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Marguerite Pacacha has advanced to EVP/Business Affairs and Legal with Paramount Home Entertainment
David Anderman has been named General Counsel for Lucasfilm
World Wrestling Entertainment has named Jared Bartie as its new executive vp and general counsel.
Michael Donaldson's Beverly Hills law firm will now be known as Donaldson & Callif after Lisa Callif becomes a named partner
Columbia Pictures has named Michael Marshall as its new senior vice president of business affairs
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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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 Lifetime Seeks to Unfreeze 'Project Runway' [TVWeek}
Lifetime filed a new lawsuit in federal court as it seeks to unfreeze “Project Runway,” a series it acquired but is now enjoined from airing by a state court order.
Read more... |  WGA Files for Arbitration, Claims Producers Aren’t Paying New-Media Residuals
The Writers Guild of America is filing arbitration against the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers for allegedly failing to comply with the new contract negotiated out of the 100-day strike that shut down Hollywood during the winter of 2007-08...At the heart of the dispute is new-media residuals, which was what originally sent the WGA to the picket lines in January. The WGA said members of the AMPTP have failed to pay residuals for programming sold through electronic downloads, such as through the Apple iTunes store, as well as streaming television shows on the Internet.
Read more... |  RELATIVITY SUES CITIGROUP OVER FINANCING [VARIERTY]
The legal fight is the latest byproduct of a worsening financial picture both globally and in Hollywood. The Dow fell for a third straight day, shedding 411 points. Citigroup is at the eye of the storm in the media and entertainment sector, which is one reason its shares dropped nearly 11% to $9.64, their lowest level in 13 years.
Read more... |  'Flip This House' Creator Wins $4 Million[LA TIMES]
Richard C. Davis had sued A & E Networks, claiming that executives at the cable channel reneged on their promise to pay him half the revenue produced by the program.
Read more... |  Study: Happy people watch less TV, have more sex [TV By The Numbers]
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