MTV Networks has partnered with widget advertising company Clearspring Technologies, Adweek reports. MTV plans to use Clearspring’s tools to help push various ad-supported widgets onto blogs and social-networking sites while tracking the widgets’ performance, Adweek says. MTV hopes this new…
Barack Obama’s historic win on Election Day has prompted many a collector scrambling for keepsakes of the election. CNN is reaping the benefits of this mad rush for collectibles with sales of a T-shirt emblazoned with the news network’s headline…
“Lost” has found a new time slot. ABC announced on its Web site Friday that the island mystery will return to Wednesday nights next year, airing at 9 p.m. The show will kick off its penultimate season Jan. 21 at…
Republican presidential nominee John McCain will make his first post-election late-night appearance with Jay Leno. The Arizona senator will be a guest on “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday, Nov. 11, in honor of Veterans Day. Joining Sen. McCain will be…
Warner Horizon Television has named Drew Tappon senior creative executive of alternative programming. He will be responsible for developing original unscripted programming for broadcast and cable networks, in addition to managing current programming. Mr. Tappon previously was senior VP of…
NBC News is going to contribute an anchor, MSNBC’s Alex Witt, and a lot of NBC News content to cable channel Retirement Living TV’s “Daily Cafe” as the noon weekday hour starts its third season Tuesday. Continuing with the show…
The playing field is changing in Congress for broadcasters and media companies for the second time in a week. West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd is stepping down as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which likely will lead to the…
Up 47% this year, the growth of local interactive advertising is expected to stall considerably next year, a report by Borrell Associates found. MediaWeek reports that after growing relatively quickly over the last few years, the report predicts only an…
Citing the state of the economy, Lionsgate Entertainment gave pink slips to 17 employees Friday morning at its Santa Monica, Calif.-based independent movie and television studio today, the Los Angeles Times reports. All divisions of its production and distribution divisions…
Television station owner Gray Television could face delisting after being notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it had failed to meet one of its listing standards, TVNewsday reports. Because its common stock share price and average share price…