News Corp. President-Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin said he believes his company’s networks and most of the other networks are in good enough shape to withstand for a few months the writers strike, which is now more than two months…
With Warner Bros.’ announcement last week that it would release high-definition DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray format starting later this year, Sony has likely won the battle over Toshiba’s HD DVD format. The next question is whether the DVD format…
The player: Douglas Lee, executive vice president of worldwide digital media at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The play: Mr. Lee helped launch MGM’s U.S. high-definition channel on DirecTV in October, using all-day programming to showcase the studio’s movie inventory. About 1,000 of MGM’s…
Apple May Add Blu-ray Drives to Macs Apple may announce at the Macworld conference that it will add Blu-ray drives to its Macintosh computers, Fortune magazine’s Web site reported, citing Shaw Wu, an analyst at American Technology Research. Wu, citing…
HD programming picks for Jan. 10-16: “Blue Angels,” “Conan the Barbarian,” “American Gladiators” Blue Angels: A Year in the Life” (Discovery HD). Monday, Jan. 10-Sunday, Jan. 13, check for times. Off you go into the wild blue yonder to follow…
The Writers Guild of America and CBS have reached a tentative agreement regarding nearly 500 local and national CBS news writers, editors, desk assistants, production assistants, graphic artists, promotion writers and researchers. Those employees having been working without a contract…
Alltel Wireless, Mercedes-Benz and Garnier will be integrated sponsors for Bravo’s new series “Make Me a Supermodel.” As exclusive wireless sponsor, Alltel will sponsor the live voting for the series and an online game on the series’ Web site. Mercedes-Benz…
“Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer will host the two-hour NBC News special “Going for Gold,” scheduled to precede the announcement of Golden Globes winners Sunday night on NBC. The strike by the Writers Guild of America forced the cancellation of the…
Layoffs Abound Due to Strike Several studios and entertainment agencies, including Warner Bros., Walden Media and the Innovative Agency, announced layoffs or impending staff cuts due to the writers strike, Daily Variety reports. Warner Bros. told 1,000 employees Tuesday to…