Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger said networks should either start or expand video-on-demand choices to attract younger viewers, Multichannel News reports. Mr. Iger also said Disney would like to buy out partner Hearst Corp.’s shares in networks such as ESPN,…
Tribune Co. has re-branded its Superstation WGN as WGN America, the Chicago Tribune reports. Using the new slogan “TV You Can’t Ignore,” WGN plans to add an original program to its lineup by the end of the summer.
National Basketball Association playoff games are no longer being broadcast on state-rung national broadcaster CCTV, the Associated Press reports. Entertainment and sports programming was taken off the air last week during a three-day mourning period for victims of the deadly…
Horatio Sanz, formerly with “Saturday Night Live,” has gotten a role in the new ABC fall comedy “Bad Mother’s Handbook,” according to TV Guide. The comedy also stars Alicia Silverstone and Megan Mullally.
Shirley Manson, the lead singer of the band Garbage, will have a regular role in Fox’s series “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Ms. Manson will play the CEO of a high-tech company.
NBC will be the first network to interview former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, whose memoir accuses President George W. Bush of using “propaganda” to sell the Iraq war to the American public, Daily Variety reports. Mr. McClellan will…
Comedy Central paid $4 million for exclusive rights to show “Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay” starting in October 2010, Daily Variety reports. The sequel to “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” grossed more than $36 million in…
Viacom Chief Executive Office Philippe Dauman said the company won’t bid on the Weather Channel and will focus on growing its own units, Multichannel News reports. Time Warner and NBC Universal were among bidders that may have bid as much…
A recent interview CNN’s Howard Kurtz conducted on “Reliable Sources” with Kimberly Dozier, the CBS journalist wounded in Iraq, raises ethical questions because Mr. Kurtz’s wife worked as a publicist for Ms. Dozier on her memoir, the New York Times…
TiVo reported that its first-quarter net income more than quadrupled as cost for marketing and research declined, the Associated Press reports. The digital video recorder pioneer racked up earnings of $3.6 million, compared to $835,000, despite a drop in total…