Discovery Communications’ new Planet Green network this weekend will begin airing a documentary featuring a Kansas town destroyed by a 2007 tornado that’s being rebuilt in an energy-efficient manner, the New York Times reports. Greensburg, Kansas, where 11 people were…
CBS Television Distribution’s upcoming syndicated medical talk show “The Doctors” is adding three members to its production staff. Andrew Scher has been named co-executive producer of “Doctors” after serving as senior producer on “Dr. Phil.” George Davilas and Jeff Hudson…
Internet TV technology companies JumpTV and NeuLion have signed a binding letter of intent to merge, creating an end-to-end video company powering live sports, international and religious programming. JumpTV will trade common and contingent shares in exchange for NeuLion securities,…
Time Warner Inc. CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said the company does not have any plans to buy NBC Universal, but would consider it if General Electric put the division up for sale, Reuters reports. GE said earlier this year that it…
The new season of “The Shield” will premiere Sept. 2, according to the FX Web site, the Chicago Tribune reports. The upcoming season will be the show’s last, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman
BBC America plans a summer airing for a documentary about Alain Robert, who free-climbed the New York Times building in Times Square last week, the New York Post reports. “The Human Spider,” which premiered in April in Britain, will air…
The Parents Television Council is urging all CBS affiliates to preempt the new drama “Swingtown,” TVNewsday reports. The group is especially targeting affiliates in the Central and Mountain time zones, where the program comes airs at 9 p.m., the Web…
CBS is expected to take in $2.5 billion at an average 8% cost-per-thousand-viewers increase as it nears the end of its prime-time upfront, Mediaweek reports. The total, which excludes the prime-time NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship inventory, is $50 million more…
The N has signed media agency Media Storm to promote its 24-hour teen network, Media Daily News reports. The agency will develop off-air consumer campaigns for the network’s original and acquired programming, as well as the-n.com, the Web site reports….
Renetta McCann, global CEO of media buyer Starcom MediaVest Group, announced plans to take a one-year sabbatical from the company and the marketing industry. Ms. McCann will vacate her global CEO position immediately, although her sabbatical will not begin until…