The History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers” will move to a road running from Inuvik, Canada, to Tuktoyaktuk after diamond mine owners wouldn’t let them return to the roads outside Yellowknife, the New York Post reports. The truckers will haul oil-exploration…
Discovery Channel cameras followed the traumas and staff of an emergency room for the series “911: The Bronx,” New York Daily News reports. The programming was shot last summer at St. Barnabas, a teaching hospital in the Bronx, the newspaper…
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will partner with YouTube to present Daytime Entertainment Emmy-nominated shows on the YouTube Emmy Channel, TVNewsday reports. Fifty-seven videos, spanning 13 categories, will be available for viewing at www.youtube.com/emmys, the Web site…
The Walt Disney Co. will make the Disney Channel available for free in Spain through digital terrestrial television in July, the Wall Street Journal reports. The channel is currently broadcast on a number of Spanish cable networks, but Spain’s low…
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”…