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Monthly Archives : January 2008

Shine’s Murdoch to Keynote at Mip/MILIA

Elisabeth Murdoch, chairman-CEO of U.K. producer Shine, will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s Mip TV Featuring MILIA on April 7. This year’s event, with the theme “Audiences on the Move,” will focus on the latest global developments in…

Endemol Gets ‘Buzzed’ With Metacafe

Production company Endemol USA is producing an online game show in partnership with popular video Web site Metacafe, the companies announced today. The show, called “Buzzed,” will feature impromptu, man-on-the-street interviews with bar and nightclub patrons answering general-interest and pop…

YouTube Viewership Up Slightly for Week

YouTube’s audience grew for the first time in two weeks when it reached 30.3 million viewers for the week ending Jan. 20. That’s up from 29.7 million unique users for the week ending Jan. 13, according to Nielsen Online. MSN…

WGA Strike Roundup: Tuesday, Jan. 29

WGA, Studios Narrowing Gap in Informal Talks The Writers Guild of America and the networks and studios Monday moved closer to outlining an agreement after a week of informal talks, narrowing the gap on issues such as dividing earnings from…

Tremor Media Links With Digitalsmiths

Online video ad network Tremor Media has partnered with video ad targeting firm Digitalsmiths to offer contextually relevant ads to the more than 800 Web sites in Tremor’s network, the companies announced today. Tremor reaches more than 92 million unique…

Grammys Makes Deal With Writers

The Writers Guild of America has spared another awards show, the Grammys, a picket line by granting the music awards telecast an interim agreement. “Professional musicians face many of the same issues that we do concerning fair compensation for the…

2007 Rookies Chalk Up Strong Renewals

The announcement of the second-season renewal for “Merv Griffin’s Crosswords” has all but wrapped up speculation at NATPE on the status of this year’s crop of rookies for fall 2008. It looks like the 2007-08 syndication season may become the…

MGM Revives ‘Gladiators 2000’ for Fall ’08

While Hulk Hogan has helped revive the “American Gladiators” franchise on NBC, MGM announced at NATPE that the studio will bring back “Gladiators 2000” from the shelves for off-network syndication for the fall of 2008. The series was originally shot…

‘Bones’ Cleared in 45% of U.S.

Fresh off a sale to TNT, Twentieth Television has cleared “Bones” to 45% of the country. The off-net drama now is in more than 20 markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia for a launch in fall 2009….

‘Blue’ Fines Draw Praise, Criticism

Reaction is starting to come in to the FCC’s attempt to fine 52 ABC stations $1.4 million for airing a 2003 episode of “NYPD Blue” that featured shots of a woman’s bare buttocks. Some critics who have suggested network programming…