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New York's Hiscock & Barclay has formed a sports and entertainment practice headed by partners Thomas Mandelbaum and Robert Lanza. Mandelbaum joins the firm from the recently disbanded Dreier, LLC.
Carlos Williams has been promoted to Senior Vice President Business Affairs with Warner Horizon Television.
CBS Television Distribution (CTD) has promoted both Joseph Jerome and Amy Freisleben to SVP/Legal and Business Affairs
NBC Universal Television Group has added Laura Black Dawson as senior vp, legal affairs. Dawson comes from GE, where she was general counsel of the company's equipment services group. She will now oversee legal work on talent contracts and license agreements.
NBC Universal promotes Shelly Tremain to senior vp, legal affairs.
Michelle Vesecky and Jeff Evans have been promoted to VP, legal affairs at NBCUniversal.
Charles Steenveld has been named as President of ZOO Productions. Most recently, Charles was EVP/General Counsel for Reveille.
Susan Sheppard has been named SVP/Business and Legal Affairs with BBC Worldwide America, reporting to Michael Ross, EVP/Business Affairs and Operations.
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 | Nielsen TV Ratings: DEFINITIONS: Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing: Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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California resorts to lottery to dole out film tax credits ??!! [LA TIMES]
Demand for the state's new film tax credit program is so high that the California Film Commission will use a lottery system next month to select which applicants get reviewed first.
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n an annual survey that will be released Tuesday, the accounting giant projects that worldwide consumer spending in filmed entertainment -- a category that includes how much consumers spend at the box office, on home video rentals and purchases and on movie downloads -- will increase at a compound annual rate of 4% to $102 billion worldwide in 2013 from $83.9 billion in 2008.
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A man that the BBC and NBC stole his concept for "The Great American Road Trip," and the Travel Channel's online submission solicitations amounted to a racketeering scheme for unpaid labor. Using his company name 5 Plus 7 Inc., Christopher Cardillo claims he submitted his idea in March 2008 for a show that follows "a family of four ... as they drive from NYC to the tip of South America in a Winnebago."
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In theory, producing an unscripted television show should be cheap. After all, producers don't typically have to open their checkbooks to high-priced acting and writing talent. But reality TV can get extremely expensive thanks in part to the legal costs and insurance premiums that producers must pony up. Here's a look at five things that make reality TV producers very nervous.
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