Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin celebrated the regulator’s likely decision to support his plan to punish cable giant Comcast for interfering with some customers’ file-sharing software, the New York Times reports. Such sanctions will be “increasingly applied” to overly…
IAC/InterActiveCorp’s HSN shopping cable network’s second-quarter revenue rose 2%, though the unit took a $272 million operating loss, Reuters says. IAC, which next month will spin off the former Home Shopping Network into its own public company, had a smaller…
The Federal Trade Commission is urging media companies to use children’s advertising to promote more healthful foods, TelevisionWeek reports. According to a report released by the FTC, about 63% of the total $1.6 billion spent by food and beverage companies…
Comcast’s second-quarter profits grew 8%, less than Wall Street analysts had forecast, the Associated Press reports. Revenues rose 11% to $8.56 billion. The housing slump meant the company was able to hook up fewer new communities, the wire service says….
Though Miley Cyrus said in an interview that she’s thinking the next season of “Hannah Montana” could be her last, a top Disney Channel executive says he expects the singing star to appear in the show beyond that, according to…
Viacom said revenues from its movie business offset weak advertising growth at its cable networks, TelevisionWeek reports. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman said that midway through the second quarter “scatter volume dropped off” and that the weakness continued into the beginning…
An earthquake shook up Hollywood Tuesday but cameras on reality television series didn’t stop rolling, the Los Angeles Times reports. The executive producer of “Big Brother” said contestants were told about the quake over a P.A. system. One cast member…
The general manager of Tribune Co.’s flagship TV station, Tom Ehlmann, resigned his post at WGN-TV, Chicago, to take to top spot at KXAS-TV, the NBC-owned station in Dallas, the Chicago Tribune reports. WGN’s sales director, Marty Wilke, was named…
A cute animal story originally produced for NBC News’ Web site aired on “Nightly News” earlier this month, possibly making it the first story to migrate from the Internet to a big-time broadcast, according to Tom Peek, executive producer for…
The Screen Actors Guild is hoping to extend its agreement with advertisers and ad agencies for an additional six months after the current October 29 end date, the Hollywood Reporter says. SAG wants to work on the new deal with…