One of the things NBC promised to do with its coverage of the 1996 Olympic Games was to present fewer ads per hour--a 10 percent reduction from its Summer Games...
With last week's launch of MSNBC, the all-news cable network from Microsoft and NBC, CNN expects to suffer some audience erosion, but it plans on fighting back, according to CNN...
Hurricane Bertha shattered the plans of thousands of travelers within the last two weeks, emptying seaside resorts and causing confusion on the roads and at airports. Bertha hit parts of...
You're a dues-paying member of the cable generation. You get 30 channels, 50 channels, 80 channels, and more are coming all the time. There's just one wrinkle: According to A.C....
Don't look for Downtown Julie Brown to spill any hot industry secrets, even off the record. "That's not my bag," says the bubbly host of E! Entertainment's "The Gossip Show,"...
MTV is hoping to make music at apparel store cash registers with a new line of fitness activewear based on its popular dance show. The popular music-video channel clinched a...
She may be a soap star, but Vanessa Marcil didn't want to make her big-screen debut wearing silky lingerie. Instead, the "General Hospital" star proposed that her character sport pigtails...
Even by the strange-bedfellows standards of 1990s media, Christiane Amanpour's deal with both CNN and CBS News is extraordinary. Yes, "60 Minutes" anchor Mike Wallace plays host to "The 20th...
Most tourists can't see beyond the pleasure boats, restaurants and chic boutiques when gazing at Baltimore's Inner Harbor today. But using historical insight, tour guide Thomas Saunders conjures up images...
It seems that America's viewers really want "America's Most Wanted" and that Fox may be listening to them. The recent cancellation of the long-running Fox series, which profiles on-the-lam criminals...