Former television- and radio-station operator Randy Michaels was promoted by Tribune Co. head Sam Zell to chief operating officer and will oversee the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, Daily Variety reports. Michaels was already heading six Tribune newspapers, including…
CBS late-night talkshow host Craig Ferguson will publish his memoirs next year, Daily Variety reports. “American on Purpose,” to be published by HarperCollins, will cover Mr. Ferguson’s life, including his Scotland childhood, time as a punk rocker and battles with…
Warner Bros. Television signed feature film producer Basil Iwanyk to a one-year television development agreement, the Hollywood Reporter says. Iwanyk’s film credits include “We Are Marshall” and “Firewall,” the newspaper reports. — Danny King
Flat-screen televisions may be thin, but their manufacturers’ market-share differences in the U.S. are thinner. Samsung, Sony and Vizio ended the first quarter nearly in a dead heat within the surging North American liquid-crystal display television market, according to NPD…
The player: Jim Denney, VP of product marketing at TiVo The play: Mr. Denney spearheaded the digital video recorder maker’s three-year effort to make a machine that can record high-definition content. TiVo, which has about 4 million subscribers, released TiVo…
At least one satellite is weathering the storm. DirecTV said Wednesday that first-quarter earnings rose 10%, largely on more subscribers and less turnover from its high-definition and digital-video recorder services. That signals that DirecTV’s HD channel inventory is helping stave…
Young to Release First Blu-ray Box Set This Fall Neil Young and Reprise/Warner Bros. Records will release the first of multiple retrospective Blu-ray box sets this fall. The set, announced at a Sun Microsystems conference this week because the discs…
HD programming picks for May 8-14: “The Full Monty,” “To Live and Die in L.A.,” “Baja 1000: Desert Endurance” “The Full Monty” (Starz). Sat., May 10, 8:20 p.m. ET. Get as a clear a view as you want of the…