Congress.org - President George Bush (R) BiographyE-mail, call or write the President, Congress or say and local government based on your ZIP code. Find groups' Take Action alerts or create your own.President's Park (White House) - President's Park (White Home …The President`s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry finished its work on March 12, 1998, and… Continue reading

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Filed under: Sports, Industry, Programming

Wrestling fans can breathe a sigh of relief today: you’ll still get your Friday fix of power drives and folded chair smashing.

MyNetwork (aka “the network no one is quite sure they have on their local cable system or not”) has won the rights to air Friday Night Smackdown. The show had been on The CW (and before that UPN - remember those days?) since 1999, but the rights ran out on January 31.

Continue reading Smackdown gets a new home

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Filed under: Industry, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Cable/Satellite, Hideous Betty

Are you kidding me? In a bold new way, ABC has come up with a way to keep viewers from fast-forwarding through the commercials! Okay, it’s only in the video-on-demand universe (VOD), but it feels like what was once a convenient, fast way… Continue reading

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Filed under: Industry, OpEd, American Idol, News and Gossip

See! All you people who poo-pooed my suggestions on “How to improve the Idol” due to the ratings dip it experienced between its premiere and the voting rounds owe me an apology! Executive Vice President of Strategic Program Planning and Research Preston Beckman (do you think he puts all that on his business card?) says he wants to look at ways to improve the early rounds because of “some erosion” before they get to Hollywood week.

Now, Beckman indicated there will be no major changes to the format, because for the most part its obviously working (even though it’s down, 34.5 million viewers is still numbers any other show would kill to get), but there will be some tweaks here and they to try and keep you tuned in. What that all translates to is he’s still studying my post to determine how ideal to implement my proposed changes. It’s encouraging for the show and the say of the industry itself that network executives are starting to listen to me. The more they do, the better off the whole industry will be.

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