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11/29/06
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, November 29, 2006, and this is your first early morning briefing.
Madison Avenue media buyer Jon Mandel has left his post as Chief/Strategic Solutions at Group M to become CEO at VNU in New York to head a new business division called NielsenConnect. This “follow the consumer” department will cull together different VNU resources under one umbrella for clients and gather information from the many VNU companies that collect, analyze and report consumer trends and usage worldwide. “NielsenConnect is about looking forward, and anticipating what’s coming next,” Mandel said. “It’s about connecting consumer information in ways that have never been attempted so our clients can spot trends and move more quickly to maximize their relationships with their customers.” Mandel will report to David L. Calhoun, Chairman and CEO, VNU.
Tonight’s Finale:
CBS: Jericho at 8p with fall finale (show returns mid-season)
Tonight is also the finale of the November Sweep.
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NFL Network has signed a carriage deal with Insight Communications to carry the network’s Thursday and Saturday night NFL games, according to MultiChannel News. Insight originally signed to carry the network a couple of years ago and has it running on its basic tier. The piece left out of that deal was the premium surcharge Insight would have to pay to carry the network’s eight primetime football games. The deal was struck after NFL Network’s premiere game which was played on Thanksgiving evening. For that game and in the NFL Network’s universe of 40 million cable homes, the game delivered a 6.8 HH rating and 4.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Broadcast Evening News numbers for the week of November 20th:
NBC Nightly News 9.47 million viewers – 2.3/9 A25-54 rtg
ABC World News 8.48 million viewers – 2.2/8 A25-54 rtg
CBS Evening News 7.96 million viewers – 2.0/7 A25-54 rtg
The CW will bring back Beauty and the Geek for a third season beginning January 3 with a special two-hour premiere at 8p. Then on January 10, the series will air in its regular time period on Wednesdays at 8p with encores airing on Sundays at 9p. The eight, one-hour episodes are from fox21 and produced by Katalyst Films and 3 Ball Productions.
A&E will soon be the off-network home of The Sopranos when the drama debuts on January 10 at 9p, coinciding with the show’s eight year anniversary of its launch on HBO. A&E will air all episodes in sequential order starting with Episode #1, every Wednesday night at 9p. Each episode will be edited for content, but not for time. The series is produced by HBO Grey Television in association with HBO Original Programming.
The premiere of MTV’s The Real World: Denver last Wednesday night delivered 5.3 million P12-34 viewers, an increase of 10% over last season’s Key West debut. The new Real World made MTV the most watched cable network for the night between 8-11p among P12-34.
Lifetime Television will begin airing Grey’s Anatomy January 7 at 11p, starting with season one and thereafter airing weekly on Sunday nights. Grey’s Anatomy is a Touchstone Television Production and is distributed by Buena Vista Television.
Borrowing on the film An Officer and a Gentleman, ABC has unveiled the next Bachelor: U.S. Navy Lieutenant Andy Baldwin, M.D., an undersea medical officer for a special dive unit stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Andy will star in the tenth season of The Bachelor when it returns next spring. In addition to being a military man and doctor, Andy is an award-winning triathlete who grew up in Lancaster, PA and was the valedictorian of his high school class. Apparently he’s not bad looking either.
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Tomorrow night in the virtual world of Second Life – you know the new and wildly popular 3D virtual life online site where you can create your own persona in avatar form, and mill around and interact with others in the town of Second Life – well, tomorrow night you can go be virtual and still catch NBC’s tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, see the skaters, sing carols and hang out with other virtual folk. To participate, either go to the NBC.com site or check out secondlife.com. And keep an ear to the ground, there’s been a lot of interest in this virtual world since its launch. One of the more recent announcements was Endemol’s virtual production of Big Brother with avatars. Other major money participants on the site include Toyota and Sony, among a slew of others.
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Go Go Luckey in association with Ryan Seacrest Productions will begin production on Paradise City, a new series on E! Entertainment Television, that takes an inside look at the 20-somethings who live and work in Las Vegas. Premiering in 2007, the weekly half-hour series follows three locals who dream of becoming stars: a model, a rock star and a club promoter. Shot entirely in Las Vegas, viewers will have access to Sin City’s casinos, nightclubs, restaurants and private homes.
Court TV has ordered up a second season of Most Shocking, calling for 13 new episodes. The series features crime footage from around the world, and is produced by Nash Entertainment.
Christopher Gorham has been added as a recurring character in the ABC series Ugly Betty. Gorham’s character is an accountant who has a thing for our Betty.
HBO is developing a new series called Preacher, a one hour drama based on the comics series from Vertigo. Per Hollywood Reporter, The Preacher has been possessed by a combination of angel/demon, and as such has enormous powers, and with two companions is traveling the States in search of God, who the Preacher believes has neglected his heavenly duties.
Bravo has reupped Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List for season three. Six new one-hour episodes will return next year, and showing up with Kathy will be her assistant, Jessica, her parents, and a variety of personalities. The series is produced by Picture This Productions.
Young & Rubicam Brands‘ chairman and CEO, Ann Fudge, has announced that she will retire by the end of this year to pursue non-profit work interests. Following 2 years after her prior job as division president at Kraft Foods, Ann began her position at Y&R in May 2003 heading up the group, which includes Y&R, Wunderman, Burson-Marsteller, Landor Associates and Sudler & Hennessey. Y&R has said there are no immediate plans for a successor.
FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW) has named Shannon Sweeny as VP/Integrated Marketing, North America. Shannon will supervise all in-show and off-air sponsorship agreements in North America, including those involving Coca Cola, Ford and Cingular. She will be based in Los Angeles, reporting to Keith Hindle, EVP. In addition, FLW has upped Felicity Carr to Director/Sponsorship and Live Events, reporting to Shannon Sweeny. Felicity relocated to FLW’s New York office from its Sydney office, and she will head off-air sponsorships and live events for FremantleMedia’s U.S. programs.
PetStyle, the broadband network dedicated to pets and their owners, has hired Jill Cordes as Host of PetStyle Central and Petstyle USA.
Krista Saponara has been named Executive Producer for TeamWorks Media, a Chicago-based creative media company. Krista will manage the daily operations of the company’s television programming and production department, as well as develop new TV programming ideas.
MMT has bumped Pam Tierney to Team Manager for the Chicago office, where she will supervise Chicago sales for the company’s Media General stations and KMTV/Omaha.
NBC Universal Cable has elevated Erin Breen to VP/Marketing and Wendy Gross to Manager/Affiliate Sales. Erin is responsible for the affiliate marketing efforts for USA Network, Universal HD and Sleuth as well as NBC HD and the Olympics on cable. Wendy will continue supervising sales for all NBCU Cable entities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa, in addition to extended responsibilities for various MSO corporate accounts.
Stephen Friedman has been promoted to EVP of mtvU. He will continue to work out of the New York office and manage the 24-hour college network as well as the College Publisher network of 500 online college newspapers. Stephen is also charged with growing mtvU’s reach in the college market. He reports to Christina Norman, President, MTV.
GameTap has hired Adam Naide as Director/Relationship Marketing and Cameron Payne as Director/Product Management. Both will be based in Atlanta, reporting to David Reid, VP/Marketing.
Monday – A18-49 Analysis: NBC came out on top Monday night with 5.1/12 A18-49, according to fast affiliate ratings from Nielsen Media Research. CBS was next at 4.4/11, and then ABC 3.8/9, FOX 3.4/8, UNIV 1.6/4, CW 1.4/3 and TELE 0.4/1. NBC took the 8p hour with Deal or No Deal at 5.2/13, followed by Prison Break’s fall finale on FOX at 4.0/10. NBC stayed in the lead at 9p with Heroes at 6.7/16. CBS’ CSI: Miami was first at 10p with 5.6/14, and the second half of The Bachelor’s season finale was #2 at 4.3/11.
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Monday, November 27, 2006 – SWEEP DAY #26 time period averages. Source: Nielsen Media Research
CBS 8.6/13 How I Met Your Mother 6.2/9, The Class 5.5/8, Two and a Half Men 9.9/14, Old Christine 7.9/12, CSI: Miami 11.1/18
NBC 8.2/12 Deal or No Deal 10.8/16, Heroes 9.0/13, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 4.8/8
ABC 6.8/10 Wife Swap 5.9/9, The Bachelor – Finale 7.3/11
FOX 5.3/8 Prison Break – Fall Finale 5.9/9, House [r] 4.7/7
CW 2.2/3 Everybody Hates Chris 2.4/4, All of Us 2.3/3, Girlfriends 2.1/3, The Game 2.0/3
UNIV 2.2/3 La Fea Más Bella 2.7/4, Mundo de Fieras 2.0/3, Cristina 1.8/3
TELE 0.6/1 Marina 0.6/1, Amor Mio 0.7/1, Amores 0.6/1, Decisiones 0.5/1
A18-49: NBC 5.1/12, CBS 4.4/11, ABC 3.8/9, FOX 3.4/8, UNIV 1.6/4, CW 1.4/3, TELE 0.4/1
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The History Channel presents This Day in History:
1942: Although not the most serious sacrifice asked of Americans during World War Two, coffee rationing begins as a response to high military demand and decreased supply. Coffee was removed from the rationing list in July 1943, but sugar was rationed until June 1947.
Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question: What two recent primetime actors from the same TV show, also appeared together in a film starring Sandra Bullock? WILLIAM SHATNER AND CANDACE BERGEN from BOSTON LEGAL Also Appeared In Miss Congeniality Kudos to: Jack Burns-NBC Universal Cable Entertainment Group/Detroit; Adam DePaul/Tampa FL; Greg Janover-Kingworld/NY; Rena Helprin – AETN/NY; Carolyn R. Feltner-Anheuser-Busch, Inc/St Louis; John Scott-SME/Chicago; Eric Merrill-GSD&M/Austin; Keith MacKechnie-The Actors Network/Studio City; Judi Schultz-Woodson Media Inc/Portland OR; Shelley Herman-Smitten Enterprises; Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg- M and S Entertainment/LA; Steven Sherman-Decode Entertainment Inc/Toronto; Shari Siskind-Koladich-The Comedy Network/Toronto
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Later — Cyn
11.29.06
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
ABC Show Me the Money, Day Break, A Special Edition of 20/20
CBS Jericho [f ], Criminal Minds, CSI: NY
CW America’s Next Top Model, One Tree Hill
FOX Bones, Bones [r]
i Mama’s Family, Mama’s Family, Growing Pains, Growing Pains, Diagnosis Murder
MNT Desire, Fashion House
NBC Special: Christmas In Rockefeller Center, The Biggest Loser, Medium
TELE Marina, Amor Mio, Amores, Decisiones
UNIV La Fea Mas Bella, Mundo de Fieras, Don Francisco Presenta
