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| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Owner | Comcast (under Comcast Entertainment Group) |
E! Entertainment Television, or more simply referred to as E!, is an American basic cable and satellite television network; the network has been wholly owned by Comcast since November 2006. As its name implies, it features programming relating to Hollywood and the entertainment world, though its programming has expanded to include reality series, feature films and some series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.
History
E! Entertainment Television was founded by Larry Namer and Alan Mruvka.[1][2]
Controlling ownership was originally held by six cable companies, HBO, Warner Brothers, and various founding shareholders. In 1989, after Time-Life bought Warner Brothers to fend off a takeover bid by Paramount, the new Time-Warner company held four of the eight major ownership positions and took over management control of Movietime and renamed the network E! Entertainment Television. In 1997, Comcast, one of the minority partners, teamed up with The Walt Disney Company to buy the channel after Time-Warner had exercised their put agreement. In November 2006, Comcast acquired Disney’s 39.5% share of E! for $1.23 billion to gain full ownership of the network as part of a broader programming carriage agreement between Disney/ABC and Comcast.
E! has an audience reach of 88 million cable and satellite viewers in the U.S. and 600 million homes internationally. E!’s sister networks are Style Network and G4, along with Comcast’s sports network Versus and Golf Channel. In the case of Versus, E! staff produce that network’s Sports Soup, while the Orlando-based Golf Channel features no crossovers with E! at all due to incompatible audiences and operations.
Programming
News
E! is one of the only U.S. general-entertainment cable channels that broadcasts a daily news program; its flagship entertainment news program is E! News, which debuted on September 1, 1991. The weekdaily program (which also has an hour-long weekend edition) features stories and gossip about celebrities, and the film, music and television industry, and has been broadcast under various formats since its launch even being aired live for a time in the mid-2000s. First hosted by Dagny Hultgreen, it has been hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic since 2006.
E! News was the only entertainment news show on the channel for much of its history, until 2006 when the channel launched The Daily 10, hosted by Sal Masekela and Catt Sadler (Debbie Matenopoulos also co-hosted from the show's inception until 2008); the series was cancelled in September 2010 after E! announced that the weekday editions of E! News would be expanded to one hour starting on October 25, 2010[3], and in the midst of controversy over a joke by Loveline co-host Mike Catherwood, who filled in for Masekela on the show frequently during 2010, that openly gay singer and ex-American Idol contestant Adam Lambert would enjoy being in jail with all men, during a story on the September 17, 2010 edition of The Daily 10 on an altercation Lambert allegedly had with a paparazzi.
Outside of E! News telecasts, the channel runs an E! News-branded ticker displaying entertainment news headlines each half-hour during regular programming (except during the channel's early morning infomercial block), which is updated daily; fast-breaking entertainment headlines (e.g., celebrity arrest or death) may also be displayed on a ticker, during any program when warranted.
Original programming
E! is known for its live red carpet pre-shows for the industry's three prominent award shows, the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards, famous for its fashion critiques by Joan Rivers; Rivers has also hosted post-awards specials titled Fashion Police, which became a regular weekly series in September 2010. E! also airs one awards show as it broadcasts the Creative Arts Emmy Awards the Friday prior to the Primetime Emmys, which is aired prerecorded and atypical for an awards show, is not aired in primetime. The network also produces a decent amount of documentary and biographical series, most notably E! True Hollywood Story; many of E!'s original specials are entertainment-related ranging from light fare such as 25 Cutest Child Stars All Grown Up to serious fare such as 15 Most Unforgettable Hollwood Tragedies. It also produces specials centering on investigative and crime stories including E! Investigates, which features topical investigative reports on subjects ranging from child prostitution to teenage pregnancy.
The network has become known in recent years for its reality programs, its most popular series as of 2010 is Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which has spawned a spinoff Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami; other reality programs that have aired on E! in recent years include The Anna Nicole Show, Sunset Tan, Gastineau Girls, The Girls Next Door (which itself has spawned two spinoffs Holly's World and Kendra) and most recently The Spin Crowd. E! also currently airs two comedy programs: the late night talk show Chelsea Lately, hosted by comedienne Chelsea Handler, and The Soup (based on the popular 1991-2002 E! series Talk Soup), featuring clips of the previous week's TV shows with humorous commentary delivered by the host, actor/comedian Joel McHale.
Uncharacteristic for any television network, E! commonly airs the full credits of the current program at the beginning of the show, instead of at the end of the program; the copyright tags of some shows are also shown in a similar manner, E! News in particular displays the copyright tag at the beginning of each broadcast; this may confuse some viewers who may think that the program is ending when it has actually started, movies airing on E! feature the end credits at the end of the film as normal.
Acquired programming
Over the years, E! has occasionally aired some acquired programming including reruns of Alice and the British series Absolutely Fabulous and edited 60-minute versions of Saturday Night Live, though fewer of these programs air currently; the only programming airing on E! presently that is not produced by the channel are feature films broadcast under the banner "Movies We Love", that commonly air in weekend daytime and evening timeslots, and sometimes in weekday daytime timeslots and holidays.
E! HD
The network launched their HD simulcast on December 8, 2008, like the rest of E!'s sister lifestyle and sports networks, in 1080i format. Currently only some filmed content and limited series are carried in high definition.
E! Online
E! Online is the online arm of E!, featuring live updates on Hollywood. Kristin Dos Santos runs the 'Watch with Kristin' blog, which features spoilers, scoops and exclusives on TV shows. While other columnists include Ted Casablanca, who is in charge of breaking the latest celebrity news and Marc Malkin.
See also
- List of DirecTV channels
- List of Dish Network channels
- ReelzChannel (has same concept as original Movie Time)
- E!, a defunct Canadian broadcast television system owned by Canwest previously called CH.
References
- ^ Slide, Anthony (1991). The television industry: a historical dictionary (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Press. p. 94. ISBN 0313256349. OCLC 9780313256349.
{{cite book}}: Check|oclc=value (help) - ^ Dougherty, Philip H. (July 30, 1987). "Advertising; Promoting Movies Via Cable". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ http://www.multichannel.com/article/457412-E_Expands_Weeknight_Newscast_To_One_Hour.php
^ a b Slide, Anthony (1991). The television industry: a historical dictionary (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Press. pp. 94. ISBN 0313256349. OCLC 9780313256349.
(1) "Alan Mruvka Credits". hollywood.com. Retrieved 2009-06-24. (2) a b c d Dougherty, Philip H. (July 30, 1987). "Advertising; Promoting Movies Via Cable". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-06-24. (3) "Performing Arts". Television/Radio Age (Television Editorial Corp.) 34: page 35. 1987. ISSN 0040-277X. (4) Fries, Amy (2009). Daydreams at Work: Wake Up Your Creative Powers. Capital Books. pp. 103, 104. ISBN 1933102691. OCLC 9781933102696. (5) Box Office Magazine, July 1990
External links
- Wikinews interview with Michael Musto about the art of celebrity journalism
- Official website
- E! Online International Official Site
- E! – UK TV Listings and Schedules
- E! – Latin America Official Site (In Spanish)
- E! Career Opportunities listed on EntertainmentCareers.Net
