The University of Notre Dame and NBC Sports plan to announce a new five-year agreement under which NBC will televise Fighting Irish home football games through 2015, the network said. The extension provides NBC rights to eight Notre Dame home…
Sen. Barack Obama is formally renouncing public financing for the fall campaign, a decision expected to dramatically kick up his ad spending this fall. If he had accepted public funds, the Illinois senator’s campaign would have received $84 million, but…
The cable news networks have begun closing upfront deals, ad sales executives and media buyers say. In yet another sign that the upfront is alive and kicking harder than expected, network executives say buyers have come to them earlier than…
Reality TV maven Mark Burnett and “Two and a Half Men” co-creator Chuck Lorre are getting stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which greenlights honorees, announced Wednesday that the two producers will be among…
Tiger Wood’s season-ending injury is also expected to cause some pain at the networks that broadcast golf because ratings fade when he’s not in tournaments, the New York Times reports. The network that may miss him most is Comcast’s Golf…
Michelle Obama caused confusion while guest co-hosting ABC’s “The View” after she allegedly called her husband, presidential hopeful Barack Obama, “pathetic,” the Washington Post reports. The candidate’s wife clarified that she called the senator “empathetic,” the Post says. Michelle Obama…
Media outlets continued to face difficulties getting permission to broadcast from non-Olympic venues by Chinese officials as the summer games draw nearer, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since May state officials have denied requests and credentials seeking coverage for venues…
News Corp. COO Peter Chernin and Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger may step back into the fray to break the negotiation logjam with the Screen Actors Guild, Daily Variety reports. The executives played a similar role in helping to…
Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox Television has formed a partnership with ITV in England to develop and produce shows for the British and American markets, Television Week reports. One possibility is creating a show with a cast of actors from…
LG Electronics may trail Sony and Samsung in overall global high-definition television market share, but the Seoul, Korea-based company is trying to become the HDTV of choice among hotel operators. The world’s third-largest liquid-crystal display TV maker signed two agreements…