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Daily Archives : Nov 24, 2008

Fox Gives Feresten Six-Week Tryout

Fox’s “Talkshow With Spike Feresten” will begin airing weeknights at 11 p.m. for a six-week trial run beginning Jan. 17, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The show will increase in length from 30 minutes to an hour. Fox wants to know…

Fox Cable Networks Promotes Fang

Fox Cable Networks has named Jessica Fang VP of national accounts, Multichannel News reports. Fang, a six-year veteran at FCN, has been instrumental in some of the national accounts team’s most complex deals, including ones with Comcast, Cox and Insight,…

Live Sports Streams Growing

Live streaming of sports is all the rage as it provides new opportunities for fans, networks, leagues, Internet providers and advertisers, Multichannel News reports. Networks are given another medium to cover more sports while fans are given better access and…

Comcast Disbanding CN8

Comcast’s regional network CN8 will disband by year’s end, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Comcast will replace it with the Comcast Network, a new network that will focus on the Philadelphia/Pittsburgh and Washington/Baltimore regions, Broadcasting & Cable says. Some 300 CN8…

Overbrook, Science Channel Team for ‘Young Scientist’

Overbrook Entertainment and Science Channel are partnering to produce “Young Scientist Challenge.” The two-hour program, which is scheduled to air Jan. 18, follows the joy and drama of the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge and its top 10 finalists….

Crackle Launches New Season Next Week

Sony-owned online video destination Crackle.com said it will launch its new season next week with shows featuring such familiar faces as Neil Patrick Harris, John Stamos and Christina Applegate. The lineup for the winter season includes new series “Anytime With…

Google Improves Search Technology for TV Ad Platform

Google said it instituted new search technology today for the Google TV Ads Platform that will let advertisers make their TV spots more targeted. Google TV Ads is the search giant’s foray into the TV advertising business that lets marketers…

Fine Living Finds ‘Wingman’

Fine Living Network will premiere the original dating series “Wingman” on Feb. 10. The half-hour show follows dating-challenged men and women, who will be guided by standup comic Michael Somerville. Mr. Somerville is also a relationship columnist, penning Glamour’s monthly…

O’Donnell, Vieira Talk Walters, ‘View’

Rosie O’Donnell took her feud with Barbara Walters and “The View” to the set of NBC’s “Today” this morning in an interview with another “View” alum, Meredith Vieira, the Los Angeles Times reports. O’Donnell, who was on the show to…

Obama ‘New Best Friend’ of Sports Marketers

After submitting a video message for Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and telling “60 Minutes” he’d support an effort to get the BCS to change to a playoff post-season format, Advertising Age is calling Barack Obama “sports…