F-bombs away again on MSNBC
Joe Scarborough has joined his colleague Chris Matthews in the f-bomb hall of fame. Discussing the stylistic contrast between members of the Barack Obama...
Lifetime Networks and Shop.com create shopping site
MyLifetime.com, Lifetime Networks’ digital destination for women and Shop.com, a comparison shopping engine designed for women, announced a partnership to create a dynamic, co-branded...
DTV transition shifts into high gear
NBC’s David Gregory hosted a gathering of stakeholders who are putting the DTV transition, now less than 100 days away, into overdrive. The predominant message is familiar to television commercial viewers
MLB Network signs FiOS
Major League Baseball announced a deal with Verizon to make the MLB Extra Innings Package, including HD and out-of-market baseball games, available on FiOS...
Nexstar projects an up Q4
Not even Hurricane Ike could keep this company down, although Nexstar’s Southeastern Texas and Louisiana stations were impacted by the storm for much of...
FremantleMedia signs YouTube deal
More competition for NBCU/News Corp.’s Hulu: FremantleMedia, producer of “American Idol,” Brit soap opera "Neighbours" and other reality shows, has signed with YouTube to...
FOX orders full season of “The Cleveland Show”
FOX has ordered an additional nine episodes of The Cleveland Show, the highly anticipated Family Guy spin-off, bringing the series to a full season...
Full-motion mobile DTV tests a success
ION Media Networks announced two successful mobile DTV field trial demonstrations using WCPX, its station serving the Chicago market and KPXC, its station serving...
RCN, ION add Qubo in New York, Philly, DC
ION Media Networks and RCN Corporation, a provider of digital television, data and voice services to residential and small – medium business customers, announced...
Tough economy sidelines OOH ratings
It was less than two months ago that Nielsen and IMMI announced that their joint venture to measure out-of-home television viewing would be expanded from a national panel to also offer local data in
69 million have “Gaming Gene”
The newly re-branded Game Show Network/GSN announced results of a two part study commissioned by Frank N. Magid Associates and TRU revealing that one in every three adults plays online games
Reminder: Major DTV event today
NBC News correspondent David Gregory will be running the show as an all-star lineup of stakeholders in the DTV transition meet to discuss the...
BET returns “Keyshia Cole”; adds “Brothers to Brutha”
R&B means "reality and BET" every Tuesday with the return of “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is” and the debut of “Brothers to Brotha,”...
CBS Daytime announces new casting initiative
CBS Diversity Institute and Casting is undertaking a new initiative to enhance access for actors of color who are 18 years and over to...
Scripps suspends dividend
E.W. Scripps Company announced that its board of directors has suspended payment of its dividend and that a restructuring of its newspaper division will...