Fox Television Stations CEO Jack Abernethy expanded on the strategic plan for New Fox to focus on live broadcast and repeated his view that in the digital age there should be no limits on station ownership.
“We’re just building on what’s left behind,” he said of the plan for 21st Century Fox’s station, broadcast network and Fox News assets once the rest of the company is acquired by Disney in the coming weeks.
Abernethy made the remarks during on a panel featuring three other top executives in local TV during TV 2020, a conference at the Nab Show New York. “The basis of it,” he said of the strategy, “is that live viewing is still the best opportunity for advertisers. people watch the commercials. It creates an opportunity for distribution. In many cases with news, it’s cost-controlled. Those ratings have held up pretty well as some of the entertainment properties have dropped.
“We’re just building on what’s left behind,” he said of the plan for 21st Century Fox’s station, broadcast network and Fox News assets once the rest of the company is acquired by Disney in the coming weeks.
Abernethy made the remarks during on a panel featuring three other top executives in local TV during TV 2020, a conference at the Nab Show New York. “The basis of it,” he said of the strategy, “is that live viewing is still the best opportunity for advertisers. people watch the commercials. It creates an opportunity for distribution. In many cases with news, it’s cost-controlled. Those ratings have held up pretty well as some of the entertainment properties have dropped.
- 10/17/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The One Memory of Flora Banks (Philomel, May 2) by Emily Barr
Agency: Curtis Brown
This Memento-meets-John Green story about a teenage girl whose recovery from amnesia might hinge on the one thing she remembers — a boy's kiss — already is the best-selling Ya debut of the year in the U.K. and on many summer beach read lists.
Warcross (G.P. Putnam's Sons, September) by Marie Lu
Agency: UTA
The best-selling Ya author behind the Legend and Young Elite series (both of which have been picked up for film adaptations) centers her latest duology on...
Agency: Curtis Brown
This Memento-meets-John Green story about a teenage girl whose recovery from amnesia might hinge on the one thing she remembers — a boy's kiss — already is the best-selling Ya debut of the year in the U.K. and on many summer beach read lists.
Warcross (G.P. Putnam's Sons, September) by Marie Lu
Agency: UTA
The best-selling Ya author behind the Legend and Young Elite series (both of which have been picked up for film adaptations) centers her latest duology on...
- 5/10/2017
- by Andy Lewis,Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It was the summer of 1987, when Patrick Swayze was a pin-up and no one imagined dance shows would be on prime-time TV. On the 25th anniversary of the film's release, do you still have hungry eyes for it?
It was 25 years ago this week that Dirty Dancing's Johnny Castle strutted his way into moviegoers' hearts. Patrick Swayze's performance as the dancer who takes the infatuated Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) under his wing secured his status as one of the most lusted-after pin-ups of the 1980s.
Thanks to a combination of Swayze and Grey's leading roles, a great supporting cast, 1960s nostalgia, that soundtrack and Eleanor Bergstein's deft screenwriting, the film was a huge box-office hit, earning back more than 35 times its paltry budget of $6m.
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The soundtrack may have won numerous awards, but the film itself has never been a critical darling.
It was 25 years ago this week that Dirty Dancing's Johnny Castle strutted his way into moviegoers' hearts. Patrick Swayze's performance as the dancer who takes the infatuated Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) under his wing secured his status as one of the most lusted-after pin-ups of the 1980s.
Thanks to a combination of Swayze and Grey's leading roles, a great supporting cast, 1960s nostalgia, that soundtrack and Eleanor Bergstein's deft screenwriting, the film was a huge box-office hit, earning back more than 35 times its paltry budget of $6m.
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The soundtrack may have won numerous awards, but the film itself has never been a critical darling.
- 8/24/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Cinematic fairytales now come with a postmodern wink as standard. But a return to Disney innocence might be hard, writes Emily Barr – fairytales were never innocent to start with
Here is a one-question quiz for you. An animation of a Grimm fairytale is due to hit our screens in a fortnight. Do you think that Tangled is a straightforward, retelling of the brothers Grimm's version of Rapunzel? Or might it be a wildly postmodern, turning-convention-on-its-head rollercoaster ride with a kickass heroine, a wisecracking dude of a hero, and a crone who is scared of ageing, in place of the "wicked enchantress"?
Yes, gather round, children, and sit comfortably, for it is postmodern fairytale time once again. The smashing of storytelling convention is so normal that it has become a convention all of its own. Take a familiar story. Mix it up a bit and wink knowingly at the audience over the characters' shoulders.
Here is a one-question quiz for you. An animation of a Grimm fairytale is due to hit our screens in a fortnight. Do you think that Tangled is a straightforward, retelling of the brothers Grimm's version of Rapunzel? Or might it be a wildly postmodern, turning-convention-on-its-head rollercoaster ride with a kickass heroine, a wisecracking dude of a hero, and a crone who is scared of ageing, in place of the "wicked enchantress"?
Yes, gather round, children, and sit comfortably, for it is postmodern fairytale time once again. The smashing of storytelling convention is so normal that it has become a convention all of its own. Take a familiar story. Mix it up a bit and wink knowingly at the audience over the characters' shoulders.
- 1/14/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Next year, life as we know it will end. Oprah Winfrey will be ending her successful show.
Oprah’s program grew out of her stint as host of A.M. Chicago. The local program was so successful that after two and one-half years it went national to the other ABC-owned stations, and to general syndication. Now that Oprah’s sailing off into the fog, her host station Wls-dt has decided what to do with the valuable time slot between Good Morning America and The View. They’re going to do a live, local morning news show.
No big deal, right? Lots of teevee stations have news shows following the endless network morning “news” show. But this one has a difference. This one has a live audience.
Just like Howard Beale, central character of the movie Network.
Like all of the better news shows, this new thing will be “local and fun,...
Oprah’s program grew out of her stint as host of A.M. Chicago. The local program was so successful that after two and one-half years it went national to the other ABC-owned stations, and to general syndication. Now that Oprah’s sailing off into the fog, her host station Wls-dt has decided what to do with the valuable time slot between Good Morning America and The View. They’re going to do a live, local morning news show.
No big deal, right? Lots of teevee stations have news shows following the endless network morning “news” show. But this one has a difference. This one has a live audience.
Just like Howard Beale, central character of the movie Network.
Like all of the better news shows, this new thing will be “local and fun,...
- 7/20/2010
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
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