Broadcasters and regulators have been told by members of Congress to start finessing digital TV transition education campaigns to warn viewers that they may need a new antenna or to adjust their old one, Broadcasting & Cable says. Members of…
The Television Critics Association’s next trip to Los Angeles is scheduled for Jan.7-16, Daily Variety reports. The group will convene for 10 days at the Universal Hilton for its semiannual press tour. Three days will be devoted to cable, one…
NBC has pulled a skit featured in last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” from its Web sites NBC.com and Hulu.com, Advertising Age reports. The skit, of a fake C-SPAN news report about the Wall Street bailout, featured former Golden West Financial…
Tonight’s debate between Sen. John McCain and Barack Obama will be different from the previous two in this election, the Hollywood Reporter says. The two presidential candidates will meet in a town hall-style debate to be moderated by NBC’s Tom…
The National Association of Television Program Executives extended President and CEO Rick Feldman’s contract by three years. The new contract will keep Mr. Feldman at NATPE until the spring of 2012. “We’ve evolved from a domestic syndication show to a…
The cable companies that own In Demand have decided to close down their high-definition service Mojo HD, In Demand confirmed Tuesday. The shutdown affects about 10 million subscribers. Some cable systems have already begun notifying viewers that Mojo will cease…
The sun is setting on NBC Weather Plus, the 4-year-old digital joint venture between NBC and affiliated local stations, which programmed the 24/7 local weather service on their digital channels. The service was one of the first digital projects conceived…
Young men 18 to 34 are receptive to online ads and can recall about half of the ads they see on the Web, according to research released today from Break Media. The company found that 47% of online men in…
PBS is coming to a gaming platform near you under a deal announced today in which several of the network’s programs will be available for download on Microsoft’s Xbox 360. PBS said programs including “Wired Science,” “NOVA,” “Ken Burns’ Jazz,”…
Telemundo and Ford are teaming up on a multiplatform campaign designed to get viewers more involved in the election process, MediaWeek reports. Ford is sponsoring Telemundo’s commercial-free coverage of the debates and is featured in the network’s tagged vignettes, snipes…