Fox Sports Net and World Poker Tour Enterprises are teaming up for a new poker tournament series based on the popular online poker site ClubWPT.com. “ClubWPT.com” will give online players a chance to compete against other poker amateurs from the…
Suddenly, Katie Couric is falling upward. The nightly third-place finisher in the evening news race is enjoying a field day with her Gov. Sarah Palin interviews and the tough questions she had for members of Congress during Monday’s Wall Street…
What financial crisis? Debt-burdened Charter Communications has agreed to an amended employment agreement that boosts the pay of CEO Neil Smit by 25%, the Associated Press reports. The agreement increases Smit’s salary from $1.2 million to $1.5 million, according to…
MediaPost is reporting the launch of DisFriends.com, a social networking site created with the Disney fan in mind, where Disney-ites can create profiles, share pictures and journals and communicate with one another using live chat and discussion boards. To celebrate…
Full-frontal male nudity has made its way into the jungles of “Survivor: Gabon” and thus into many living rooms, Defamer reports. This season marks the first time “Survivor” has been broadcast in high definition, but that’s probably not what CBS…
Linda Sullivan, president and general manager of NBC’s owned-and-operated Los Angeles station KNBC-TV, announced today she will retire later this year. Ms. Sullivan plans to move back to her hometown of Boston. “It was our plan to take advantage of…
David Stefanou has been appointed vice president of original programming for Oxygen Media. Mr. Stefanou previously headed the production and development team for MTV’s London branch. He also has served at True Entertainment/Endemol, Wendy Finerman Productions, Franklin & Siegel Associates…
The stock price of station group Young Broadcasting plummeted 50% on Monday, from 8 cents per share to 4 cents, MediaPost reports. The company has been put on notice by NASDAQ for failing to meet the $1 minimum requirement and…
Online ad network Adconion inked a deal with Michael Eisner’s new-media studio Vuguru to syndicate the media titan’s new Web series “Back on Topps” starting today. The partnership is part of Adconion’s effort to expand beyond its core ad network…