Viacom and MTVN Entertainment will create one Web destination, Atom.com, by merging AtomFilms.com and AtomUploads.com properties. The new site will combine original comedy programming with user-generated video. Building on a model used by sites like Sony’s Crackle site, MTVN hopes…
The “Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget” will air Aug. 17 on the cable network. “It’s an honor. … My ass is already sore,” Mr. Saget stated. Mr. Saget is best known for his role on “Full House.” He hosted…
Former New York Giants player Michael Strahan filmed a cameo on NBC’s “Chuck,” the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. Strahan plays the manager of Mighty Jock, a sporting goods store in the same mall complex where Chuck works, the newspaper says….
CBS’ tender offer for Web site CNET’s outstanding shares was completed Wednesday, with the $1.8 billion acquisition expected to close in “the next few business days,” Multichannel News reports. CNET will become a wholly owned, direct subsidiary of CBS upon…
Equity Media Holdings has sold its Retro Television Network to Luken Communications for $18.5 million, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Equity Media also sold its Univision- and TeleFutura-affiliated TV stations in six markets to Luken for $5 million, the newspaper says….
Hearst-Argyle Television is conducting national polls on the presidential race and national issues for the first time, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The first poll, conducted by Franklin & Marshall College, showed that Sen. Barack Obama was leading Sen. John McCain…
Comcast has chosen Motorola, Pace Micro Technology and Thomson as its digital-to-analog converter box supply vendors, Multichannel News reports. The operator will order up to 6 million converters in 2008 and 12 million next year to distribute to analog video…
Chris Noth is giving up his “Law & Order” gun and badge for a second time, leaving the cast of USA Network’s “L&O: Criminal Intent” at the end of the series’ seventh season. Mr. Noth will be replaced on the…
Time Warner Cable begins rolling out the Africa Channel in Los Angeles on July 29 as part of a national distribution agreement signed last fall that eventually will bring the network to some 14 million households throughout the U.S. “Time…