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Good Morning. It’s Wednesday, January 9, 2008, and this is your first early morning briefing. And the winners for the People’s Choice Awards included – Dancing with the Stars, Two and a Half Men, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Knocked Up, Rascal Flatts, and a slew of others. The awards were announced last night on CBS in a magazine style format hosted by Queen Latifah and pre-recorded acceptance speeches from the winners. For the full list of winners, click here. Tonight’s Premieres: ~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
FX is adding Dirt, starring Courteney Cox, back to its schedule as the second season opens March 2 at 10p. Returning as series regulars to the drama are Ian Hart, Josh Stewart and Alexandra Breckenridge. The show was originally given a 13 episode order, but only 7 were produced before the writers’ strike. Dirt is co-produced by ABC Studios and FX in association with Coquette Productions. Broadcast Evening News Ratings Wrap-Up: During another holiday week with lots of sports and political coverage, NBC’s Nightly News ended up on top. It should be noted that ABC’s weekly average included three days (Wed-Fri) while NBC’s and CBS’ is based on four days (Tues-Fri). Here are the results for the week of December 31, 2007: NBC is offering American Gladiators for additional sampling, allowing the first three episodes of the new series to be re-purposed on three consecutive weekend afternoons on the NBC O&Os and affiliates beginning next weekend. The move harkens back to the original syndicated American Gladiators which often aired on local stations weekend afternoons. Gladiators premiered last Sunday night and averaged a 5.9/14 among A18-49. In its regular time period last Monday night at 8p, Gladiators averaged a 4.8/12 A18-49. A new study released by SNL Kagan, “Benchmarking Cable TV Advertising Statistics” reported the 2007 market was divided between national growth and local market weakness. SNL Kagan further forecasts a 10% CAGR for national cable ad sales between 2007 and 2011, reaching a projected total of more than $28 billion. Local market cable ad sales are expected to grow at a lesser pace of 6.8% in the next five years, reaching an estimated $5.7 billion by 2011. ~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
CBS and Showtime are teaming again to produce Big Brother: After Dark, a live televised behind-the-scenes view inside the Big Brother house after the network primetime cameras leave. Big Brother: After Dark will offer a live three-hour feed, seven days a week on SHO2 starting February 12 at 12a. The new winter version of Big Brother starts February 12 on CBS, airing on Tuesdays at 9p and Wednesdays and Sundays at 8p. Returning to A&E is The Two Coreys starring Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, with an order for 10 new episodes from RDF USA and Tijuana Ent. A&E is looking at a spring premiere. ~ ELSEWHERE IN CYNOPSIS ~
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CYN OPSIS KIDS – TODAY’S TOP STORY: MTV Networks has inked a number of third-party online distribution deals for content from its networks including its Nickelodeon, The N, MTV and Comedy Central as well as GameTrailers, AtomFilms and others. Under the new deals MTVN content will be available via Dailymotion, GoFish, Imeem, MeeVee and Veoh Networks. Click here for the full KIDS edition. CYN OPSIS INTERNATIONAL – TODAY’S TOP STORY: At a press conference yesterday, French president Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that the country remove advertising on public TV. Other aspects of his speech touched on laying taxes or duties on private media or certain aspects of their ad sales businesses such as mobile and internet to compensate for the ad revenue difference. Interestingly, French private broadcasters’ shares on the market increased when the news got out. The timeframe for any possible legislation to drop public TV advertising will not be for another 2 years. Click here for the full INTERNATIONAL edition. ~ RATINGS ~
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among A18-49 for the week of: 12/31/07-1/6/08 Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the week of: 12/31/07-1/6/08 Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of: 12/31/07-1/6/08 Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 rating/share and (000) for the week of 12/31/07-1/6/08 Monday – A18-49 Analysis: FOX tallied the highest ratings Monday with 7.6/18 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. FOX swept the night with its Allstate BCS Championship Bowl game: at 8p FOX did a 7.3/18, while NBC’s new American Gladiators came next at 4.8/12 and the debut of ABC’s Dance War was third at 2.8/7. At 9p, FOX’s ratings rose to 8.3/19. Then at 10p, the Ohio State vs. LSU game on FOX settled back down to a winning 7.2/18 and the season premiere of Medium on NBC was second at 3.3/8. Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, January 7, 2008 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research FOX: 13.5/20 Allstate BCS Championship Bowl: Ohio State vs. LSU [3 hours] 13.5/20 NBC: 6.4/10 American Gladiators 6.1/9, Deal or No Deal 6.7/10, Medium [p] 6.4/10 ABC: 6.1/9 Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann [2-hour p] 7.4/11, October Road 3.5/6 CBS: 5.5/8 How I Met Your Mother [r] 3.9/6, The Big Bang Theory [r] 4.1/6, Two and a Half Men [r] 7.3/11, Two and a Half Men [r] 5.2/8, CSI: Miami [r] 6.3/10 UNIV: 1.9/3 Amar sin Limites 1.9/3, Pasion 1.9/3, Cristina 1.8/3 CW: 1.2/2 Everybody Hates Chris [r] 1.5/2, Aliens in America [r] 1.1/2, Girlfriends [r] 1.1/2, The Game [r] 1.2/2 TELE: 0.7/1 Madre Luna 0.8/1, Victoria 0.9/1, Pecados Ajenos 0.6/1 A18-49: FOX 7.6/18, NBC 3.9/9, CBS 2.7/7, ABC 2.6/6, UNIV 1.5/4, CW 0.7/2, TELE 0.6/1 ~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~
Washington, D.C.-based The Fratelli Group added Christie Parell, former Spokesperson and Director/Coalitions Media in the Office of Media Affairs at the White House. Carrie Welch advanced to VP/Public Relations for Food Network to supervise all internal and external communications activities. In addition, Carrie will negotiate and seek out new opportunities to integrate new media partners into Food Network series and events. She will also continue to head the network’s charitable partnership with Share Our Strength. Comcast Spotlight, the advertising sales unit of Comcast Cable, upgraded Jonathan M. Bernard to the new position of Director/Automotive Advertising Sales. Jonathan will oversee the local, regional and national automotive sales team and is charged with growing the spot business as well as the interactive offerings such as on demand and Comcast.net. Bernard has been with Comcast since 1998 and reports to John Tierney, VP/Regional/National Sales, Comcast Spotlight. Brenda Freeman is named CMO, Turner Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media. Reporting to EVP and COO, Stuart Snyder, Brenda is responsible for heading all marketing, on-air and trade creative services supporting Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang and their related online businesses, as well as the digital efforts GameTap and Super Deluxe. Shane Norman is now Internet Sales Manager for WNYW and WWOR/New York, the FOX and MyNetworkTV affiliates respectively owned and operated by FOX Television Stations. Shane begins his new position next Monday. Matt Turner has joined Gospel Music Channel as VP/Eastern Region Ad Sales based in New York. Matt reports to Barbara Bekkedahl, VP/Ad Sales and Sales Operations. Fox Broadcasting hired Brian Owens as VP/Marketing Strategy and Analytics from Nestle U.S.A. to concentrate on analyzing, evaluating and recommending short and long-term strategic marketing efforts and brand strategy for the network. Brian will report to Joe Earley, EVP/Marketing and Communications. Jennifer Purtan was appointed VP/Sales for WWJ-TV and WKBD-TV, the CBS-owned duopoly in Detroit. In her new role, Jennifer will manage all sales efforts, new business development and digital sales for both stations’ web sites. Turner Entertainment Networks made John Heath its SVP/Finance. John will spearhead financial tasks including budgeting, forecasting, analysis, reporting and more for networks TBS, TNT, TCM and truTV. Based in Atlanta, John will report to Jim Gewert, EVP/Finance and Administration, Turner Entertainment Group in addition to working closely with Steve Koonin, President, Turner Entertainment Networks and his leadership team. A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CABLEU 2008 is here … Are U ready?
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Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: Shindig (1964-1966) was a prime time music variety show featuring live performances by top names in popular music. Who was the host of this show? JIMMY O’NEILL Kudos to: Randy Ingram-WYCW/Spartanburg, SC; Jim Ryan-AETN/New York; Kimberly Keeley-Safety4Kids / Stamford; Gary A. Stark-Scripps Television Station Group/Cleveland; Bob Sieber-Sieber Media Research/Birmingham; Kristin Staskowski-Marketron Broadcast Solutions; Tom Nankival-WKOW/Madison, WI; Peggy Dalland-KTTC/Rochester, MN; Don Wollman-Big Brother/Los Angeles; Alan Perris-Television Academy/North Hollywood; Pat Brady-CESD Talent/LA; Rus Sarnoff- Integrated Marketing, LLC/LA Today’s Trivia Question: Who is the dispatcher calling when it pages “7-MARY-4” or “LA-15-MARY-3”? ( Later — Cyn Cynopsis Ad Sales: Cynopsis website – Video Resumes, Extended Classified Ads, Archives, and the Cynopsis Daily Video CableU – Know Networks Better. Pitch Smarter. Click here
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