Disney will stream movies on its Web site from the “Wonderful World of Disney” series on ABC following their Saturday broadcast, Reuters reports. The movies will be available Monday through Friday on Disney.com, with “Peter Pan” scheduled to end the…
Jennifer Demme will serve as City Lights Television’s VP of production, TV and digital projects, the Hollywood Reporter says. Demme will be responsible for the documentary series “3 Americas,” directed by Barbara Kopple, the newspaper says. City Lights’ credits include…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration may need more money in order to purchase stamps to send out DTV converter box coupons, Reuters reports. The program, which has enough funding to subsidize 33.5 million converter boxes, has received more than…
The Webby Film and Video Award winners continued their tradition of accepting their prize with a speech of five words or less, Reuters reports. “Five words is not enough,” Lorne Michaels, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for the SNL…
Ebay has ended its pilot program for buying and selling TV spots, Media Daily News reports. The resistance of cable networks to place their ad time up for sale is blamed for the downfall of the eBay Media Marketplace site,…
Fuelcast, a digital network broadcast at gas stations, and NBC’s out-of-home unit, NBC Everywhere, have expanded their strategic advertising and content partnership. Fuelcast is user-activated and features customized loops of advertisements and programming viewed on screens above gas pumps. The…
Lifetime Television, which hasn’t had an original comedy in a decade, ordered 13 episodes of original half-hour sitcom “Rita Rocks,” from Media Rights Capital, the network said. The series stars Nicole Sullivan (“Kim Possible,” “The King of Queens”) as a…
WE tv has added five original documentary-style specials to its summer slate. “OMG! Sextuplets,” premiering June 18 at 10 p.m. ET, follows a couple pregnant with sextuplets after undergoing fertility treatments. “Chain Gang Girls” documents an actual female chain gang…