Nature and TV abhor a vacuum and one was quickly created with the merger that spawned the CW.

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NBC and advertisers would ideally like to have maximum momentum moving into the Olympics in order to promote them.

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'A Prairie Home Companion' has proudly had its roots in St. Paul since the inception of the show. They have scheduled road shows, yet it's important to maintain their place of operation. It's good news for the show and St. Paul.

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Comedic locations are often within families or within the manufactured families of a group of friends. It's significantly more difficult to make a sitcom that has broad sociological touch points. The same dynamic plays out on the big screen. You can have a constituency for 'Monster-in-Law' and 'Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,' but never the two shall meet.

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Advertisers are usually strictly non-partisan and believe in the big tent policy, if not in politics then in consumerism.

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Advertisers and the networks are aware of the accelerating pace of change, and that in order to remain valuable, let alone viable, the networks have to reflect the quickening pace of technology and incorporate it into their business model.

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He said. ''It's significantly more difficult to make a sitcom that has broad sociological touch points. The same dynamic plays out on the big screen. You can have a constituency for 'Monster-in-Law' and 'Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,' but never the two shall meet.

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Most marketers will stick with Sinclair long-term as long as it serves their advertising purpose, ... But most will wish they hadn't been put in the line of fire.

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As CBS recently proved with the live streaming of the NCAA tournament, content is the once and forever king. So it's entirely strategic and smart for ABC and other networks to show their best programs on multiple platforms.

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