Dish Network and the cable industry are joining forces to oppose the start date of the NAB’s proposed retransmission-consent “quiet period” around the digital TV transition, Multichannel News reports. Dish and cable operators are concerned about the Feb. 4 start…
Verizon will exclusively premiere Disney Channel’s movie “The Cheetah Girls One World” on Aug. 19, Media Daily News reports. The movie will be available on Verizon’s FiOS service as a VOD stream at no extra charge, the Web site says….
A final draft of the 2008 Democratic Party Platform signals that its candidates will follow Barack Obama’s push for increased diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, as well as more educational content on the Web and television. The plank…
NBC said it has sold an additional $10 million in Olympic advertising time this week. That builds on the $1 billion in sales the network rang up before the games began last Friday. With its early ratings soaring, Olympic programming…
On Monday and Tuesday, the first two days the full crew of “Today” broadcast together from the Beijing Olympics, the NBC morning show averaged 6.425 million viewers and 6.428 million viewers, respectively, according to preliminary fast national data from Nielsen…
Season 12 of “The View” will premiere Sept. 2 on ABC, featuring a performance from former boy-band sensation New Kids on the Block. “Ready, Set, View,” a new on-air campaign, will begin airing Aug. 18 on ABC in anticipation of…
Hedge Fund manager Harbinger Capital said it acquired 11.45 million shares of Cablevision Systems during the second quarter, making it the fifth-largest outside shareholder in the cable operator. Analyst Richard Greenfield said he believes that the Harbinger investment may be…
Four commercial stations in Wilmington, N.C., site of the earliest complete switch to digital signals, will turn off their analog signals for one minute starting at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 19. The test is in preparation for the closely watched real…
New digital broadcast technology is breathing new life into television’s oldest shows as broadcasters seek cheap programming to fill up new multicast channels, USA Today reports. Various services have sprung up to meet viewers when they switch to digital and…
Katherine Fugate, who created Lifetime’s top-rated series “Army Wives,” has been discharged by the network and ABC Studios, which produces the show, Entertainment Weekly reports. “With the show such an established hit, now seems like a logical time for me…