The Writers Guild of America has spared another awards show, the Grammys, a picket line by granting the music awards telecast an interim agreement. “Professional musicians face many of the same issues that we do concerning fair compensation for the…
TVWeek writer Daisy Whitney is hitting Vegas to cover the convention of the National Association of Television Program Executives and delivers a preview of the show in her “New Media Minute.” New digital media shops are converging on NATPE to…
Al Gore’s Current Media filed plans for an initial public offering to sell up to $100 million in stock. Current operates a cable TV network that airs mostly user-generated content. It also has a related Web site. According to the…
Virgin America will begin to feature original content from Revision3, an online TV network that produces titles such as “Diggnation,” “Tekzilla” and “Web Drifter,” on its flights to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and…
Starz is preparing to air its first original drama series, “Crash,” based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name. The 13-episode, one-hour series is being produced with Lionsgate. Key staffers from the film, including Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco,…
Most viewers say they are watching the same amount of television as they did before the Writers Guild of America strike began, according to a new survey conducted for ad buyer Carat. Among the 1,000 adults interviewed in the research,…