Meeting with executives of Children's Television Workshop and Muppets creator Jim Henson, he struck a long-term deal to be the exclusive creator of life-size replicas of the Sesame Street Muppets for touring stage shows.

The deal also involved David Montgomery, chief executive of Mirror Group, and Two Flextech executives join the Scottish Television board, while Flectech committed to license more than 125 hours of drama and documentaries from Scottish Television, Within a month of the deal, the Mirror Group managed to increase its stake to 19. 93 %.

Of this group, the creators chose some to audition again for Warner Bros. Television executives, who chose the final group of a few actors to audition for NBC executives ; as they decide whether to purchase a pilot, network executives generally have ultimate authority over casting.

However, executives at Columbia TriStar Television saw Martin's performance and offered him the role of " Maurice " on the television sitcom What's Happening Now !!

Despite a generally successful tenure as Controller, Collins resigned from the BBC in October 1950, when one of the Corporation ’ s radio executives, George Barnes, was appointed as his superior – he believed that he, as Controller of Television, should not have to answer to a man whose background was in sound broadcasting.

Television historians Harry Castleman and Walter Podrazik ( 1982 ) state, " Despite all the promises of programming reform made by television executives in May, 1961, the 1962-1963 schedule turned out to be business as usual ".

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Television executives liked Daily's clean-cut looks and superb comic timing ( due to his brief role as Steve Allen's announcer / sidekick on his daily syndicated talk show in 1964 ), so by the mid-1960s he earned guest spots on sitcoms like My Mother the Car, The Farmer's Daughter, and Bewitched.

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A consortium of broadcasters and record companies led by Time Warner, Sony Television, Polygram Records and EMI Music, but notably excluding the German based Bertelsmann Music Group, saw their investment in VIVA as an antidote to the " vain posturing power of MTV Networks executives " according to Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Time Warner executives Tom McGrath and Peter Bogner assembled a group of record labels that included its very own Warner Music, EMI Music, Polygram Records and Sony Television along with Frank Otto, Apax Partners, and Austrian producers Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher of DoRo Productions.

Bob Pittman accepted Lack's idea and inaugurated the music channel as MTV: Music Television ( née The Music Channel ), in the process developing the careers of such future media executives as Mark Booth, Larry Divney, Fred Seibert, Andy Setos, and John Sykes.

* 1993: Company was started by three executives — Barry Babcock, Jerald Kent, and Howard Wood, former executives of Cencom Cable Television in St. Louis, Missouri.

Screening over 300 titles from 50 countries in 11 theatres across Hong Kong, the 33rd HKIFF reached an audience of 580, 000 people, including 4, 500 business executives who attended the Hong Kong Film and Television Market ( FILMART ).

Although initially thought by BBC executives to be unfilmable, the series was successfully produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell and went on to win a Royal Television Society award as Most Original Programme of 1981, as well as several BAFTA awards for its graphics and editing.

Other animation executives that worked at Television Animation over the years were Barbara Ferro, Sharon Morrill, Bill Gross ( former President of Jumbo Pictures, creators of Doug ), Maia Mattise, Lenora Hume.

In addition, Mitchell was named one of the most influential female executives in the media by The Hollywood Reporter and was honored as one of the first fifty women in The Museum of Television & Radio ’ s She Made It initiative.

New franchises which had no experience of owning an ITV franchise ( Mersey Television was one such example ) would have to a pass a " quality hurdle " that Granada executives actually helped the ITC adopt.

Two years ago Nick Davatzes, president and chief executive of A & E Television Networks, called his executives to a retreat, to " wallow in the mud ," as he described the exercise.

The project was initially planned for RTL Television, another German channel, but executives there were skeptical that the concept of a love story between a brother and a sister could prove successful.

He published a column (" Wrong Turn Onto Sesame Street ") challenging federally funded Public Television endowments in favor of educational comics — which, according to Capp, " didn't cost a dime in taxes and never had.

Philip Hayton and Anna Jones were the first two presenters on the set, the relaunch of which had been put back a week due to previous power disruptions at Television Centre where the channel is based.

Earlier in 1961, a Television Audience Measurement ( TAM ) showed that 75 % of available viewers ( 15 million ) tuned into Corrie and by 1964 the programme had over 20 million regular viewers, with ratings peaking on 2 December 1964, at 21. 36 million viewers.

When the infant BBC Television service was started in 1936, Rediffusion, which had supplied cable radio services since 1928, started providing " Pipe TV " to its customers who had difficulties tuning into the weak TV broadcast signal.

While much of the specification codifies work that had already been ongoing in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ( SMPTE ), the specification is important in establishing a content owner framework for the distribution and security of first-release motion picture content.

Fellini had two siblings: Riccardo ( 1921 – 1991 ), a documentary director for RAI Television, and Maria Maddalena ( m. Fabbri ; 1929 – 2002 ).

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

Television viewing spread so rapidly that, by 1987, 99 percent of Japan's households had color television sets and the average family had its set on at least five hours a day.

In March 2001 Russian Independent Television NTV interviewed a previously unknown grandson living in Novokuznetsk, Yuri Davydov, who stated that his father had told him of his lineage, but, was told to keep quiet because of the campaign against Stalin's cult of personality.

Their show grew quickly until it was carried by close to a hundred stations, with average viewers numbering over twelve million, and the Bakkers had established their own network, The PTL Television Network ( also known as PTL-The Inspirational Network ).

Because of the controversial format and content of the show, distributor MCA Television had problems selling the show to a number of stations and advertisers.

Television rights to Paramount's library, included properties owned outright, and those only for certain media, are currently held on Paramount's behalf by Trifecta Entertainment & Media ( Trifecta had inherited this library from CBS Television Distribution in 2009 ).

By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of Music Television channels like MTV, which " favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who had a strong visual appeal ".

Equity Media Holdings had been using low-power TV stations to carry RTN in various markets ; those stations were, as a result of Equity going bankrupt, sold to the religious broadcaster Daystar Television Network.

ITV introduced General Hospital, which later transferred to a prime time slot, and Scottish Television had Take the High Road, which lasted for over twenty years.

Television sets, now mass-produced in South Korea, became far less expensive ; most city people and a significant number of rural families owned or had access to a television.

In the wake of the successful Universal Studios ad hoc syndicated package Operation Prime Time, which featured first a miniseries adaptation of John Jakes ' novel The Bastard and went on to several more productions, Paramount had earlier contemplated its own television network with the Paramount Television Service.

The DuMont Television Network, which had begun experimental broadcasts before the war, launched what Newsweek called " the country's first permanent commercial television network " on August 15, 1946, connecting New York with Washington.

Until 1989, areas outside of these main cities had access to only a single commercial station, and these rural stations often formed small networks such as Prime Television.

They had two children: Helmut Walter ( 26 June 1944 – February 1945, died of meningitis ), and Susanne ( b. 1947 ), who works in London for Bloomberg Television.

Television series executive producer Marti Noxon later reflected that this story might have been produced by the studio in order to frighten Whedon into taking the reins of the project.

Since Tuesday, 26 May 2009, those bulletins have been broadcast from TC7 and N6 in Television Centre, the main studios of BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel respectively.

Since first being aired, it has been one of the most financially lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of its broadcaster ITV and its franchise Granada Television.

He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.

Premavision owns the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons ( having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros. Television ), and has licensed the rights to Classic Media of which said licensing ends in September 2012.

It has been ranked 84th in the British Film Institute list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes.

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

Id Software is the only game development company ever honored twice by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, having been given an Emmy Award in 2007 for creation of the 3D technology that underlies modern shooter computer games.

Television technology has advanced to the point that viewers ' physical movements and thoughts can be monitored through their television sets ; however, almost all non-television technology has been discontinued or destroyed.

Most preseason games are televised on Cox Sports Television and WVUE ( Channel 8 ), a station which has been owned by a consortium led by Saints owner Tom Benson since mid-2008, and, as the Fox affiliate for New Orleans, carries the majority of Saints games ; both stations also carry a heavy compliment of coach and player shows.

On June 5, she recorded the single " Hey Joe "/" Piss Factory ", featuring Television guitarist Tom Verlaine ; released on her own Mer Records label, it heralded the scene's do it yourself ( DIY ) ethic and has often been cited as the first punk rock record.

Television in the United States has long been dominated by the Big Three television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, but Fox, launched in 1986, has gained prominence and is now considered as part of the " Big Four.

Television series executive producer Marti Noxon later reflected that this story might have been produced by the studio in order to frighten Joss into taking reins of the project.

The acclaimed television drama was honored a decade later when the kinescope of the production was selected for showing at the Museum of Modern Art on February 17 – 20, 1963, as part of Television USA: Thirteen Seasons, described by MoMA Film Library curator Richard Griffith as " a grand retrospective of the best that has been done in American television.

As a child he has been portrayed by Dora Senior in the 1899 silent short King John ( 1899 ), a version of John's death scene from Shakespeare's King John, and by Rusty Livingstone in the 1984 BBC Television Shakespeare version of the play.

Several major motion pictures, most of which were recruited and assisted by the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission, have been filmed in Memphis, including Making the Grade ( 1984 ), Elvis and Me ( 1988 ), Great Balls of Fire!

The name was a parody of London Weekend Television, the independent television franchise that provided Londoners with their ITV services at weekends ; Rutland had been England's smallest county, but had recently been ' abolished ' in an administrative shake-up.