENERAL HOSPITAL   Kudos to: Alison Bourke-LaRue Productions/NY; Christina Torres-EXTRA/NY; Lee Simmons-WTNH/New Haven, CT; Debbi Rothenberg-Promonation, Inc./NY; Kyle Brawner-KDAF/Dallas; Judy Margolis-The Ad Place/Dallas; Marcy Goldman/West Hollywood; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-Merv Griffin’s Crosswords/LA; Erwan de Charette-TF1/Paris

Today’s Trivia Question:  This 1950’s TV commercial showed an animated bear dancing around a lake. The slogan was “From the land of sky blue waters.” What brand of beer was this ad for?   (
with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. 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.)

Later  — Cyn
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – Tuesday, February 19, 2008

ABC: Just for Laughs, Just for Laughs [r], According to Jim, Carpoolers, Boston Legal
CBS: NCIS [r], Big Brother 9, Jericho
CW: Reaper [r], One Tree Hill
FOX: American Idol
ION: Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Drew Carey Show, Drew Carey Show, Drew Carey Show, Drew Carey Show
MNT: Street Patrol, Street Patrol [r], Jail, Jail [r]
NBC: The Biggest Loser, Law & Order: SVU [r]
PBS: Nova, Frontline, Independent Lens
TELE: La Traicion, Victoria, Pecados Ajenos
UNIV: Al Diablo con los Guapos, Pasion, Aqui y Ahora

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