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‘Saturday Night Live': From Hobbits to Hounds, Mastering Quick Changes
Among the Emmy nominations “SNL” received was for hair and makeup on the Jan. 19 episode hosted by Jennifer Lawrence. Sketches included parodies of “The Hobbit” and “Hunger Games.” Bettie O. Rogers,...
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ESPN Strives to Maintain Its Lead As Competition Heats Up
As media conglomerates other than owner Walt Disney launch their own sports-focused cablers, the question is whether the Bristol, Conn.-based powerhouse can dominate the field or if it must share the...
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Huge Upside for Launch of Fox Sports 1 and 2 Channels
On Aug. 17, viewers will wake up to find the lower-key Speed and Fuel networks transformed into high-adrenaline national sports channels intended to make an immediate impression — among sports fans and...
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UFC Scores in Ratings on Opening Night for Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 1 is off and running. The new national sports network, which launched Saturday in approximately 90 million homes, drew good ratings for a UFC fights Saturday night — handily beating the...
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TV Review: ‘Fox Sports 1’s Crowd Goes Wild’
There’s really no such thing as reinventing a sports network at this point in the game, and Fox Sports 1 — which launched over the weekend as a complement, more than an alternative, to ESPN — isn’t...
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NBC Taps Heidi Klum, Matt Lauer To Draw Broader Crowd for “Sunday Night...
NBCUniversal is trying to widen the audience for its flagship property “Sunday Night Football” with a series of promos that burnish the pigskin showcase among not only sports fans but also...
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Why Aaron Sorkin Is Right About the Huffington Post
During a panel discussion earlier this week previewing the new TV season, I worried, in regard to journalism, that “the metabolism of the Web is making us stupid.” Aaron Sorkin is equally concerned —...
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Fox Sports Promotes Marketing Guru Robert Gottlieb
Senior veep and head of marketing Robert Gottlieb upped to exec veep of marketing.
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Fox Sports 1 Averages 160,000 Viewers Nightly in First Week
Numbers are in for the first full week of national sports channel Fox Sports 1, and the net has left plenty of room for improvement. Nielsen estimates that FS1 averaged 161,000 viewers in primetime, a...
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CNBC’s ‘Money Talks’ Premieres to Small Ratings Tuesday Night
CNBC’s push into reality programming has yielded modest ratings results so far, with this week’s launch of sports betting show “Money Talks” drawing small numbers. Nielsen estimates that Tuesday’s...
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