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ABC today is expected to announce a 15-point index to help advertisers choose their best marketing opportunities on the Walt Disney-owned network, the Wall Street Journal reports. ABC’s “Advertising Value Index” will include such audience criteria as income, education level…
ABC is likely to keep next season’s prime-time schedule the same for Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which feature “Desperate Housewives,” “Private Practice” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” respectively, TelevisionWeek reports. The Walt Disney unit will likely schedule “Dancing With the Stars” on…
The CW is likely keep its “Gossip Girl”-anchored Mondays and “Smallville”-led Thursdays intact next season, and it will add “Beverly Hills, 90210” spinoff “90210” to its Thursdays, Daily Variety reports. “America’s Top Model,” featured on Wednesdays, will be programmed next…
After CBS recently ordered comedy “Worst Week” for a season, sister company CBS Paramount Television asked the show’s producer, NBC Universal Media Studios, to be a co-producer, TelevisionWeek reports. Universal may agree to the partnership if CBS schedules the show…
Apple agreed to sell some HBO episodes on its iTunes service for more than the standard $1.99 price, though specifics on the price and shows weren’t disclosed, Daily Variety reports. HBO’s “Sex and the City” and “The Sopranos” will begin…
Dish Network, the No. 2 satellite-television operator behind DirecTV, said yesterday it added 35,000 net new first-quarter subscribers, down from 310,000 a year earlier, as customer turnover increased. The company cited new fiber-optic TV services, promotions from competitors and the…
Accreditation for Nielsen ratings system that factors in digital-video recorder playbacks were withheld last week by the Media Rating Council, Media Daily News reports. The so-called C3 ratings system may remain unaccredited by the time advertising negotiations for the upfronts…
ABC signed former “Will & Grace” star Megan Mullally to star opposite Alicia Silverstone in the comedy pilot “Bad Mother’s Handbook,” Daily Variety reports. Mullally, who recently played on Broadway in “Young Frankenstein,” is a two-time Emmy winner, the newspaper…
“Fraggle Rock,” the Jim Henson series featured on HBO in the 1980s, will be made into a live-action film musical by Weinstein Co., Daily Variety reports. “Hoodwinked!” director Cory Edwards will do the same for the film while Ahmet Zappa…