en-us http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437.html?nid=4158 Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use July 19, 2008 http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/40030004.html?nid=4158 I’m not sure if Mad Men executive producer Matt Weiner was tongue-in-cheek joking or not when he asked TV critics touring the show’s se... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1800029780.html?nid=4158 Beverly Hills, Calif.—After four long and busy days here in Beverly Hills, cable’s portion of the Television Critics Association is wra... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/610029461.html?nid=4158 TV writers—yours truly included—return to the Left Coast this week for the first Television Critics Association tour in a year where ca... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/920028892.html?nid=4158 Note to Google guys: Do your homework before addressing an auditorium that’s packed with advertising-research executives. There were several... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1280028528.html?nid=4158 Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications are lining up the management team for the daytime diva’s new cable network, which will debut in th... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1990027599.html?nid=4158 I spent Tuesday morning literally in the heart of Times Square, on the island between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, alongside a 10-foot tall slice o... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/990026699.html?nid=4158 I should have been a lawyer, working for Charlie Ergen and billing by the hour. I’d never have to worry about my credit cards bills or r... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1450025745.html?nid=4158 Comcast CEO Brian Roberts must be proud. One of his networks, G4, appears poised to reach a new low in term of taste in programming with its new s... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1900024990.html?nid=4158 You’ve got to hand it to Lifetime and Project Runway producer Harvey Weinstein, for pure chutzpah, moxie, fearlessness, boldness, pluck, cojo... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1130023913.html?nid=4158 In May, most of the cable industry will be in New Orleans for The Cable Show, presumably pouring dollars into local coffers. The Big Easy still ver... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1670023567.html?nid=4158 Which is it Charlie, an HDTV delay or no delay? Early this week Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network told the Securities and Exchange Commission t... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/560021656.html?nid=4158 Who won? That’s the question media writers, assorted bloggers and more traditional print pundits are weighing in on today now that it looks ... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1450021345.html?nid=4158 Hell must have frozen over, the world must be about to end, it has to be a blue moon -- I’m actually writing about sports. Even I have to put... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/890020889.html?nid=4158 For those of us who love our awards shows -- and nuts like me who even missed the cancelled Golden Globes -- the Screen Actors Guild ceremony last ... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/770019277.html?nid=4158 News of Fred Dressler’s death on Christmas Eve struck home in a very personal way for me. My family and I spent a good portion of Monday afte... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/290017429.html?nid=4158 Unfortunately for the nation’s media titans, striking TV writers have a lot of free time on their hands now. And the scribes are using that t... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/100016810.html?nid=4158 People keep asking me what I think about the Writers Guild strike, which will kick off Monday, and I’m quite conflicted. As a reporter cover... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1760015576.html?nid=4158 Back in the day, the day being 2000, I was writing stories about the coming launch of Oxgyen. Naysayers abounded, with skeptics – including m... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1140015314.html?nid=4158 This admission may cut some cable-network marketers to the quick, but I usually flee my living room when promos for coming TV shows hit the air. I ... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1430014543.html?nid=4158 It’s all over but the shouting for the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, and it is time now, literally, for Monday-morning quarterbacking, plenty o... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1780013778.html?nid=4158 CEOs who don’t act like CEOs have always won my admiration. I like an executive who eschews having a bland persona, a maverick who packs some... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/750013075.html?nid=4158 Independent networks are moving closer to extinction, part of the nation’s continuing consolidation craze, much to my chagrin. It’s fa... http://www.multichannel.com/blog/370000437/post/1710012971.html?nid=4158 It looks official: The two DBS upstarts are now the nation’s second and third largest pay-TV providers. DirecTV for some time now has been No...