Marvel Studios presold cable rights of “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man” and three other yet-to-be determined series to FX, Daily Variety reports. Under such agreements, cable companies pay license fees equal to about 11% of a movie’s domestic gross for…
Monica Seles, the nine-time Grand Slam tennis champion, will be a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars,” Multichannel News reports. Seles, the youngest French Open winner in history, will conduct question-and-answer sessions on the competition that will be broadcast on…
DirecTV will offer all of the 37 NCAA basketball tournament games it’s including in its “Mega March Madness” pay-per-view package in high definition, Multichannel News says. The package for the tournament, which starts March 20, will cost $69, Multichannel News…
Los Angeles station KTLA today will air a morning-news program designed to compete against “The View,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The hour-long show will be hosted by members of “KTLA Morning News,” including Michaela Pereira and Cher Calvin, the newspaper…
Univision’s Spanish-language version of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” has been among the 10 most-watched shows among Latino adults since debuting in January, the New York Times reports. “Amas de Casa Desesperadas” marks the first time Univision has remade a U.S. show,…
Online video ad network BrightRoll has introduced high-definition ad units, the company said today. This will allow branded advertisers to deliver marketing messages in hi-def online, the company said. BrightRoll matches the ads with “hi-def ready” publishers, including Federated Media…
For broadcast television networks trying to woo back viewers after the writers strike, the next few weeks may prove a turning point. The networks are returning to the first-run scripted programming they lost during the 100-day Writers Guild of America…
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