The Nielsen Co. and Interactive Market Systems will launch IMS Clear DecisionsT, a software platform that provides media buyers and sellers with media analyses and marketing data in a few keystrokes. The software mines data to pinpoint markets, channels and…
Satellite provider Dish Network has signed a deal with the Tennis Channel to broadcast this year’s French Open in an interactive format, allowing viewers to watch simultaneous matches on one screen with an option to select any match for single…
Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled a commercial featuring TV chef Rachael Ray after observers noted that her scarf resembled a keffiyeh, a headscarf traditionally worn by Arab men, the Boston Globe reports. Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin claimed the keffiyeh has…
Discovery Channel will chronicle Odyssey Marine Expeditions’ 2008 Atlas Search adventures for an as-yet-untitled series, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The 11-episode series will follow the political red tape, courtroom clashes and undersea journeys involved in uncovering shipwrecks and artifacts, the…
Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to Oscar-winning filmmaker Sydney Pollack on June 2 with an evening of programming. Beginning at 8 p.m., TCM will air “The Slender Thread,” Pollack’s directorial debut from 1965, “Three Days of the Condor,” “Tootsie”…
An agreement between Disney-ABC Domestic Television and CinemaNow will allow TiVo subscribers to rent Walt Disney Studios movies via their Internet-connected DVRs directly from the TV, Multichannel News reports. The movies will be available to view for a 24-hour period,…
Montreal-based Extenway Solutions has signed a multiyear agreement with Dish Network to distribute the satellite provider’s programming to hotel chains, Multichannel News reports. The agreement will bring new premium and HD channels to Extenway customers, forming the lineup of its…
Sophie Altman, the creator of long-running teenage quiz show “It’s Academic,” died of heart disease on May 24 in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post reports. Altman continued to produce the show, now entering its 48th season, until she was hospitalized…
Hispanic broadcast network TeleFutura will premiere “La Dama de Troya” (The Lady of Troy), its first primetime novela, on June 2, Mediaweek reports. The story centers around a woman whose husband is killed on her wedding night by a man…
Film critics Jeffrey Lyons and Alison Bailes, who host the nationally syndicated “Lyons and Bailes Reel Talk” program, will contribute to the pop culture Web site CelebrityEverything.com. Mr. Lyons and Ms. Bailes will provide CelebrityEverything.com with exclusive pieces regarding what…