The Fox network has said it will hold its upfront presentation as normal this year, and another network said Sunday it probably would as well.
Fox also emphasized at its upfront that it sold online as well as television eyeballs.
NBC, for one, has already suggested that it will scrap its upfront dog-and-pony show.
Looking to repeat that success, AMC will announce at its upfront that it has acquired another classic from that television era, "Rawhide," which starred a young Clint Eastwood.
The mass media company is hoping that its fall programming lineup could win a disproportionate share of advertising from its "upfront" commitments it is negotiating now, the analyst said.
It then became the first in the industry to support downloads with ads, it said during its Upfront presentation in May.
(Fox, part of News Corporation, is the sole English-language broadcaster that has not completed its upfront sales, but it is expected to soon).
The Robin Group analyst Frank Magdlen said that if GE renegotiates its contract, Greenbrier would be entitled to recoup its upfront costs — but it will still lose out on the future benefit of producing the railcars.
Ahead of its upfront presentation on Wednesday, it has also dropped several other series that other networks would probably have kept, like "Golden Boy" and "Vegas".
The project, which it recently bought just as construction was beginning, is so heavily subsidized by federal and local governments that Exelon expects it will be reimbursed for all its upfront money by 2015.
Perhaps CBS will comment on whether it is interested in the show at its upfront presentation on Wednesday.
