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Daily Archives : May 16, 2008

Yahoo to Announce Partnership With WPP

Yahoo today will likely announce a partnership with advertising company WPP in an agreement that will help WPP better target Internet users through its 24/7 Real Media unit, the New York Times reports. WPP acquired 24/7 Real Media for $649…

Dish Wins Reduced Award in Piracy Suit

Dish Network won a piracy lawsuit against DirecTV and NDS Group Plc, though the award was cut from the $1 billion sought by Dish to $1,500, the Wall Street Journal reports. The five-year-old suit was filed after NDS, majority owned…

Martha Sells Specials to Fine Living

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia sold three compilation specials to Fine Living, Daily Variety reports. The specials, to run each Saturday starting this month, feature subjects such as gardening and outdoor grilling, the newspaper says. –Danny King

Warner Home, Rainbow Make Promotions

Warner Home Video promoted Mike Saksa, Jeff Baker and Jeff Brown to help run its New Line unit, Daily Variety reports. Meanwhile, Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings promoted Jeremy Elice to vice president of original programming at its AMC network while…

MySpace TV to Develop Ziering Comedy

MySpace TV will develop an Ian Ziering-starring comedy based on a short film he starred in and produced called “Man vs. Monday,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The movie was in a number of film festivals in 2006, the newspaper reports….