Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementMeg JamesIn 1979, Sumner Redstone was trapped in a deadly fire. He fled his third-floor hotel room at Boston’s Copley Plaza by crawling out of a window, then crouching on a narrow ledge as flames seared his flesh.“The pain was excruciating but I refused to let go,” Redstone would later write.He suffered third-degree burns over 45% of his body. He endured months in the hospital, numerous skin-grafting surgeries and rehabilitation to learn to walk again. The fire didn’t change him, he would later say, but the recovery proved his grit and...…Copyright © 2020, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementMeg JamesIn 1979, Sumner Redstone was trapped in a deadly fire. He fled his third-floor hotel room at Boston’s Copley Plaza by crawling out of a window, then crouching on a narrow ledge as flames seared his flesh.“The pain was excruciating but I refused to let go,” Redstone would later write.He suffered third-degree burns over 45% of his body. He endured months in the hospital, numerous skin-grafting surgeries and rehabilitation to learn to walk again. The fire didn’t change him, he would later say, but the recovery proved his grit and...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement This year’s batch of TV pilots included some ominous names: “Triage,” “Wreckage” and “Housebroken.” Now, those show titles also describe network TV’s pilot season, which has been upended by the Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW were gearing up to employ thousands of workers in Los Angeles; Vancouver, Canada; New York and beyond when two weeks ago. AdvertisementOpportunities vanished overnight. For some, the work stoppage came just days after being hired onto a pilot, the industry term for the initial episode of a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement This year’s batch of TV pilots included some ominous names: “Triage,” “Wreckage” and “Housebroken.” Now, those show titles also describe network TV’s pilot season, which has been upended by the Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW were gearing up to employ thousands of workers in Los Angeles; Vancouver, Canada; New York and beyond when two weeks ago. AdvertisementOpportunities vanished overnight. For some, the work stoppage came just days after being hired onto a pilot, the industry term for the initial episode of a...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The shutdown of sports due to the coronavirus pandemic is propelling a historic decline in U.S. TV advertising: Sales could be down by as much as $10 billion in the first half of the year.For the record:The projection, released Monday in a new report by digital research firm EMarketer, illustrates the financial pain facing U.S. broadcasters, particularly ESPN, CBS, Turner and NBC, which rely on live sports to boost their ratings and advertising hauls.The New York firm said Monday that TV ad spending in the U.S. will decline by an...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The shutdown of sports due to the coronavirus pandemic is propelling a historic decline in U.S. TV advertising: Sales could be down by as much as $10 billion in the first half of the year.For the record:The projection, released Monday in a new report by digital research firm EMarketer, illustrates the financial pain facing U.S. broadcasters, particularly ESPN, CBS, Turner and NBC, which rely on live sports to boost their ratings and advertising hauls.The New York firm said Monday that TV ad spending in the U.S. will decline by an...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Prominent anchors Jeff Michael, Sandra Mitchell and Sharon Tay, along with meteorologist Garth Kemp, were cut from CBS TV stations in Los Angeles late Wednesday amid sweeping corporate layoffs.Michael has been co-anchor of KCBS-TV Channel 2’s premier newscasts at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. for more than three years.The Emmy Award-winning anchor joined KCBS in early 2017 after working as an anchor at rival Fox’s KTTV-Channel 11 for nearly two decades. Michael became known to L.A. TV viewers in the early 1990s as a crime reporter for KABC-TV...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Prominent anchors Jeff Michael, Sandra Mitchell and Sharon Tay, along with meteorologist Garth Kemp, were cut from CBS TV stations in Los Angeles late Wednesday amid sweeping corporate layoffs.Michael has been co-anchor of KCBS-TV Channel 2’s premier newscasts at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. for more than three years.The Emmy Award-winning anchor joined KCBS in early 2017 after working as an anchor at rival Fox’s KTTV-Channel 11 for nearly two decades. Michael became known to L.A. TV viewers in the early 1990s as a crime reporter for KABC-TV...WW…