Fates & Fortunes
F&F Round-Up: March 23-29, 2010
Last reminder: nominations for B&C/Multichannel’s Next Wave of Leaders are due Tuesday, March 30 at noon ET. Send your noms in today to bncletters@nbmedia.com! As always, you can follow Fates on Twitter @BCFates or me personally @PaigeA, although depending on workload and computer health I’m not always as twittery as I should be. Forward fates to me at BCFates@gmail.com or at pal ...... Read More
Comments (0)Fates & Fortunes Round-Up: March 16-23, 2010
Nominations are now open for B&C’s 2010 Next Wave of Leaders, our annual compilation of industry rising stars. We’re looking for people who are young, innovative and on the way up. Send suggestions to bncletters@nbmedia.com by March 30 at noon ET. As always, you can follow Fates on Twitter @BCFates or me personally @PaigeA, although depending on workload and computer health I ...... Read More
Comments (0)Peace in at Trifecta
Kristin Peace has been named senior vice president of creative affairs at Trifecta Entertainment. In her new role, she’ll lead Trifecta’s efforts to develop original programming. Trifecta was founded in late 2005 by former MGM execs Shelley Brown, Hank Cohen, Michael Daraio and Scott Spungin. Since then, it’s distributed such off-net and off-cable series as The Hills, Punk ...... Read More
Comments (0)Fates & Fortunes Round-Up: March 1-15, 2010
We’re back just in time for March Madness! Sorry for the interruption in F&F service; people much smarter than I were making essential technological changes behind the scenes. I’m playing catch-up with the round-ups so if some of this news seems old to you it’s because it is. But there’s plenty of new stuff in there too. As always, you can follow Fates on Twitter @B ...... Read More
Comments (0)Fates & Fortunes Round-Up: Feb. 15 – Feb. 22, 2010
With the moguls, the half-pipe and men’s figure skating all complete, my Olympics-watching has waned, although I have been trying to translate what I’ve been seeing to my skiing and so far not good at all. Denver’s NBC affiliate, KUSA (shameless local plug), did a piece on how to not feel bad about yourself for not being an Olympic athlete. I’m pretty sure they were di ...... Read More
Comments (0)Fates & Fortunes Round-Up: Feb. 8 – Feb. 15, 2010
In my house right now, it’s Olympics 24/7. Who cares if NBC is losing $250 million or if there’s no snow in Vancouver? I literally cannot get enough – I watched all four hours of the opening ceremonies, last night’s pairs figure skating and today I’ve got snowboard cross qualifying runs on with the sound down. I only wish the freestyle skiing competition went on ...... Read More
Comments (0)Van Natta out at MySpace
After just eight months, Owen Van Natta is stepping down as CEO of News Corp.’s MySpace. He’ll be replaced by newly-elevated co-presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, who will each report to Jon Miller, chairman and CEO of News Corp.’s digital media. Jones, who worked with Miller at AOL, and Hirschhorn, formerly president of Sling Media, previously were the company’ ...... Read More
Comments (0)Probst is the real Survivor
Survivor’s Jeff Probst has re-signed as the show’s host and executive producer through the 21st and 22nd installments, taking him through one more year, CBS said today (Tuesday, Feb. 9). In the past, Probst has made a longer commitment to the show, agreeing to four more cycles over two years, according to Entertainment Weekly. Don’t read too much into that, Probst tells the ma ...... Read More
Comments (0)Fates & Fortunes Round-Up: Jan. 25 - Feb. 8, 201
Events I’m looking forward to this week: Ellen finally joins American Idol, if only she had been there for the Pants on the Ground segment; more more more Lost; and a nostalgic return to Survivor with Heroes v. Villains. Go Boston Rob! Show Russell who’s boss! Yeah, I watch way too much TV, but as I love to say: it’s my job. As always, you can follow Fates on Twitter @BCFates ...... Read More
Comments (0)We're not out of the woods yet
Two layoff announcements hit our industry today, reminding us that while it may feel like the economy is on the mend, people still are losing their jobs. To these unlucky folks, any economic recovery just got put a lot further off. News began trickling out over the weekend that CBS News had begun a new round of layoffs, which will affect less than 7% of the news division, including some staffers a ...... Read More
Comments (0)Fates & Fortunes Round-Up: Jan. 19-24, 2010
Having spent most of this week at the NATPE convention in Las Vegas, I’m playing a little F&F catch-up. Key announcements include Neil Smit named president of Comcast Cable, and Nick Brien named CEO of Interpublic Group’s McCann Worldgroup. As always, you can follow Fates on Twitter @BCFates or me personally @PaigeA – most of my tweets are TV-related. This week, I’m ...... Read More
Comments (0)And now for something completely different: a little good economic news
In contrast to yesterday’s blog on the continued dearth of jobs in our economy, the Bureau of Economic Analysis today said that it expects Q4 2009 real gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 5.7%, the biggest increase since Q3 2003. That improvement is largely due to private companies rebuilding their inventories, contributing nearly 3.4% to that GDP change, reports NPR’s Planet Mon ...... Read More
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