SoapNet will debut an original scripted series, “MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives,” about ice hockey players on the Canadian Mustangs team and their wives. The first 10 hourlong episodes of the series will begin airing June 19 at…
“Friday Night Lights” will play on for a third season under a partnership with DirecTV, which will offer the small-town drama first to its 16.8 million satellite subscribers exclusively starting in October. The 13 new episodes that have been ordered…
NBC Digital Entertainment will release a slew of original Web content inspired by its prime-time offerings starting this summer. The new digital offerings include original Webisodes of “Chuck,” “Heroes” and “The Office.” Also in the works are new digital productions…
Ads embedded in YouTube videos perform just as well as ads on television, Google said. Those are the findings from a study commissioned by Google to measure the effectiveness of 30-second ads on YouTube, on TV and embedded into content…
NBC today unveiled a 65-week schedule for prime time going into 2009, moving early to give advertisers more time to attach themselves to the network’s programming. Four new shows are being added for the fall, including an hourlong “Knight Rider”…
The Senate Commerce Committee is delaying for several weeks its expected vote on overturning the Federal Communications Commission’s media-ownership rules changes. The committee had been expected to vote today to support overturning the FCC rules change, which eases the way…
In the agency world, landing new business can get a little hairy. But that’s not a worry for Barbara Kittridge. The former L’Oreal executive, who recently joined Spark Communications, still has friends at the company who can get her all…
For some people, a round of golf is an adventure. In its new show, Golf Channel is creating an adventure for five teams of players. “Highway 18,” scheduled to premiere July 22, sends five two-man teams off on a golf…
The majority of the largest advertisers reduced ad spending in 2007. As a group, the top 10 media spenders lowered their outlays by 0.3% compared with 2006. The complete list of big marketers, with their spending figures in millions of…
Rev. Jesse Jackson and “Inside the Actors Studio” host James Lipton will be among the keynote speakers at Promax/BDA’s 53rd annual conference. Promax/BDA, a nonprofit organization for content marketing, promotion and design professionals, will hold this year’s conference from June…