OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has appointed Meredith Momoda vice president of integrated marketing. Ms. Momoda will be responsible for product integration, in addition to acting as the primary liaison between OWN’s advertising sales, marketing and programming departments. She will…
Disney and ESPN Media Networks and the NCTC have made a multiyear agreement that will provide NCTC cable operators with access to HD channels. The deal includes access to programming from ESPNU, ESPNU HD, ESPN2 HD, ESPNews HD, ABC Family…
Circuit City will close 155 U.S. stores, which employ about 17% of the company’s domestic workforce, as part of an effort to free up cash, the Associated Press reports. The No. 2 U.S. electronics retailer after Best Buy also will…
Democrats, poised for congressional gains and a possible presidential win, may revive the Fairness Doctrine, which would force broadcasters to give equal time to each side of a controversial subject, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing some statements by conservative…
Four Kansas television stations will offer pay-per-view broadcasts of live video streams of two high school football championship games on Nov. 29, Broadcasting & Cable reports. GrandStadium TV will charge $9.95. Stations in Kansas City, Topeka and Joplin-Pittsburgh have all…
Comedy Central will use New York’s BLVD/Crash Mansion nightclub as a live venue to preview and showcase some of its on-screen performers, Daily Variety reports. The venue, which the network will use similarly to Los Angeles’ Comedy Central Stage, will…
Teenagers who watch racy television shows are more likely to be involved with pregnancies, the Associated Press reports, citing a Rand Corp. study. Teenage boys and girls who regularly watched shows such as “Friends,” “That ’70s Show” and “Sex and…
About 20 new “Peanuts” Webisodes have been created and will be sold on Apple’s iTunes service, the Associated Press reports. The three- to four-minute clips, created by Warner Bros. Motion Comics and done with the blessing of creator Charles Schulz’s…
Cox Television President Andy Fisher, who has been a strong voice for local TV stations on the national broadcasting and regulatory landscapes, is retiring at the end of the year from the company he joined in 1984. He will be…