Viewing remained largely higher than season-to-date averages but subsided to more normal patterns for the networks’ late-night shows on Thursday, their second night back after eight weeks of writers strike-induced reruns. NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” was still…
Food Network signed a new three-year agreement with host Alton Brown. The channel recently re-signed celebrity cook Rachael Ray, but has a less-certain relationship with its biggest star Emeril Lagasse. Production of long-running “Emeril Live” was halted late last year….
CBS is folding College Sports Television Networks into the operations of CBS Sports, the company said Thursday. Tony Petitti, executive VP and executive producer of CBS Sports, will oversee day-to-day operations of CSTV, replacing Brian Bedol, who founded the company…
The Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences is partnering with the Foo Fighters, CBS Interactive and YouTube on this year’s “My Grammy Moment” contest. After doing a similar contest that put an unknown singer on stage with Justin Timberlake during…
Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton’s war against YouTube didn’t last long. After posting a YouTube kiss-off video Dec. 20 urging other video creators to defect from the site as well, Mr. Hilton returned to the site Dec. 27 with a…
The return of network late-night talk shows during the TV writers strike provided a ratings bounce for most of the competitors, with NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” scoring wins in their time…
While most people are glued to the Super Bowl, DIY Network is planning a Toilet Bowl Marathon for viewers more interested in tiling than touchdowns. DIY will be showing 11 hours of new episodes of its series “Bathroom Renovations” from…
Video search service Truveo said it now indexes more than 100 million online videos. That’s 20 times the number of videos it tracked on the Web at the start of last year. A year ago, Truveo’s servers were adding 20,000…
Hallmark Channel owner Crown Media Holdings reached an agreement with the National Interfaith Cable Coalition, which owns a stake in the company and provides programming to the channel, that reduces the amount of faith-related shows on the network. Hallmark and…