HBO walked away with eight wins at the 29th annual Sports Emmy Awards Monday, reports Broadcasting & Cable. Among the HBO programs recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences were the documentary “Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of…
Jacqueline Hernandez, a former Time Warner publishing and TV executive, has been named chief operating officer for the Telemundo Communications Group, reports Broadcasting & Cable. Hernandez leaves Time Warner’s Turner International, where she had been publisher of People en Español….
Bilingual entertainment network LATV will expand its reach to 32 million households in a new partnership with Tribune Broadcasting, reports Broadcasting & Cable. As a part of the deal, Tribune Broadcasting will air LATV on the digital channels of its…
Long Island-based cable operator Cablevision could be acquiring cable outlet the Sundance Channel, says the Hollywood Reporter. Already home to the similarly programmed IFC Channel, Cablevision may combine the channels or run the two channels separately with one overlapping staff….
Reacting to a 30% drop in Time Warner’s stock price from its 2007 high, shareholders are urging Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes to get rid of the media company’s cable television unit, reports Bloomberg. Divesting its 84% stake in Time Warner…
Beginning in May or June, Cablevision Systems will eliminate analog feeds of basic-cable channels including A&E, TLC, E!, Sci Fi Channel and Animal Planet, reports Multichannel News. Those channels will switch to digital format, requiring current digital subscribers to obtain…
For the second week in a row, “The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric” has notched record low ratings. The newscast dropped some 50,000 viewers to average 5.34 million total viewers for the week of April 21, according to data…
Following the success of AMC’s “Mad Men,” TNT has greenlit its own series set in the world of advertising, the Seattle Times reports. “Truth in Advertising,” starring Tom Cavanagh (“Ed”) and Eric McCormack (“Will & Grace”), follows two Chicago ad…
Now back at pre-strike levels of original programming in prime time, CBS is in a “dead heat” with Fox for total viewers and running second among viewers 18 to 49 years old, CBS Corp. President-CEO Leslie Moonves said Tuesday. He…
Crown Media Holdings said it renewed its distribution agreement for Hallmark Channel with Cablevision Systems. The new agreement gives Cablevision the right to distribute the standard definition and high definition versions of Hallmark Movie Channel. Financial terms of the deal…