Oxygen has picked up 10-episode reality series “The Janice Dickinson Project,” which is set to debut in spring 2006. The series features supermodel Janice Dickinson as she starts her own Hollywood modeling agency. Ms. Dickinson served as a judge in…
Sinclair Broadcast Group said Thursday that it has struck a retransmission agreement with Verizon Communications under which the phone giant will carry the station group’s digital and analog signals in Baltimore and Tampa, Fla., where Verizon is launching its new…
For the week ended Dec. 18, the majority of top-rated syndicated first-run strips were either down or flat compared with their performance the previous week, with the notable exception of Warner Bros.’ “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which scored a series…
“NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” won the flagship newscast ratings competition in all categories for the fourth quarter 2005, extending “Nightly News’” streak as most-watched network evening newscast to 25 quarters. Data through Christmas weekend from Nielsen Media Research…
CBS won the week ended Dec. 25 in both total viewers and the adults 18 to 49 demographic with help from the No. 1 show in both ratings categories — “CSI: Miami” — but NBC got some traction with its…
The American Family Association on Tuesday launched an e-mail drive urging its supporters to call their local NBC affiliate and ask it not to air NBC’s new series “The Book of Daniel.” The AFA describes the show’s main character as…
Kate Adler has been named VP of comedy development for Paramount Network Television. Brian Banks, senior VP of comedy development and Ms. Adler’s new boss, made the announcement last week. In addition, Mr. Banks announced Jim Donnelly has been promoted…
Internet site Yahoo TV is streaming commercial-free episodes of two CBS comedies for a week, the first such partnership between the Web company and the broadcaster.Starting today and running through Monday, Jan. 2, Yahoo is offering two encore episodes from…
Google’s billion-dollar investment in Time Warner’s America Online allows the search-engine giant to require AOL to offer the Google stake to the public starting July 1, 2008, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The terms of Google’s…
Cable giant Comcast became the second cable operator to officially introduce a family-friendly tier of programming, announcing Thursday a plan in which it will offer a 16-channel package for $14.95 a month.The Family Tier, as it will be called, will…