The Media Drop

Just posted my writeup of the series finale to The Sopranos over at TV Squad. Have your fun over there!

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By now most of you have heard what the networks are going to be doing with their shows for next season, and I wanted to chime in on one thing I thought was amusing, regarding CBS’ decision to ditch post-nuke drama Jericho. Check out this post, where one blogger tells CBS what it can do.
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Just one day after his show was pulled from MSNBC, Don Imus was just fired by CBS for his racially insensitive remarks towards the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
Imus’ show, which was nationally syndicated, was run out of WFAN in New York, and had been broadcasting out of MSNBC / CNBC’s studios in recent […]

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Just caught this story about how MSNBC has ditched the simulcast of Don Imus’ show, based out of WFAN in New York, after the host made racially inappropriate comments about the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team. Obviously the network was going to make a decision based on the public outcry it has been hit with, but […]

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Since late this afternoon I’ve been checking out TV Guide’s upcoming “Project Stingray,” which some of you might have heard about of late. The gist is that “Stingray” is TV Guide’s effort to provide a video search on the Internet, but with much more of a “legit” feel than what the search engines on sites […]

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If you haven’t seen the crying girl, Ashley Ferl, then you’ve probably been under a rock since 9pm on Tuesday night. I, for one, flew home from California with her sitting just across from me last night. Turns out she and her family were on their way to New York City to go on NBC’s […]

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After taking a pay cut during 2006, CBS Corp’s Sumner Redstone has taken another one, linking even more of his pay to how the company does.

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For a few weeks now, I’ve been bouncing around the idea about how CBS and NBC have both made pretty big names for themselves with one type of programming or another, but ABC doesn’t exactly “stand for” anything, or at least have something to lean on. The theory is like this:’

CBS has its CSI set […]

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NBC, in an effort to hold off hatred of its network for the fact that it will not show any more episodes of its hit show Heroes until April 23, wisely chose tonight to offer a glimpse into Spider-Man 3, which hits theatres this summer. Clicking here will take you to 7 minutes of “exclusive” […]

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In Thursday’s New York Times, Bill Carter and Jacques Steinberg report that NBC may be replacing the executive producer for the network’s “Nightly News with Brian Williams” program, John Reiss, “as early as today,” according to their sources.

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