The Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers reached a tentative contract agreement today after less than a week of negotiations. According to the DGA, the contract negotiations included new residual formulas for paid…
House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell is still unhappy with the pace of the digital TV transition, and he’s scheduling a hearing to discuss it. The powerful Michigan Democrat today announced that the hearing of the committee’s telecom…
Charlie Rose is going to do for “60 Minutes” what he did for six years for the late “60 Minutes II”: contribute stories. Mr. Rose will continue to host, produce and edit “Charlie Rose,” his interview show seen on some…
Directors Guild Signs Deal With Producers The Directors Guild of America has signed a tentative contract agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers today after five days of negotiations, Daily Variety reports. This news turns the heat…
CBS made two deals to expand its out-of-home advertising business into more stores and into auto dealerships. The deals come one day after NBC touted its NBC Everywhere place-based digital video capabilities to ad buyers and discussed new partnerships aimed…
Video search service Truveo introduced a new section of its site dedicated to video from presidential election coverage. The new page includes election-related video from TV networks, user-generated sites and the campaigns themselves. The new site on AOL-owned Truveo includes…
Online video ad network Broadband Enterprises received a $10 million strategic equity investment, the company announced today. The cash infusion comes from Velocity Interactive Group. Broadband Enterprises said the money will be used to expand the breadth and depth of…
VH1 is promoting two of its senior programming executives as executive VP Michael Hirschorn leaves to form a new entertainment company. VH1 parent MTV Networks has made a first-look deal with Mr. Hirschorn’s Ish Entertainment, which is committed to developing…
As Sony and Toshiba responded to Warner Bros.’ recent decision to exclusively back Sony’s Blu-ray high-definition DVD player format, Comcast and Apple used technology conferences this month to push their own technologies in the battle for home-based HD movie purchases….
The player: David Asch, executive VP of iN Demand Networks. The play: Mr. Asch is helping to boost the profile of all-HD network Mojo, which became a full-time linear channel last year after four years of providing programming blocks and…