Brandon Tartikoff Awards Honor TV’s Best
NATPE’s annual awards went to Byron Allen, Mara Brock Akil, Robert Greenblatt, Rita Moreno, Betty White and Henry Winkler.
Syndicators Urged To Create More Shows
Buoyed by the liveliest NATPE conference in about three years, a panel of top programming executives maintained that syndication must find ways to develop more shows with testing, partnerships, new financial models and multiplatform sales key to boosting development cost effectively.
Abernethy: Stations Need To Get With 3.0
Fox stations chief Jack Abernethy used NATPE to stress the importance of the new tech. Its rollout and the services it enables, he said, is being held back by broadcasters’ short-term thinking and their inability to work with each other and to grasp the technology’s non-TV potential.
Four months into their run as Co-Chairmen of NBC Entertainment, where they replaced Bob Greenblatt, George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy offered their first public comments about their roles and the TV landscape during a keynote session at NATPE.
Recipients were announced at a special luncheon ceremony hosted by Kellie Pickler and Ben Aaron during the annual NATPE conference.
Wall Street’s Take On TV’s Future
Among a NATPE panel’s predictions: four global mega-companies, digital’s growing presence and cable’s declining influence, news and sports as key to traditional media’s survival.
Exclusives
‘Kelly Clarkson Show’ Tops 80% Of The U.S.
The new syndicated daytime show from NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution will debut this fall on NBC O&Os plus stations from Scripps, Hearst, Meredith, Sinclair, Gray, Hubbard, Cox, Tegna, Nexstar, Capital, Dispatch, Graham Media, Block, Watermen, Weigel, Quincy, Bahakel and Bonneville.
CBS Stations Add ‘Personal Injury Court’
Multiple CBS-owned stations are adding the new offering from MGM, including WLNY New York, WPSG Philadelphia, WUPA Atlanta, as well as CBS-owned stations in San Francisco, Tampa and Seattle.
‘25 Words Or Less’ Tops 75% Clearance
Distributed by Twentieth Television, the new game show with Meredith Vieira, is slotted for debut this fall in 125 markets so far.
In addition to the previously announced ABC Owned Television Stations Group and Hearst Television stations, the show has been licensed to stations from broadcast groups for fall, including Cox, Sinclair, Scripps, Meredith, Tribune, Gray and Nexstar.
Before accepting NATPE’s Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, Greenblatt talks about his impact at the network, his memories of Tartikoff and the upcoming live TV musical Hair.
A+E Networks is teaming with Los Angeles-based PPI Releasing for the U.S. syndication launch of its Emmy-winning reality series Intervention. One-hundred-seventy-five episodes of the series will be launched into syndication at NATPE in Miami for the U.S. 2019-20 broadcast season.
PPI Offering Crime Fighting Duo At NATPE
Big Doings At NATPE: Clarkson, Hall, Vieira, Robbins
The presence of several new shows and their talent at NATPE next week should make for a livelier convention and reassure broadcasters about the health of syndication, one of the cornerstones of their business.
The Drama features outspoken experts who use humor to help viewers solve problems and Personal Injury Court with Judge Gino Brogdon will be shown at NATPE 2019.
Byron Allen, Mara Brock Akil, Robert Greenblatt, Rita Moreno, Betty White and Henry Winkler will be feted at an awards gala set to take place during NATPE Miami 2019 on Jan. 23.
George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy will make their first public speaking appearance since being named co-chairs of NBC Entertainment. YouTube’s Susanne Daniels, Discovery’s Kathleen Finch, and UTA’s Brett Hansen have joined the NATPE board in advance of the annual conference in Miami in January.
