Sen. Barack Obama will make a cameo appearance on this weekend’s season premiere of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” a spokesman for the show confirmed. Olympian Michael Phelps is scheduled to host the show, but Sen. Obama will appear in at…
The Envelope’s Gold Derby blog has posted a list of predictions for the Primetime Emmy Awards. Participants were asked to predict the winners and the results were divided into two groups, Team TV Journos and Team The Envelope. Both groups…
The CEOs of the three trade groups readying the nation for the national transition to digital broadcasting will take part in a super-panel at a conference hosted by the Association for Maximum Service Television on Sept. 22 in Washington, TVNewsday…
Jennie Garth has committed to an additional five episodes of The CW’s “90210,” Entertainment Weekly reports. The actress will appear in a total of 11 episodes this season for the new drama. Co-star Shannen Doherty has not made any deals…
It’s been almost a year since kids networks Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel launched online initiatives to win the coveted, computer-savvy youth audience. The battle is still raging, apparently, but with the Disney Channel showing a slight lead over its…
NBC has sold more than 80% of its available ad inventory for its broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII, to be played Feb. 1 in Tampa, Fla., AdAge reports. About a dozen of the ads sold went for about $3 million…
Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced Thursday the appointment of Timothy Sturgess as vice president-general manager of WTWO-TV, its NBC affiliate in Terre Haute, Ind., TVNewsday reports. Sturgess had been director of sales at Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Amarillo, Texas, since 2005….