Landmark Communications plans to put its assets, which include the Weather Channel, up for sale. In a statement Thursday, Landmark said it has retained investment banks J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers to assist in exploring strategic alternatives, including the possible…
Late Night TV Returns With, Without Writers David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Ferguson returned to the airwaves last night, Daily Variety reports. Mr. Letterman, however, had the advantage of returning with his writers after his…
MSNBC’s former chief political producer Tammy Haddad will launch a series of political specials on XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS ’08 channel. The show will premiere Thursday at 6 p.m., with a guest lineup that includes “Meet the Press” moderator Tim…
With bowl games in full force on other networks, NBC’s counterprogramming for the sports fan, the NHL Winter Classic, delivered the league’s best regular-season rating in more than a decade. The event scored a 2.6 overnight rating and a 5…
Hearst-Argyle Television has named James J. Carter president and general manager of its WESH-TV, an NBC affiliate, and WKCF-TV, a CW affiliate. Both stations serve the Orlando-Daytona-Melbourne market in Florida. Mr. Carter has been president and general manager of Hearst-Argyle’s…
Online video network Revision3 said it served up 11 million shows and 44 million clips in the fourth quarter of 2007, a more than five-fold increase from the first quarter of 2007, the company said. For the full year, Revision3…
E! Entertainment Television picked up a second season of its weeknight comedy talk show “Chelsea Lately,” featuring comedian Chelsea Handler. The new season kicks off Jan. 7 at 11:30 p.m. on E! Since its July debut, the half-hour series has…
MTV has greenlit a second season of “A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila,” the bisexual dating show. In the first season, which drew an average of 6 million viewers, Ms. Tequila picked Bobby Banhart. The finale was shot in…
The Television Bureau of Advertising said its electronic ad sales platform, the ePort, has begun handling live orders. The TVB said Harmelin Media sent electronic orders to stations in Philadelphia using ePort, and that Horizon Media bought spots on Gray…
YouTube’s audience grew slightly the week before Christmas, according to the latest weekly figures for video-sharing sites from Nielsen Online. YouTube, far and away the leader in video sites, drew 32.8 million unique visitors for the week ending Dec. 23,…