The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., today ruled to uphold the FCC’s decision to require cable systems to make the digital signals of local broadcast must-carry stations viewable to all subscribers, including analog subscribers. The decision was made despite…
ABC is giving a vote of confidence to second-year comedy “Samantha Who”? The network has ordered seven additional episodes of the Christina Applegate series, bringing to 20 the total number of episodes it plans to produce. While full-season orders usually…
Video technology company Clearleap has secured $3.3 million in venture debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The funds will go toward enhancing development of infrastructure and business management products for television service providers and media content owners. Clearleap, whose platform…
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is taking the unprecedented step of launching its first advertising in rival John McCain’s home state of Arizona. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe announced the advertising buy this morning, saying the campaign also would relaunch advertising…
The Comcast Entertainment Group said Friday it made a deal with ABC Radio Networks that will bring content from E! Entertainment, Style Network and G4 to radio listeners. E! is expected to create celebrity and entertainment content for radio. Style…
As the presidential campaign moved into its closing weeks, negative ads continued to dominate the airwaves. But Barack Obama’s ads have turned more negative while Republican John McCain has mixed in some positive messages to his earlier all-out-attack strategy. A…
As election season builds to a climax, some of the most probing interviews and buzzy commentary is being provided by women on TV, Salon says. In particular, three women have been thrust into the spotlight: CBS’ Katie Couric, CNN’s Campbell…
Lauren Zalaznick, the boss of Bravo Media, whose gray hair is sometime untamed and has toenails painted canary yellow, takes the business of being hip very seriously, according to a story in Sunday’s New York Times. “Since she arrived at…
Fox has made decisions about two of its animated series. The network ordered a fifth Season of Seth MacFarlane’s “American Dad,” TelevisionWeek reports. The new episodes will give Twentieth Television enough to take the show into syndication later this year….
Market conditions are forcing John Malone to reassess Liberty Media’s plan to spin off DirecTV, the Wall Street Journal reports. Not doing the spinoff would be a disappointment to investors, the paper said. But Malone, who had to sell almost…