Major TV experts sing the praises of “Lost” and Tina Fey as contributors to some of the biggest moments in TV this year, Yahoo! TV reports. Critics and reporters mentioned Fey for her work not only on NBC’s “30 Rock”…
The upcoming season of “Survivor” just finished production in Brazil, host Jeff Probst tells Ryan Seacrest on his morning radio talk show, KIIS-FM 102.7 FM reports. In a radio interview, Probst says he just came back from shooting the 18th…
Tis the season for year-end columns—and all the cliches that come with them. Including, apparently, lead sentences that begin with “‘tis the season.” Lists, of course, are always a staple of columns this time of year. Coming up with New…
Smaller advertisers have begun to retreat from the marketplace, accounting for the overall decline in ad spending in the U.S. this year, MediaPost reports. While big companies will continue to advertise and have shown just a 0.2% decline for the…
The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research and Cablevision Systems raised more than $1.5 million at the eighth annual Holiday Rock & Roll Bash on Dec. 11. Cablevision is underwriting all of the Lustgarten Foundation’s administrative costs, ensuring that all…
ABC News is appealing recent New York court decision that may bring a lawsuit against the news group and Diane Sawyer to trial, the New York Post reports. Twenty-year-old Kyle Nelson is suing ABC, Sawyer, her father, her stepmother and…
Promax BDA will hold its 54th annual conference June 16-18 at the Hilton New York, TVNewsday reports. The organization is accepting proposals for speakers and sessions for the show, “Leading the Marketing & Design Economy,” on its Web site www.promaxbda.org,…
Writer-producer-actor-director Carl Reiner and premium cable channel Showtime were honored at the Paley Center for Media’s gala in Los Angeles Thursday night, the Hollywood Reporter says. The general sentiment toward Reiner, as Lily Tomlin put it, was that there weren’t…
Former “American Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe is firing back against criticism from Paula Abdul for allowing Paula Goodspeed, a former Abdul stalker, to audition during the show’s fifth season, People Magazine reports. Lythgoe mentioned that Goodspeed, who committed suicide outside…
Mobile ad price rates are decreasing as more and more handheld devices make their way to consumers, Advertising Age reports. On average, mobile ads are hovering around a $15 cost-per-thousand-viewers (CPM), compared to $20-$25 CPMs the spots were fetching earlier…