Feeding Collins titles into his television properties would be a longer-range consideration.

The board dismissed that and began concentrating on a plan to have management restructure the company itself, including spinning off the television properties.

Together, USA's various television properties reach 78 percent of the nation's households.

Anything that potentially changes the value of a television property will enter into discussions over a new contract.

But the deal will give Multimedia its biggest television property.

Others take a less benign view of Hollywood's practice of dusting off old television properties.

Together, those stations generate more than $2.2 billion in annual revenue, slightly less than half of it coming from the television properties.

The unit will start by developing television properties largely for black viewers and they move into feature films.

Since last summer, Monster has struck deals with more than 60 daily newspaper sites and 8 television properties, he said.

I wouldn't want to be remotely associated with someone who seeks definition from terrible television properties.