The Travel Channel’s first roundtable special will feature “No Reservations” host Anthony Bourdain chatting about food and wine with a group of New York City friends, Multichannel News reports. “At the Table With Anthony Bourdain” is set to air Oct….
Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett upgraded Dish Network stock Friday to “market outperform,” while at the same time warning that the company could be crippled if a judge orders it to shutdown 4 million set-top boxes in the TiVo case,…
Sumner Redstone will sell $400 million of his National Amusement Inc. non-voting stock in Viacom and CBS in order to lower the company’s debts and adhere to credit agreement covenants, Reuters reports. The announcement was made shortly after Viacom said…
YouTube will begin streaming full-length, advertising-supported TV shows and other long-form content from the CBS library as part of a shift in strategy, MediaWeek reports. The CBS deal includes older network shows such as “Star Trek,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” soap…
Television writer Seth MacFarlane’s Web series “Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy” has earned more than 14 million views in its first three weeks online, according to the show’s backer, Media Rights Capital. MRC negotiated the deal for the online show to…
Cable networks are premiering more original shows in the fall, putting them in direct competition with the broadcast networks’ fall lineups, Reuters reports. FX has had success in the past with fall airings of “Nip/Tuck” and “The Shield,” while recent…
Stock for every major media and entertainment company fell to their lowest numbers in at least a year on Thursday due to the current economic crisis, MarketWatch reports. Among the companies seeing declines are Time Warner Inc., which hit a…
Moderator Bob Schieffer promises to call out the presidential candidates if they do not answer the questions presented during their final debate on Oct. 15, the Hollywood Reporter says. During the vice presidential debate between Sen. Joe Biden and Gov….
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is spending just under $2 million for 1/2 hour advertisements on CBS and NBC, according to network documents. The Obama campaign spent $891,250 for the half hour on NBC, a price that was discounted to…
Viacom said it expects lower earnings growth than it had forecast earlier in the year. The company, which owns cable networks including MTV, VH1, BET, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, said its earnings growth for the year will be in the…