Conrad Riggs, Mark Burnett’s former partner on “Survivor,” is suing Burnett for $70 million in damages, the Los Angeles Times reports. Riggs claims that Burnett reneged on his long-standing agreement to pay Riggs and his company Cloudbreak Entertainment 10% of…
NBC Universal will broadcast 3,600 hours of coverage from this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing across its various networks and NBCOlympics.com. This year’s coverage sets the record as the most televised coverage in Summer Olympics broadcast history, amounting to more…
Ted Koppel will offer his expertise on international and national news as a contributing analyst for “BBC World News America,” TVNewser reports. Koppel will appear on the air alongside anchor Matt Frei, in addition to providing illustrated essays for broadcast,…
The first in a series of new “three-screen” reports by Nielsen revealed that consumers are using the Internet more and more for video, with the average American spending 26 hours on the Internet in May, the New York Times reports….
Tom Mazzarelli will join CBS’ “The Early Show” as a senior producer, TVNewser reports. Mazzarelli was a senior producer on NBC’s “Today” show and launched “The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet” on Fox, the Web site notes. —Vlada Gelman
Popular Wall Street Journal “Personal Technology” columnist Walt Mossberg will begin making weekly appearances on Fox Business Network this week. Mr. Mossberg will make his debut at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, but his regularly scheduled appearances are going to be on…
About 27% more people are illegally copying DVDs this year than a year ago, according to a May survey. Much of the growth was driven by a surge in television show duplication by U.K. customers. U.S. consumers were more successful…
CBS News is putting the final touches on its new control room in preparation for “The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric’s” HD premiere later this month, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The renovation will give producers more room and provide…
Lynda King has been named president of guerilla marketing for Local TV, Broadcasting & Cable reports. She will immediately be tasked to head “Project Duh,” which brings fresh eyes to old practices that don’t work, the newspaper says. King previously…
The Web site for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama had drawn 2.3 million unique users as of May; that’s four times as many as Sen. John McCain’s site, MediaWeek reports. Nielsen found that McCain’s site attracted 563,000 individual visitors,…