NBC is shuffling its Wednesday prime-time lineup, flipping the 8 p.m. reality series “Apprentice: Martha Stewart” with the 9 p.m. Pentagon drama “E-Ring.”Starting Oct.5, “E-Ring” will air at 8 p.m., with “Martha” moving to 9 p.m. “Law & Order” will…
Fox has ordered four additional scripts for the Thursday 9 p.m. (ET) one-hour “Reunion.” The Warner Bros. drama, which profiles a year in the life of a group of high school friends each episode, scored a 2.3 in the adults…
David Courtney, TiVo’s chief financial officer and group executive for corporate products and services, said Friday that he was stepping down effective April 15, 2006, to pursue other interests.“In light of the company’s recent accelerated achievement of its profitability target,…
Verizon Communications said Friday that it filed for a state-issued franchise with the Texas Public Utility Commission to begin offering its FiOS video service to 21 communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area as part of a strategy to speed…
Two Hollywood talent agencies have filed suit against Paramount Pictures Corp., accusing the production company of misrepresenting how much net profit it made from the long-running television comedy “Frasier.”The Jim Preminger Agency and the Kaplan Stahler Gumer Braun Agency, which…
ABC’s “Lost” and “Invasion” were the two top shows for Wednesday in the adults 18 to 49 demo, giving the network an easy win for the night in the advertiser-friendly demo.At 9 p.m. (ET) “Lost” scored a 9.4 preliminary national…
John Maatta has been named chief operating officer of The WB Television Network. The announcement was made Thursday by Garth Ancier, chairman of The WB, to whom Mr. Maatta will report.In addition to being the network’s general counsel, Mr. Maatta…
DirecTV said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with XM Satellite Radio to carry 72 music, children’s and talk channels on DirecTV’s satellite TV service.The alliance will nearly double the number of audio channels offered by DirecTV, which will…
Emmis Communications announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement with the Blackstone Group and SJL Broadcast Group to sell four more television stations for a total of $259 million.Emmis is selling CBS affiliate KOIN-TV in Portland, Ore.; Fox affiliate…
Verizon Communications said Thursday that it struck a long-term carriage agreement with The Weather Channel along with all-local weather network Weatherscan on Verizon’s new video service FiOS TV.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Verizon said it struck…