- Fates & Fortunes
Broadcast TV James Ansin , director, marketing, WSVN Miami, named VP/station manager. At WBBM Chicago: Joey Porcelli , Cleveland, local sales manager, WOIO Shaker Heights, Ohio/WUAB Lorain, Ohio, joins as local sales manager; Gina Labanco , VP/client supervisor, Zenith Media, Chicago, joins as account executive; Shawn Adams , local sales ......
- This Just In
Ailes Hedges on Timing For Fox Business Launch New York — Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes may be hedging his bets about the timing of a proposed Fox business-news channel launch. According to published reports, Ailes, speaking at a Newhouse School media breakfast here Thursday, said he ......
- Snapshots of the Bigs
USA Network/Sci Fi Parent: Universal Television (this week to become part of NBC) Top Shows: USA: The Dead Zone , Monk , Touching Evil Sci-Fi: Stargate SG-1, movies Key Ad Sales Personnel: Jeff Lucas, president of ad sales, Universal Television Group; Michael Tedone, executive vice president, ad sales; Kevin Macauliffe, ......
- ON-AIR Women
Doris Burke SCENE NOW : If you're espying men or women taking it to the tin on either the collegiate or professional level, you want Burke on the beat, analyzing the action. Burke has been working for ESPN since 1991, CBS Sports since 1998 and Madison Square Garden Network the ......
- Programming Briefs
Queer Eye' Set For Bravo Return Nov. 18 Burbank, Calif.— The second half of the first season of Bravo's hit personal-makeover series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy will bow on Nov. 18. The show, which became a cultural cynosure this past summer, will return with eight new installments. The ......
- People
A&E A&E Network has named Scott Vila vice president, original drama programming. He had helped launch and head up production company The Firm, where he had produced The Simple Life for Fox. CTA of Md./Del./DC The Cable Telecommunciations Association of Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia has named its ......
- Two Cents
"But for all the event's humanity, Reagan's death has put news executives in a couple of uncomfortable double binds: covering a huge story without wringing every bit of public interest out of it, and serving the human function of honoring Reagan while satisfying the journalistic demand to analyze his presidency." ......