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Peter Tolan Takes Shots At CBS And Its Comedy ’2 Broke Girls’ During HRTS Panel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 19, 2012 @ 4:29pm PSTTags: Hollywood Radio & Television Society, HRTS

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TV coverage.

Peter Tolan delivered another R-rated hosting performance as the moderator of today’s Hollywood Radio and Television Society’s Hitmakers luncheon featuring showrunners Graham Yost (Justified), Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead) Michael Patrick King (2 Broke Girls) and Liz Meriwether (New Girl). Like Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes, Tolan started off by showing more restraint than usual but that lasted about 10 seconds. ”I decided this year to be polite … it’s pilot season, and I do have projects out there. I’m not going to randomly go after it,” he said before adding, presumably referring to the audience in general: “You’re a fucking cunt.”

Turning to Mazzara, he said, “I thought The Walking Dead was the viewership of CBS,” adding with a grin, “None of my pilots is at CBS.” READ MORE »

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HRTS Adds Three To Board Of Directors

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 18, 2012 @ 9:52am PSTTags: HRTS

ITV Studios America president and CEO Paul Buccieri, MediaLink founder Michael Kassan, and Discovery and TLC Networks president Eileen O’Neill have joined the board of directors at the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. The trio will serve the 2012-2014 term. … Read More »

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Leslie Moonves On Menu For HRTS Series

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 10:14am PDTTags: Hollywood Radio & Television Society, HRTS, Leslie Moonves

For those in attendance at the Hollywood Radio & Television Society’s network chiefs panel earlier this month, this is not new news. But for those who weren’t there: HRTS will present “A Conversation With … Leslie Moonves” on Thursday, … Read More »

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WME Partner Sean Perry Elected HRTS President

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 10, 2011 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Hollywood Radio & Television Society, HRTS, Kelly Goode, Kevin Beggs
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The Hollywood Radio & Television Society’s board of directors has elected WME partner Sean Perry as the new president of HRTS for the 2011-13 term. He will succeed Lionsgate TV president Kevin Beggs, who headed the organization for the past … Read More »

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HRTS Brings Back Broadcast Chiefs Lunch

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 13, 2010 @ 1:02pm PDTTags: Broadcast Networks, HRTS, HRTS Luncheon, HRTS Newsmaker Luncheon
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An old tradition is coming back – HRTS said today that it will hold its first luncheon with the heads of the broadcast networks in 3 years. HRTS president Kevin Beggs said that he has an agreement in principle with the 5 broadcast nets for the October event. Once a … Read More »

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TV Broadcast vs Cable: Enough Ad Dollars?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday June 23, 2010 @ 7:27pm PDTTags: Conan O'Brien TBS, Fox, Hollywood Radio and Television Society, HRTS, HRTS Newsmaker Luncheon, Late Night TV, NBC, Networks, Oprah Winfrey Cable TV, TV, TV Broadcast vs Cable

For Deadline today, freelance journalist Diane Haithman covered the Hollywood Radio and Television Society’s Newsmaker luncheon at the Beverly Hilton:

brokenTV18What will the TV industry have left to buzz about after fallen NBC talk show host Conan O’Brien’s new 11 PM show launches in November on TBS? And the world finally finds out whether his young, hip, Twitter-happy fans will follow him from NBC to cable? Once again, NBC and Conan launched the discussion at yet another industry gathering. O’Brien’s choice to sign with TBS instead of Fox after the “fairly catastrophic” NBC debacle (as FBC’s Kevin Reilly called it) was used as a starting point for a discussion about whether cable TV represents the television industry’s sweet spot in 2010. Oprah Winfrey’s move from syndication to starting her own cable network got a mention, too, but that was announced way back in 2009 — and she’s just not as much fun to talk about as Conan.

On the panel billed as “a post-upfronts look at the business of the business”: O’Brien’s attorney Leigh Brecheen, partner and head of television at the law firm Bloom Hergott; Paul Lee, president of ABC Family; Steve Mosko, president of Sony Pictures Television; Kevin Reilly, president of Fox Broadcasting Company; Chris Silbermann, president of ICM; and Tim Spengler, president of Initiative USA.

Well, time will tell whether cable is good to Conan – but what about everybody else? The rest of the discussion revolved around whether 2010’s promising upfronts mean that traditional, scripted broadcast TV series are back on top – and whether the networks can exist in happy harmony with cable channels, online TV options and VOD. Read More »

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