President-elect Barack Obama today named two academics to head his transition team looking at issues and personnel for the Federal Communications Commission. Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan law professor of communications law, and Ken Werbach, a Wharton School assistant…
“Forbes SportsMoney,” a special examining some of sports’ business aspects, bows tonight on the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network, Multichannel News reports. The half-hour special, which starts at 10:30 p.m. ET, will be hosted by YES host Bob Lorenz and…
The Television Bureau of Advertising and its board think the basis for local advertising buying and planning should be consistent with the standards used by networks and national advertisers. Therefore, the TVB has notified members and clients that it supports…
Anderson Cooper visited “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” last night and talked about, amongst many things, his love for Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” his upcoming awards show “CNN Heroes” and those darned CNN Election Night holograms, TVNewser…
The Producers Guild of America is honoring “The Sopranos” creator David Chase with its Norman Lear Achievement in Television Award, Daily Variety reports. The award will be presented at the 20th annual PGA Awards Jan. 24 at the Hollywood Palladium….
President-elect Barack Obama plans to take the Democrats’ traditional weekly radio address to the Web beginning this week, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Obama plans to record the weekly address Fridays on video and audio, which will be posted on the…
The Federal Communications Commission under Barack Obama as president is expected to be more influential than ever, according to high-tech leaders and analysts, the Washington Post reports. Promises made by the president-elect of an “open Internet” could change the telecommunications…
NBC’s “Meet the Press” has launched an online feature offering a behind-the-scenes look at the show’s road trips during the election, TVNewser reports. Three vignettes from stops in Denver, Waterloo, Iowa, and Columbia, S.C., contain interviews with Sens. John McCain…
According to data from Nielsen Media Research, CBS is the most-watched network midway through the November sweeps, Mediaweek reports. The network is ahead of its closest competitor, ABC, by 470,000 total viewers. Among younger adults, however, ABC comes out on…
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., plans to propose a bill in January that would prohibit Internet providers from blocking Web content, Reuters reports. Sen. Dorgan believes the law would be essential in preventing telephone and cable companies from discriminating against Internet…