Summer offers lesons for people in TV; Sign of the times:Broadcast...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  September 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ......offered by the broadcast networks this summer was exactly...up that the broadcast networks should think about taking summer more seriously...shows that in summers when cable...do well, the broadcast networks have a slow...

Basic Cable to Overtake Broadcast Networks in Prime Time by 2001, Predicts...

PR Newswire;  April 13, 1999 ;     436 words ......will surpass that of the four major broadcast networks by 2001 and the six broadcast networks by 2003, as audience fragmentation...Basic Cable Share Four Broadcast Six Broadcast Networks Share Networks Share 1999 41 51 64...

Taking a Fresh Summer Approach; Vying With Cable, Broadcasters Can't...

TelevisionWeek;  May 26, 2003 ;     507 words ......programming, a number of networks appear to be looking at summer as an opportunity to get creative, take chances...new-in other words, to do more than merely survive summer. They are launching first-run programming that could...a serious plunge into original programming this summer with the launch of a ...

Hint to broadcast networks: bold is beautiful.(AIRTIME)(broadcast networks...

Broadcasting & Cable;  August 22, 2005 ;     503 words ......symptom of the battle it and other broadcast networks are losing to cable. When cable started...them, along with a few stations. For broadcast networks, the problem is the excitement and...can use media and creative that the broadcast networks can't. For example, A&E, for...

Networks Fuel Ratings Race; Broadcasters Challenge Cable's Annual Summer...

TelevisionWeek;  June 9, 2003 ;     700+ words ......to make their mark with new-series launches and summer-long stunts. But broadcasters aren't on vacation...fight as their rivals become more aggressive with summer slates this season. That puts the pressure on cablers...with their most intense lineups ever. It's also a summer that will test viewers' ...

Cable's summer lineup cuts into broadcast networks' hold on TV.

Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX);  September 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ......that old-world order, summer was a dead zone of new...shows. In the new world, summer has become a second...debuting new shows: This summer saw the premiere of...are jumping in with summer programming: because...fraction of what the big broadcast networks create, a few ...

Cable gains in sweeps; broadcast slips. (cable television; broadcast...

Multichannel News;  January 4, 1993 ;     168 words ......a year ago, while ratings for the broadcast networks slightly dropped over the same period...collective average primetime rating for broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC dropped 3 percent...the cable ratings grew despite the broadcast networks' line-up of first-run series and...

Financial Ed`s Perspective On Major Broadcast Networks Convention...

Street Sweep (CNNfn);  July 28, 2004 ;     573 words ......ANCHOR, STREET SWEEP: The three major broadcast networks are devoting just three hours of...maybe I shouldn`t complain that the broadcast networks have so shamefully abrogated their...I think it`s a disgrace for those broadcast networks, which after all are given the privilege...

Arresting television. (Eye on Programming).(broadcast networks repurpose...

Multichannel News;  February 24, 2003 ;     318 words ...Last summer, when broadcast networks NBC and ABC repurposed episodes of...cable's assault on the stranglehold broadcast networks once held on both viewers and the...significant amount of viewers. Just ask the broadcast networks.

Cable takes back seat in soft upfront market; Price hike expectations...

TelevisionWeek;  June 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......making presentations ahead of the broadcast networks and offering attractive pricing...inking deals with ABC and most other broadcast networks first. That was really surprising...food chain, stealing some of the broadcast networks' thunder by increasingly doing deals...

FCC Takes First Step Toward Letting Broadcast Networks Buy Cable Systems

The Washington Post;  August 5, 1988 ;     418 words ......took a first step toward allowing broadcast networks to buy the cable systems that have...franchises to the once all-powerful broadcast networks that have been searching for ways...cable system business. Unlike the broadcast networks, the phone companies are likely to...

The repurposeful new NBC.(Fast Track)(the combined NBC and Universal would...

Broadcasting & Cable;  September 22, 2003 ;     125 words ......combined NBC and UNIVERSAL would make TV shows for all six broadcast networks, as well as NBC's own cable nets, said NBC Entertainment...Television Society's annual luncheon last week with the broadcast networks' six entertainment presidents. Zucker says he expects...

HBO beats broadcast nets on Saturdays. (Home Box Office earns better...

Multichannel News;  June 10, 1991 ;     540 words ......that it defeated each of the three broadcast networks on Saturday nights in its universe...Saturday has historically been the broadcast networks' weakest night. Many viewers go out...or watching pay cable, costing the broadcast networks more viewers. HBO especially loads...

Inspired Broadcast Networks selects Tiscali for broadband over LLU...

Telecomworldwire;  September 11, 2006 ;     137 words ...TELECOMWORLDWIRE-11 September 2006-Inspired Broadcast Networks selects Tiscali for broadband over LLU network...gaming, betting and entertainment company, Inspired Broadcast Networks (Inspired). Under the terms of the contract, Inspired...

Prime time's new reality: for fall, broadcast networks bend the rules of...

Broadcasting & Cable;  August 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ......few shows this summer. That's the way...year-round programming. Broadcast networks feel cable's heat...time's hours on the broadcast networks, up from 10% last...Time on Sept. 7. Summer shows North Shore...territory? Hot off a summer when more viewers...than the seven ...