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Former FCC General Counsel, John Rogovin will now be EVP/General Counsel at Warner Bros. Entertainment, replacing John Schulman who just announced his retirement.
Dimension Films' Andrew Kramer has been upped to president of business and legal affairs for the Weinstein Co.
Julie Meldal-Johnsen has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Business Development, Granada America
She was Senior Vice President of Business Affairs, Granada America
Ivan Garel-Jones has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Business Affairs, Granada America
Crystal Morales has been promoted to Vice President, Business Affairs, Warner Bros. Television. |
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Based on a report issued by Magna Global, the prime-time landscape continues to age up. In five years the five broadcast networks, on average, have increased their median age from 46 to 49. CBS remains the oldest skewing at a current median age of 53, which is on par from one year earlier. But ABC, Fox and the CW have all aged up from the 2006-07 season, and Fox is up by a noticeable seven years since 2003-04. Take a look at the five-year track:
Prime-time Regular Series Median Age Trends (October - May)
ABC
2003-04: 45
2004-05: 45
2005-06: 46
2006-07: 48
2007-08: 49
CBS
2003-04: 53
2004-05: 52
2005-06: 52
2006-07: 53
2007-08: 53
NBC
2003-04: 46
2004-05: 48
2005-06: 49
2006-07: 49
2007-08: 48
Fox
2003-04: 36
2004-05: 38
2005-06: 39
2006-07: 42
2007-08: 43
CW (compared to an average of UPN and the WB from 2003-2006)
2003-04: 34
2004-05: 34
2005-06: 34
2006-07: 32
2007-08: 34
Source: Nielsen Media Research data |
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 Studios Sue To Stop RealDVD Software [DHD]
The nation’s top movie companies filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to stop RealNetworks Inc. from distributing the company’s RealDVD software which allows movies to be copied illegally. In their complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order, the studios said that RealNetworks’ RealDVD violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) because its software illegally bypasses the copyright protection built into DVDs that protect movies against theft.
Read more... |  Analyst: Viacom should sell its Paramount Pictures movie studio to Time Warner [NYP]
Viacom should sell its Paramount Pictures movie studio to Time Warner.
At least that's what analyst agitator Richard Greenfield of Pali Capital thinks.
Selling the Brad Grey-led studio is just one of Greenfield's recommendations in a scathing new report outlining ways for the media giant to boost its wilting stock price, which is down 43 percent this year.
"Paramount has become [Viacom Chairman] Sumner Redstone's 'sports team,' in the sense that its annual cash flow drives a valuation that is well below its private-market value," Greenfield wrote.
Read more... |  YouTube named coolest online media brand
YouTube has beaten Google and Facebook to be named the coolest online media brand, according to this year's CoolBrands survey.
Google took second place behind its video-sharing site, followed by social network Facebook and Wikipedia.
Last year Facebook failed to feature in the list.
Read more... |  PROJECT RUNWAY MAY WIND UP ON NBC [NYP]
If producer Harvey Weinstein loses out in NBC Universal's lawsuit over "Project Runway's" move to Lifetime, NBC may regain control of the hit reality show. Instead of returning to Bravo, it could go instead to another NBC Universal network, most likely NBC itself.
Read more... |  U.S. Government May Take Over Battle Against Copyright Pirates [THR, ESQ]
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008. The bill would allow the Justice Department to begin treating copyright infringement as a criminal matter and would create a Cabinet-level "piracy czar."
The RIAA has sued some 30,000 individuals for piracy, but now it might not need to undergo the expense and effort
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