E!, TV Guide Get In On Globes Telecast
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Makes Announcements Event Available To All Media
By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 1/11/2008 4:36:00 PM
With telecast rights up for grabs, E! Entertainment and TV Guide Network will cover the Golden Globes Awards announcements this Sunday.
The networks jumped into the mix on Friday after a dispute between NBC, which originally had the telecast rights, and show producer Dick Clark Productions, opened the announcements up to other TV media. The full-blown show fell prey to the strike by the Writers Guild of America, as actors didn't want to cross a picket line threatened by the writers.
Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Jorge Camara, after discussions with NBC, said the group will have complete control of the Golden Globe Awards announcements, scheduled for Jan. 13 at 6 p.m.(PT) in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Under the new arrangement, there will be no restrictions placed on media outlets covering the press conference. NBC is still carrying the event.
E! officials on Friday indicated the network will televise the event and that E! Online plans to stream the awards announcements on its Web site.
TV Guide Network said it will air the event commercial-free, with its coverage led by Chris Harrison (Hollywood 411, The Bachelor) and Maria Sansone (“The 9” on Yahoo!). The pair is also hosting the service’s two-hour pre-show Countdown to the Globes, and the one-hour Globes Post-Show.
E! and TV Guide's entry to the televised proceedings emanated from license fee issues.
“NBC wanted to have an exclusive three hour broadcast special disguised as a news conference that would bar all other media, and yet was unwilling to pay a nominal license fee to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions,” Dick Clark Productions said in a statement. “The HFPA and Dick Clark Productions felt this arrangement was unfair and unacceptable and therefore opened up the event to all media.”
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