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January 4, 2005

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.

   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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