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6/20/07
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, June 20, 2007 and this is your first early morning briefing. A slightly abbreviated edition this morning … there’s a granddaughter looking to be born sometime today and I’m on my way out the door to be there for her big debut … more on this tomorrow!
In other news …
After what was pretty much considered a huge long audition, the Florida judge in the Anna Nicole Smith case is in talks to develop a daytime court series with CBS Television Distribution, according to a story in today’s Broadcasting & Cable. Judge Larry Seidlin is expected to tape a pilot in early July. The Judge has also resigned his seat on the Florida Circuit Family Court bench, which is effective at the end of July.
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~ MORE GOOD STUFF ~
Cable Upfront Update: Discovery Communications has closed its first upfront deal with Starcom USA across all 11 of its networks, including Travel Channel and BBC America. Incidentally, this agreement was brokered using exact minute ratings from Nielsen All Minute data rather than Average Commercial Minute data. Components of the deal also include digital media and cross-platform sponsorship opportunities.
ABC News and WOI/Des Moines, the ABC affiliate, will have a full house of all Republican and Democrat presidential candidates present for the two live debates happening in August. Each 90-minute debate will be located at Drake University and moderated by George Stephanopoulos with added questions from David Yepsen of The Des Moines Register. The Republican debate is Sunday, August 5 and the Democratic debate is Sunday, August 19, with both airing nationally as a special broadcast of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
TNT’s third season opener of The Closer Monday night (9p) drew in 2.9 million A18-49 viewers and 8.8 million total viewers. With that big of a lead-in, TNT’s new original series premiere of Heartland the same night (10p) had 1.2 million A18-49 viewers and 4.3 million total viewers.
Adult Swim’s debut of the half-hour Robot Chicken Star Wars over four telecasts Sunday night (10p, 11p, 12a and 1a) drew in 711,000 A18-34 viewers and 426,000 A18-24 viewers. The special also scored 481,000 M18-34 viewers and 299,000 M18-24 viewers.
Golf Channel’s upcoming new original series Fore Inventors Only, which will premiere July 10 at 10p, has three top-flight golf judges lined up to assess more than a hundred golf inventions, eventually narrowing them down to five finalists. The judges are: Fulton Allem, PGA TOUR pro who hails from South Africa; Bill Harmon, Golf Digest top-50 instructor; and Stina Sternberg, Golf for Women senior editor. Viewers will have a say which of the five inventions will ultimately win and the announcement will occur during the show’s live finale on September 4.
BET will debut a new late night M-F series on July 9 at 11p called Take the Cake, from Endemol USA. The show combines talk and game show, and with an interactive component, also draws in the home viewer to play along via the internet or text messaging. The show will be hosted by Toccara and Joe Clair, both familiar to BET viewers.
SCI FI Channel is giving its viewers more of Who Wants to be a Superhero? as the reality competition series returns for a second season beginning July 26 at 9p and expands by two additional episodes to eight in total. This season’s 10 contestants will vie to have their alter-ego immortalized in a new comic book from Dark Horse Comics created by Stan Lee as well as an action figure designed by Shocker Toys. The series is produced by Nash Entertainment and POW! Entertainment Inc.
According to her own blog, Rosie O’Donnell is scheduled to meet this week with the folks at CBS’ daytime gamer The Price is Right, and discuss her potentially taking over for Bob Barker. At the Daytime Emmys the other night, Barker suggested Rosie would be a good replacement for him, and apparently she agrees. Other potential replacement candidates include George Hamilton, John O’Hurley and ET’s Mark Steines.
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~ PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT ~
Casting Call: Have you dreamed of being a pro basketball player? You’ll have the opportunity this summer with the Miller Lite Go Pro Challenge. Basketball players are invited to submit a 3-minute video reel showing how well they can dunk to become a member of the Miller Lite 30 Pack and go on to attend the closed Official D-League Pre-Draft Camp in Dallas July 28-29 for a chance to try-out in front of coaches, scouts and league officials. Video crews will also be in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston and Las Vegas to help with footage for a submission reel. For more information, visit NBA.com/gopro.
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Premier Retail Networks (PRN) has recruited David Goldstein, formerly of Walt Disney Pictures and MGM/UA, to lead its advertising sales team located in Santa Monica. David and his team will be charged with all feature film, television, home video, video game and music advertising. In addition, PRN has hired both Alicia Cachuela and Stephanie Leitner as VP/Entertainment Sales to join its advertising sales management team.
Disney-ABC Television Group has appointed Gary Shanas to the new position of VP/Media Strategy where he will manage paid media plans and develop relationships with media planning and buying agencies to further their strategies and development plans for ABC network across all dayparts, including ABC.com and ABC Family. Gary will also work with marketing teams associated with ABC Television Network and ABC Family. He will report to Jim McClintock, SVP/ABC Network Media.
David Christopher will be the new Executive News Director at WPEC News 12/West Palm Beach starting in early July.
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- 4Kids Entertainment puts off launch of the Chaotic trading card game and website again
- DreamWorks Animation SKG taps Mattel, Inc. as the global master toy licensee for Kung Fu Panda
- The 2007 Licensing Show continues in NYC
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- TEMPO, PSI, MTV Staying Alive, and UNICEF launching new interactive drama Choices – Roots, Reality, Culture
- The AIM Tell-A-Vision Group launching new video-on-the-web network, The American Latino TV Network
- Bravo to debut OUTzoneTV.com‘s Ask A Gay Man webisode series
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- YouTube has gone global, launching 9 foreign-based sites
- Sony’s Minisode Network is up and running on MySpace
- Rocketboom is coming to a Facebook page near you
~ RATINGS ~
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among A18-49 for the week of 6/11-6/17/07
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
USA 1278 TNT 626
TBSC 1140 ADSM* 575
TNT 915 USA 552
DISC 756 TBSC 541
SPK 705 NICK 485
AEN 626 DISC 442
LIF 623 NAN* 439
SCIF 622 LIF 389
FX 613 CMDY 386
CMDY 592 ESPN 363
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 homes
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p)
Top Ten Basic Cable Ad Supported Network Rankings among Total Viewers for the week of 6/11-6/17/07
Primetime (000) Total Pgm Day (000)
USA 2725 NICK 2122
TNT 2121 TNT 1287
TBSC 2051 NAN* 1244
LIF 1646 ADSM* 1187
DISC 1446 TOON 1140
FOXN 1427 USA 1138
NAN 1326 TBSC 947
ESPN 1307 LIF 898
AEN 1286 DISC 846
SCIF 1282 FOXN 795
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 homes
* = Network broadcasts less than 51% of minutes in a 24 hour day. Primetime listing only includes those networks broadcasting more than 51% of the primetime hours (M-Su 8p-11p)
Top 10 Cable Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of 6/11-6/17/07
USA WWE Entertainment 10p 3105
USA WWE Entertainment 9p 2773
TNT Nextel Cup/Michigan 2367
USA WWE Entertainment 8p 2168
DISC Deadliest Catch 2106
TBSC Hitch 2016
TBSC House of Payne 1913
USA The Starter Wife 1895
HIST Ice Road Truckers 1785
LIF Army Wives 1785
Source Turner Research from Nielsen Media Research Data.
All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 homes
Top 10 Broadcast Programs among A18-49 (000) for the week of 6/11-6/17/07
FOX Hell’s Kitchen 5,560
ABC NBA Finals on ABC GM 4 5,180
FOX So You Think You Can Dance THU 5,250
NBC America’s Got Talent 5,080
ABC NBA Finals on ABC GM 3 4,980
FOX So You Think You Can Dance WED 4,760
FOX Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? 4,190
NBC Last Comic Standing 5 3,730
CBS CSI: Miami 3,660
CBS Two and a Half Men 3,590
Source Nielsen Media Research, Galaxy Explorer, Live + SD Data
MONDAY – A18-49 Analysis: NBC notched a win Monday night at 3.2/9 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. The finale of NBC’s Deal or No Deal captured #1 at 8p with a 3.1/10. Fox, however, breathed fire into the ratings at 9p, winning with Hell’s Kitchen and a 3.4/9, while the premiere of NBC’s new reality series Age of Love did a 2.4/7 – ranking third overall. NBC fought back and came in first at 10p with Dateline at 4.1/12.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, June 18, 2007 – time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
NBC 7.0/12 Deal or No Deal [f] 7.7/14, Age of Love [p] 4.9/8, Dateline: NBC 8.4/14
CBS 4.8/8 Creature Comforts 2.8/5, Old Christine [r] 2.8/5, Two and a Half Men [r] 5.9/10, How I Met Your Mother [r] 4.9/8, CSI: Miami [r] 6.1/10
ABC 3.3/6 Wife Swap [r] 4.1/7, Ex-Wives Club 2.8/5, Supernanny [r] 2.9/5
FOX 3.2/5 The Simpsons [r] 2.3/4, American Dad [r] 2.0/3, Hell’s Kitchen 4.3/7
UNIV 2.1/4 La Fea Más Bella 2.2/4, Destilando Amor 2.3/4, Cristina 1.9/3
CW 1.2/2 Everybody Hates Chris [r] 1.3/2, All of Us [r] 1.3/2, Girlfriends [r] 1.1/2, The Game [r] 1.1/2
TELE 0.7/1 Marina 0.7/1, Zorro 0.7/1, La Esclava Isaura 0.7/1
A18-49: NBC 3.2/9, FOX 2.5/8, CBS 2.2/7, ABC 1.8/5, UNIV 1.7/5, CW 0.7/2, TELE 0.5/1
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This Day in History: 1946 – The first game show, Cash and Carry, with host Dennis James, premiered.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
ABC: The Next Best Thing, American Inventor, Traveler
CBS: AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition
CW: Hidden Palms, One Tree Hill
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance
ION: Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Diagnosis Murder, Wonder Years, Wonder Years
MNT: American Heiress, Saints & Sinners
NBC: Last Comic Standing, Last Comic Standing, Dateline
PBS: Secrets of the Dead [r], Great Performances, Great Performances [r]
TELE: Marina, Zorro, Esclava Isaura
UNIV: La Fea Más Bella, Yo Amo a Juan Querendon, Destilando Amor, Don Francisco Presenta
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