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...

Madonna concert ratings top broadcast networks. (Home Box Office Inc....

Multichannel News;  August 13, 1990 ;     310 words ...Madonna Concert Ratings Top Broadcast Networks NEW YORK - Home Box Office...Ambition tour beat out all four broadcast networks in households subscribing to HBO. The network said the one-time-...rating and a 31 share in HBO homes. That's a record for...non-sports original programming on ...

Broadcast Networks Retain Emmys

AP Online;  November 14, 2002 ;     451 words ......ANGELES (AP) _ HBO failed in its bid...from the major broadcast networks but helped drive...to stay with the broadcast networks was reached during...lineup opposite an HBO awards show and...miniseries for HBO's Band of Brothers...in Los Angeles. HBO, which has ...

Emmys to Stay at Broadcast Networks

AP Online;  November 14, 2002 ;     451 words ......ANGELES (AP) _ HBO failed in its bid...from the major broadcast networks but helped drive...to stay with the broadcast networks was reached during...lineup opposite an HBO awards show and...miniseries for HBO's Band of Brothers...in Los Angeles. HBO, which has ...

More alliances between cable, broadcast likely. (cable TV services, TV...

Multichannel News;  August 12, 1991 ;     700+ words ......Miller said, All three broadcast networks have asked us about...On other fronts, HBO Independent Productions...brewing with the broadcast networks. Lifetime Television...show format. The broadcast networks' troubled news divisions...

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

Broadcasting & Cable;  August 22, 2005 ;     503 words ......battle it and other broadcast networks are losing to cable...few stations. For broadcast networks, the problem is...country right now is HBO. As an agency that...creative that the broadcast networks can't. For example...Angel. How can the broadcast networks ...

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

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  September 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ......cable channel and one of the seven broadcast networks, respectively. That's right - 38...of new programming offered by the broadcast networks this summer was exactly the same...again: There's nothing new on the broadcast networks after Memorial Day, so it's time...

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...

Envy at the Emmys: It's not just HBO: Basic cable channels may steal more...

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  September 16, 2007 ;     485 words ......sink to an all-time low, the broadcast networks could be in for more pain yet...expensive premium channels as HBO and Showtime. Basic advertiser-support...whether Hollywood wants to give HBO's The Sopranos the sendoff...Valli played a gangster in the HBO series.) Here are my picks...

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...

Broadcast Networks Team with Former Cable Foes.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  November 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ......cable. CNN, Cartoon Network, HBO and TNT? All cousins of...Parents of the top six broadcast networks own or have stakes in 29...In the 1990-91 TV season, broadcast networks commanded 71 percent of...cable is virtually tied with broadcast networks for audience share. They...

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...