Top 5 Syndicated Strip Ratings [2007/08 Season]
Show                                A18-49          A25-54
Two and a Half Men          3.4  #1          3.8  #1
Judge Judy                       2.3               2.9
Family Guy                        3.3               2.8
Seinfeld                            2.6               2.7
Raymond                          2.4               2.6

Source: NSS, Galaxy Explorer, SPTD thru 8/17/08, L+SD, AA/GAA%, Rank on A25-54 Rtg

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09/02/08

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, September 2, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. 

Tonight’s Premieres:
The CW: 90210 at 8p
Planet Green: Stuff Happens at 9p
FX: The Shield at 10p
Golf Channel: School of Golf: Hilton Head Island at 11p

Tonight’s Finale:
ABC: Wanna Bet at 902p

Republican National Convention coverage began Monday night (although the GOP truncated RNC events due to Hurricane Gustav) and will continue through Thursday night (check listings for networks/times)

According to Nielsen, the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention last Thursday, which featured Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, drew in a combined total of 38.4 million total viewers from ten networks offering live coverage from approximately 10-11p: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo. The combined total from the ten networks among A18-49 viewers was 16.0 million. PBS got a bump in total viewers for its coverage Thursday night between 8-11p to 3.5 million.

As the CW Network prepares to launch the first of its new fall shows tonight, Tribune owned CW affiliates in some cities have been busy stripping “CW” out of its marketing plan.  In Houston, KHCW has received new call letters – KAIH; in Dallas CW33 is now known as The 33; and Washington DC’s CW50 is now referred to as DC50, reports Variety.  These changes follow the San Diego Tribune station which switched affiliations from The CW to Fox a few months ago.  Tribune’s WPIX in New York City is still known as CW11, at least online, as Variety points out.

IFC will offer its viewers a series of six news segments surrounding the 2008 Presidential election. The weekly segments begin tonight with highlights from the recent Democratic National Convention in Denver and future segments will follow on Tuesday nights with coverage from the Republican National Convention, ending with a segment in October that takes a look inside both Senators Obama and McCain’s political campaigns.

BBC is jumping into American politics and will broadcast news and information for its global US08 Election coverage via a bus tour over 38 days. In addition to offering TV, radio and online coverage, BBC will have 12 unique BBC World Service language teams joining the bus tour.

People magazine will feature CBS’ fall lineup with exclusive ads in the September 22 issue. Twenty ads in total will sport artwork depicting characters from returning shows leading into new CBS shows making their premiere this fall.

With a sad and heavy heart I share with you an email I received on Friday from Scott Carlin at HBO regarding Tommy Cerio’s wife and one true love, Donna, which reads in part:  “In the fading moments of summer 2008, Friday August 29th at approximately 3:30 am, Donna [Arnold] Cerio made her transition. As she lived her life, this moment came in peace, at home, wrapped in the tender, loving embrace of her husband Tommy. A life extinguished, yes, but Donna’s life force lives-on in many ways, none more so than through the spirit and love that radiates from her son’s Dom and Vic and of course, Tommy.”  A memorial service is planned for Saturday, September 6 at 10am, at St. Catherine of Sienna Church, Riverside, CT.  In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, Attn: Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D., Box 0518, San Francisco, CA 94143-0518. 

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Estimates: August 29-31, 2008
Tropic Thunder (Paramount/DreamWorks)      $11.5 million – 3 wk total $83.8m
Babylon A.D. (Fox)                                       $9.7 million – opening weekend
The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.)                      $8.8 million – 7 wk total $502.4m
The House Bunny (Sony)                               $8.3 million – 2 wk total $27.9m
Traitor (Overture Films)                                 $7.9 million – 1 wk total $9.4m
Death Race (Universal)                                  $6.2 million – 2 wk total $23.1m
Disaster Movie (Lionsgate)                             $6.2 million – opening weekend
Mamma Mia! (Universal)                                 $4.4 million – 7 wk total $131.5m
Pineapple Express (Sony)                               $3.4 million – 4 wk total $79.8m
Vicky Christina Barcelona (MGM/W)                 $3.0 million – 3 wk total $12.8m
Source: Box Office Mojo

CYNOPSIS DIGITAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The browser wars are heating up again. Google is launching a new open-source browser called Chrome in about 100 countries later today, designed as a streamlined platform to display web pages and run popular Google applications. (Click here to check out a comic book that spells out its features.) Chrome seems to borrow bits and pieces from other popular browsers including tab buttons enabling you to switch back and forth between open windows (a la Firefox,) and web apps that can be launched in their own browser window without an address or toolbar. Other handy features include an “incognito” privacy mode allowing users to cover their tracks from subsequent users (known as InPrivate in the newest Internet Explorer browser.) Full edition: CYN DIGITAL.

CYNOPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: The weekend proved a significant one for Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight, which swooped through the $500 million marker in domestic box office receipts, reaching $504.7 million, according to the weekend estimates reported by Box Office Mojo.  The Dark Knight reached the milestone in just 45 day, and is now the second biggest domestic grossing movie ever behind Paramount’s Titanic (1997), which still holds strong in first place with $600.8 million.  Titanic too 91 days to reach pour through $500 million.  The movie is expected to top out at about $530 million domestically, per just about every analyst and every report everywhere on earth.  Full edition: CYN KIDS.

CYNOPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) is launching its first international high-def service dedicated to music and kids. The 24-hour, English-language MTVNHD (MTV Networks High Definition) begins its life on September 15 in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland and Sweden at noon (CET) with 30 Seconds to Mars’ video A Beautiful Lie. More than 300 hours of programming has been ordered up for the next two years from the companies’ brands.  The next moves will most likely be into France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the U.K., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela by the end of this year.  MTVNI’s Emerging Markets Group, which will operate MTVNHD, will produce and broadcast the channel from its Warsaw hub with content produced by other global MTV Networks production divisions in Southern Europe, the U.K. and Latin America. Full edition: CYN INTERNATIONAL.

Thursday – A18-49 Analysis: NBC and UNIV shared the top spot Thursday night at 2.2/6 A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. At 8p, Al Diablo con Guapos edged into first place with a 2.3/7 just ahead of CBS’ Big Brother 10 at 2.2/7. Next at 9p, FOX’s The Moment of Truth tied with UNIV’s Fuego en La Sangre at 2.1/6 apiece. During 10p, NBC’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention won with 2.7/7.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Thursday, August 28, 2008 time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

NBC: 3.9/6         NBC NFL Pre-Season: Jacksonville at Washington [began at 7p] 2.0/4, NBC News Decision ’08: Democratic National Convention 3.9/6       

CBS: 3.6/6              Big Brother 3.8/6, CSI [r] 3.7/6, CBS News Campaign 2008: Democratic National Convention 3.3/5

ABC: 3.3/5            Ugly Betty [r] 2.3/4, Grey’s Anatomy [r] 2.9/5, ABC News Vote 2008: Democratic National Convention 4.5/7

FOX: 2.9/5            The Moment of Truth 2.5/4, The Moment of Truth 3.4/5

UNIV: 2.5/4          Al Diablo con los Guapos 2.6/4, Fuego en la Sangre 2.4/4, La Gran Noche Democrata [No ratings for this program available]

CW: 1.1/2             Smallville [r] 1.3/2, Supernatural [r] 1.0/2

MNT: 0.9/1           My Thursday Night Movie: I Witness [r] 0.9/1

TELE: 0.5/1          El Juramento 0.4/1, Dona Barbara 0.6/1, Gran Celebracion Democrata [No ratings for this program available]

A18-49: NBC 2.2/6, UNIV 2.2/6, CBS 1.7/5, FOX 1.7/5, ABC 1.5/4, CW 0.6/2, MNT 0.4/1, TELE 0.4/1

Vault.com, online career and recruiter information space provider, hired Jonathan Spaet as EVP/U.S. Sales. Clearly, a brilliant move.

Kerstin Mogull, the BBC‘s Deputy Director/Policy and Strategy, is moving to a newly created position at the company. The COO/Future Media and Technology will manage the FMT division and work with other BBC units such as visual, audio, music and journalism and the BBC Trust.  She reports to FMT’s Director, Erik Huggers.

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This day in History:  Born on this day: Christa McAuliffe (1948), Terry Bradshaw (1948), Jimmy Connors (1952), k.d. lang (1961), Keanu Reeves (1964), Salma Hayek (1966)

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  The fictitious Tuscany Valley was the locale for what long-running primetime soap TV series?  FALCON CREST Kudos to: Sally Ferrante-NBC-Universal/NY; Jeff Adams-Promotions.com/NY; Jeffrey Hira-Nickelodeon/ NY; Greg West-WATC/Atlanta; C.Angelique Garr-Journalista Group/Dallas; Bob Sieber/Birmingham, AL; Kandy Hartsfield-KDAF/Dallas; Tom Nankival-WKOW/Madison, WI; Tom Kilgallon-KDOC/Orange County; Scott Freeman-Bunim/Murray Productions/Van Nuys, CA; Juanita Collins/ LA; Jane Shayne-Ellman Entertainment/LA; Zohrain Zafar, Canwest Media Inc./Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question: At the start of the movie You’ve Got Mail, Joe Fox emailed Kathleen Kelly telling her that if he knew who she was, he would send her a bouquet of what?  (Email
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Enjoy the long holiday weekend!

Later — Cyn
09.02.08

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  Tuesday, September 2, 2008

ABC: Wipeout [r] , Wanna Bet, ABC News Vote ’08: The Republican National Convention
AZTECA: Camino a la Fama, Los 25 Mas, Pasiones Prohibidas
CBS: NCIS [r], Big Brother 10, CBS News: Republican National Convention
CW: 90210 [p ]
FOX: House [r]
ION: Quantum Leap, The Dead Zone, ER
MNT: Street Patrol [r], Street Patrol [r], Jail [r], Jail [r]
NBC: America’s Got Talent, 2008 Republican National Convention
PBS: 2008 Republican National Convention Coverage
TELE: El Juramento, Dona Barbara, Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso
UNIV: Al Diablo con los Guapos, Fuego en la Sangre, Aqui y Ahora

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