While some prominent Twitter users are testing out new services, the still-dominant micro-blogging site has grown six-fold over last year despite technical problems, according to online audience measurement service Hitwise. Despite regular outages, Twitter’s market share of visits among micro-blogging…
Jim Berman has been named VP and general manager of WVEC-TV, Belo Corp.’s ABC affiliate in Hampton-Norfolk, Va. Mr. Berman’s tenure will begin Aug. 4. He had been VP and general manager of WHP-TV and WLYH-TV, the Newport Television Partners-owned…
The International Olympic Committee has announced that broadcasters will be able to transmit live by satellite from around Beijing and Tiananmen Square, Reuters reports. Broadcasters were previously in the dark about whether they’d be able to film live transmissions during…
Seth MacFarlane’s exclusive Google series “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy” will debut in September, Reuters reports. The 50 two-minute animated vignettes will be presented online by AdSense’s network with advertising embedded in multiple formats, including preroll and “sponsored by”…
Ashley Dupre, a call girl hired by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, is shopping a reality dating show with production company Reveille, Entertainment Weekly reports. The show would follow Dupre as she works with a therapist to deal with…
NBC Universal’s acquisition of The Weather Channel could provide the company with a “secret weapon” in the form of the ZIP codes that weather.com collects from users, Online Media Daily reports. Gartner media analyst Andrew Frank argues that the ZIP…
Brie Larson will play the daughter of Toni Collette’s character on Showtime’s upcoming series “United States of Tara,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The role was played by Portia Doubleday in the pilot, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman
A&E Television Networks’ Bio has ordered “Shatner’s Raw Nerve,” a celebrity interview series hosted by William Shatner that will feature guests such as Jimmy Kimmel, Leonard Nimoy, Judge Judy, Jon Voight, Jenna Jameson and Kelsey Grammer, Broadcasting & Cable reports….
Showtime is developing “Guys and Divas: Battle of the High School Musical,” a two-hour documentary about three Indiana high schools trying to top one another’s musical productions, Media Daily News reports. The documentary is expected to air this year and…
KBNZ-LP, a low-power station being launched soon by New Vision Television in Bend, Ore., will be the CBS affiliate in the 192nd-largest TV market in the country. New Vision Executive VP Steve Spendlove will oversee KBNZ and sister Oregon station…