Akamai, which makes Internet content-delivery products, will acquire online-advertising network Acerno for $95 million, MediaPost’s Online Media Daily reports. The acquisition will give Akamai access to Acerno’s collection of information from almost 400 online retail Web sites and give it…
National spot-advertising spending, excluding non-core categories such as political ads, will fall 14% this year, with total ad spending rising as little as 1%, TVNewsday reports. Last year, the Television Bureau of Advertising forecast 2008 spot-advertising spending to rise about…
News-format changes WNBC-TV began enacting five months ago have caused many longtime employees to depart NBC’s New York affiliate while causing others to question the future of the network, the New York Observer reports, citing employees it didn’t identify. WNBC…
Alec Baldwin will join Robert Osborne as the new co-host of Turner Classic Movies’ “The Essentials.” He will begin his co-hosting duties in March, introducing each week’s movies. Mr. Baldwin previously participated in TCM’s “Guest Programmer” series and hosted the…
Online television network ManiaTV slashed 20 jobs, representing nearly 30% of the fledgling Web studio’s work force, the company announced today. The layoffs come as part of a reorganization at ManiaTV under which the company will rely on third-party producers…
BET acquired the first network TV window rights to three films from The Weinstein Co. Two of the films are about to be released theatrically: “Soul Men,” starring Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mack, and “Hurricane Season,” featuring…
Even after adding in delayed viewing by people using digital video recorders, the audience for programs on broadcast TV is getting smaller again this season, the Wall Street Journal reports. Prime time viewership on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the…
Fox News has signed Bill O’Reilly to host his cable news show for another four years, the Washington Post reports. O’Reilly tells the Post he decided to put himself through more “attacks and smears” by extending his tour at Fox….
Sumner Redstone, who has been forced by the stock market downturn to sell shares in Viacom and CBS, is seeking a divorce from his wife after 5½ years of marriage, the Wall Street Journal says. A prenuptial agreement calls for…
ABC picked up drama “Private Practice” for a full season, ordering nine more episodes from ABC Studios, TelevisionWeek says. The order come as the series’ ratings has been sinking, although it wins its timeslot and tops Wednesday nights among young…