Global television shipments in the second quarter rose 11% from a year earlier to 47.5 million units, NPD Group unit DisplaySearch said today. North American flat-screen TV sales surged in advance of February’s U.S. switchover to all-digital broadcasts, while customers…
Nickelodeon is gearing-up for its quadrennial election coverage, Broadcasting & Cable reports. An election team comprising Lil’ JJ, Pick Boy and Lily Collins will report from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Also, anchor Linda Ellerbee will host two half-hour…
New data from the Nielsen Co. finds that while Barack Obama has run more local TV spots than John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee has placed more national cable TV ads than his Democratic counterpart during June and July. Nielsen…
James M. McNamara has joined Spanish-language premium film channel Cine Latino as non-executive chairman. He will oversee programming, distribution, marketing and finance for the channel. Mr. McNamara was president and CEO of Telemundo from 1999 to 2005. He also was…
Sci Fi Channel’s remake of “Children of the Corn” has cast its first two stars, according to BloodyDisgusting.com. David Anders of “Heroes” and Kandyse McClure of “Battlestar Galactica” will star in the horror TV film, set to begin shooting Sept….
Misty May-Treanor, fresh from winning her second gold medal in beach volleyball, was among the celebrities named as contestants for the seventh season of “Dancing With the Stars,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Also named were former ’NSync member Lance Bass, soap…
The Travel Channel has landed the exclusive cable broadcasting rights for season 12 of CBS’ “The Amazing Race,” Multichannel News reports. The cable network will air the reality competition series Wednesdays at 8 p.m. beginning Sept. 3. Travel Channel also…
“Dora the Explorer” returns for its fifth season on Nick Jr. and eighth season overall, this time with an entirely new voiceover cast, Multichannel reports. Among the new cast members are Caitlin Sanchez as Dora and Alexandria Suarez as Backpack….
Summer was good to YouTube. The world’s biggest video-sharing site delivered 5 billion streams to nearly 78 million unique visitors in July, according to Video Census figures from Nielsen Online. That’s a 25% increase in volume from June, when YouTube…
Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Visa have had the most memorable ads during the Olympics, according to research conducted by TNS Custom and TNS Media. Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Visa enjoyed 21%, 15% and 11% unaided brand recall, respectively, for Olympic viewers. Recall…