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Monthly Archives : April 2008

Local Stations’ Sites Strong, Ads Weak

Local television stations’ Web sites will post a jump in advertising sales while their TV ad revenue may be flat, TelevisionWeek reports. Station Web sites’ revenue will surge 45% this year to $1.1 billion, the Television Bureau of Advertising said….

NBC to Air ‘Green’ Shows in Ad Effort

NBC Universal’s television stations and Web sites next week will air more than 100 hours of environmentally oriented programming in an effort to bring in more advertising and new clients, TelevisionWeek reports. A similar effort last November helped add more…

‘Punk’d’ Sold Across U.S.

Trifecta Entertainment, which last week announced a broad partnership with Litton Entertainment for multiple syndication projects, has sold the off-cable hit “Punk’d” in 80 percent of the U.S. for Monday-through-Friday runs beginning this fall. Among the major-market stations picking up…

At NBC, Digital Rollout Begins

Upfront Offerings Include Web Original

New Syndie Shows: It’s Who Knows You

Notoriety Pays; Telepictures Signs Deen Deal

New Chief Unpacks HBO Pilots

Naegle Likes Look of Potential Pickups

The Insider: The Point of ‘The View’

The Insider has watched “The View” since the day it debuted in 1997. The sort of conversation that has always been at the heart of the ABC Daytime show has always been essential to The Insider’s personal quality of life:…

‘Gossip’ Hopes to Get Its Groove Back

The CW Tries Steamy Ads to Win Back Targeted Viewers

Wong’s New Lifetime Image to Take Flight

Network Strategy Shifts to Scripted, Reality Shows

Meidel: MyNet on Course for Upfront

Comedy, Movie Nights Planned for 2008-09