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Just a few weeks after announcing a date change to September 13 to avoid broadcast competition with the NFL, CBS and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences have backed down on their move, opting to go with the original plan of a September 20 ceremony for the 2009 Emmy Awards. The partners cite a conflict with MTV's Video Music Awards as the reason for switching back.

"After we announced plans for September 13, MTV informed us they were locked into the same day for the Video Music Awards, with venue and sponsorship agreements in place," CBS executive vice president of specials, music, and live events Jack Sussman told Variety. "We had the flexibility to move; they didn't. It's best for the industry and the audience that these events not compete against each other."

CBS and MTV are corporate cousins of a sort; although CBS is no longer owned by Viacom, MTV's parent, both are controlled by Sumner Redstone. MORE >>

Emmys, CBS, MTV, MTV Networks, MTV Video Music Awards, Viacom, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, HBO, Comedy Central

NEWS 11.04.08 5:24 PM

Ax Falls on ABC News, Viacom, Marc Jacobs Holiday Fetes, While News Corp. Parties On

Dispatches from the great holiday party flush of 2008 continue. After word came last week that ABC News joined media groups like Hearst by dropping its annual bureau parties in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, big celebrations for Marc Jacobs and Viacom officially fell off the schedule over the past 24 hours, while the rumored cancellation of the News Corps. party proved a bit of an overreaction.

In an email from Viacom heads Philippe Dauman and Tom Dooley published by Gawker, the duo took the release of the company’s third quarter results as an opportunity to drop the holiday-party bomb. The cancellation probably won’t upset too many staffers though: In lieu of divisional or corporate celebrations, Viacom staffers—at least those who are still around after this week’s anticipated round of layoffs—get an extra two days of vacation between December 22 and January 1. MORE >>

News Corp., ABC News, Viacom, Hearst Corporation, Corporate Holiday Parties, Marc Jacobs, Rodale

NEWS 10.31.08 11:34 AM

GQ, Glamour, The Washington Post, and The New York Times Celebrate Election Night

Election night is fast approaching, and there's no shortage of viewing parties, panel discussions, and patriotic cocktails planned for the big night. Here's a smattering of some of the most notable events on deck in New York on November 4:

Glamour and GQ, along with Harvey Weinstein and Georgette Mosbacher, are throwing a private, invitation-only party produced by Wise & Company. Producers didn't divulge the location of the 350-guest event, but we hear they'll be reveling at Public House.

"We chose somewhere in Midtown to make it easily accessible for all guests. We also wanted to find a great space where everyone can be together the entire time without any areas sectioned off," said producer Dina Shapiro Wise, president of Wise & Company. "We also needed to find a space with enough screens to project coverage from various networks. We plan on showing eight different channels of coverage and needed a location that could accommodate for that," added Jennifer Peters, Glamour's director of special events.

For the bipartisan mix of New York social figures, press, and business people, the event will also feature Barack Obama and John McCain collectibles like buttons and playing cards. MORE >>

Election '08, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate Magazine, Glamour, GQ, Condé Nast, 92nd Street Y, MTV, Viacom, New York Young Republicans, Planned Parenthood

NEWS 06.20.08 4:52 PM

MTV Expected to Confirm Video Music Awards' L.A. Move Next Week

FROM LOS ANGELES It looks like MTV is indeed taking its Video Music Awards show to Los Angeles, as we previously reported, but not to the venue we originally named.

While our previous report suggested a move to the Shrine might be in the works for this year, we now hear that another venue has been selected. We also hear that the network will make a formal announcement on the decision next week, perhaps as early as Monday.

The move marks the VMAs’ first L.A. stop in a decade (the event took over the Gibson Amphitheatre in 1998). The show took over multiple areas within the Palms in Las Vegas last year. —Alesandra Dubin

MTV, MTV Video Music Awards, Viacom, MTV Networks

TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 3:03 PM

New York's Top Entertainment Industry Events 2008

Tribeca Film Festival
Photo: Courtesy of the Tribeca Film Festival

1. Television Network Upfront Week
The broadcast TV networks are notorious for keeping word of the upcoming season’s programming under wraps until late spring, when advertisers and press are primed for the big, overpitched reveal. Upfront Week draws an elaborate V.I.P.-packed crowd to the industry’s after-parties and celebrity gatherings, held each year in mid-May. MORE >>

New York's Top 100 Events, Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New York Times, League of American Theatres and Producers, American Theatre Wing, Museum of the Moving Image, College Music Journal, Paley Center for Media, Viacom, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

GUEST QUESTIONS 12.07.07 3:22 PM

MTV Staffers on Snow Globes, '80s Tunes

It's corporate holiday party time, so we're heading out into the cold to ask employees what they think about their companies' bashes. (That's the point, right?) Here's our second report of the season.

Last night was one of the biggies: MTV Networks' annual holiday party at the Hammerstein Ballroom, which arrived with the possibility of some Gawker-fueled demonstrations from freelancers over their health-insurance beef with Viacom.

As we shivered outside, the weary staffers (some slightly inebriated) from Nickelodeon, VH1, Comedy Central, and Logo voiced their thoughts whilst smoking or waiting for their rides home. Wary of corporate repercussions, nobody wanted to give a name and many were reluctant to tell us their titles, but plenty had something to say about the event. There was the usual complaining about overcrowding, but the people we talked to also offered up some opinions on the decorations, the food, and—naturally—the music:

"I liked the decor. The colors were lighter than last year, and there was sort of a theme: snow globes. There was a big snow-globe centerpiece with men and women models playing Twister inside."
—MTV employee, 30

"No matter where you go, all roads lead to MTV. This is my second party, third year working here, and everyone always talks about nothing but this party. The music is weird this year. What they should do is put a band on—that's the one thing missing this year. And the interrogating was not good; when I and someone else came outside for a cigarette, the guards accost you: 'Who are you? Where'd you come from?' Also, I think when I'm leaving later, I'm going to have the worst experience lining up waiting for all the cars to come. At least they're prepaid for us."
—Sales coordinator, MTV, 33 MORE >>

MTV, Viacom, Nickelodeon, VH1, Comedy Central, Corporate Holiday Parties

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