A keystone of good journalism is transparency. That is, telling the news consumer enough about how a story was reported to let them judge how much credence it deserves. Recently, The New York Times pulled back the curtain on how…
NBC Entertainment Co-chairman Ben Silverman said his contemporaries in Hollywood understand intuitively the symbiotic relationship between advertisers and programmers. “There’s a new generation of creative forces inside Hollywood who I’ve grown up with and helped accelerate the careers of many…
The first ever New Media Minute-TVWeek.com “Hottest Web Host” Tournament enters its final round of voting today. The contest, which kicked off in late April, will conclude on Friday, May 9 at 2 p.m. when the polls close. Last week,…
Mary Jeanne “MJ” Cavanagh has been named executive VP of advertising sales at the Gospel Music Channel, MediaWeek reports. Cavanagh previously was the ad sales chief at Oxygen Media, which she joined in 2002, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
A group of congressmen is calling on the Pentagon’s Inspector General to probe whether the Department of Defense went too far in trying to sway the opinions of military analysts on network and cable TV shows in behalf of the…
Cable operators Charter Communications, Mediacom Communications and Cequel Communications are urging Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin to broaden a proposal that would give small cable operators relief from rules requiring the duplicative carriage of some local TV signals, Multichannel…
Jesse Plemons (“Friday Night Lights”), James Roday and Maggie Lawson (“Psych”), Rachel Miner (“Californication”), Colin Ferguson (“Eureka”) and Christie Laing (“The 4400”) are among actors joining the cast of NBC’s horror anthology “Fear Itself,” the Chicago Tribune reports. Directors John…
“Hee Haw” star Jim Hager died May 1 in Nashville after collapsing at a coffee shop, AP reports. Hager was one-half of the country life-satirizing Hager Twins, who spouted corny one-liners on the long-running “Hee Haw,” the wire service notes….
Macrovision has acquired Gemstar-TV Guide International for $2.8 billion, Multichannel News reports. Macrovision has expressed interest in selling TV Guide magazine, TV Guide Network and the TVG horse-racing channel, choosing to focus on interactive program guides, connected services and device…
The Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Telepictures Productions’ “TMZ” program is a news show, Broadcasting & Cable reports. As a news show, the program is not required, as licensees are by the FCC, to offer equal airtime to all…