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Mike
Wallace and CBS producer Robert Anderson have been subpoenaed in the trial of Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth. Scrushy goes on trial
this week on a 58-count fraud indictment. He appeared on "60 Minutes" in October 2003 to discuss fraud
allegations, and he wants Wallace and Anderson to discuss the
segment. The two have asked U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre
to throw out the subpoena, citing their First Amendment rights and
claiming they don't have anything to add to the case. Fifteen former
HealthSouth executives have already been prosecuted.
The New Year’s Eve broadcast
of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” is NBC’s sole live airing
of the show each year, and this year it proved to be one too
many. Motley Crue’s Vince
Neil got the Federal Communications Commission off to an early
start in 2005 after he dropped the F-bomb during the broadcast and
it wasn’t edited out on the East Coast. NBC officials report that
the network hasn’t received any complaints, but as Janet Jackson
proved, many people have the FCC on speed dial.
Bob
Barker has agreed to continue as host of CBS’s “The Price Is Right,” a
position he has held since 1972, despite speculation that
he was considering retiring.
Christopher
Raleigh
has
been named senior vice
president of advertising sales for GSN.
He was previously vice president of sales at Tech TV.
Keira
Alexandra
has
been promoted to vice
president and creative director at Sundance
Channel.
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Sande
Bovis has been named managing
partner and director of national broadcast at Mediaedge:cia.
Bovis was previously senior vice president and associate director of
national broadcast at Universal McCann.
Three Daily News
veterans were among newsroom staff that applied for voluntary
buyouts before Monday’s deadline. Boxing reporter Bill
Farrell (32 years), op-ed page editor Bob
Laird (28 years) and borough editor Rick
Meserole (40 years) agreed to be part of the tabloid’s
cost-cutting measures.
Eric
Wilson
has joined the fashion team in the style department at The New York
Times. He had worked for Women's Wear
Daily.
Donald
Trump has been selected America’s
most popular manager for 2004, according to more than 130 writers
and editors at Business Week.
Sara
Nelson has joined Reed Business Information as editor in chief of Publishers
Weekly magazine. She most recently served as the publishing
columnist and books editor for the New
York Post.
Joshua
Rahn has
been named vice president of integrated marketing solutions with
Univision Radio National Sales in
New York.
Skip
Dillard has
been named operations manager of Radio One's Detroit cluster. He was
most recently program director of Urban KBTB in San Francisco.
Rick
Sands has been hired as president and chief operating officer of DreamWorks SKG.
He was previously chief operating officer at Miramax.
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