Verizon Wireless said Tuesday it reached mobile-content distribution agreements for its VCast video service with about a dozen networks, including MTV, CNN and ABC, Multichannel News reports. Verizon Wireless will also have an “Election 08” channel covering the presidential race,…
Munich-based Tandem Communications acquired the rights to develop the Ken Follett bestseller “The Pillars of the Earth” into a miniseries, which will be co-produced with Ridley and Tony Scott, the Hollywood Reporter says. The production budget for the show, based…
MTV Networks next month will air about 100 commercials for the feature film “Speed Racer” that will morph into a text-message contest awarding the winner a $100,000 replica of the title character’s car, the Hollywood Reporter says. Viewers will be…
A video-sharing service launched a tool that allows users to upload videos to YouTube from any Web site, TelevisionWeek reports. Magnify.net’s “VidyUp” was created as a “community engagement tool,” the newspaper says, citing the company. –Danny King
Food Channel and HGTV parent E.W. Scripps said yesterday that Timothy Stautberg will be chief financial officer after the company splits off its interactive division in July. Stautberg joined Scripps in 1990 and has overseen investor relations since 1999. –Danny…
Fox Television promoted a handful of executives, including Beth Miyares and James Oh, Daily Variety reports. Miyares, named vice president of current programming, has worked on shows such as “Prison Break” and “Back to You,” while Oh has been involved…
Video-sharing service Magnify.net introduced a new widget that lets site visitors upload video directly to YouTube from any Web site or blog. The widget is called “VidyUp” and is designed to be a “community engagement tool for site hosts to…
The first quarter of 2008 ended with separately directed layoffs and restructurings at CBS News and in the news operations at several CBS-owned stations. People familiar with the stations’ situations said there will be some local operations that do not…
TNT has given the go-ahead to drama series “Truth in Advertising,” from the creators of “The Closer,” Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin. The show stars Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh as ad executives whose friendship and professional relationship is…
The Writers Guild of America, East, has filed separate arbitration cases against ABC and Corday Productions for allegedly violating the guild’s strike termination agreement by retaining writers hired during the writers strike earlier this year. The WGAE alleges that Corday…