Hallmark Channel signed a deal with Google that allows the search giant to sell ads on the cable channel through its Google TV Ads platform. Google, which has been looking to use its targeting and analysis tools to move into…
NBC plans to run two-hour episodes of “The Apprentice” when the Donald Trump reality-competition show returns next year, TelevisionWeek reports. “Donald has always felt the boardrooms were too short, and I think he’s right,” executive producer Mark. Burnett tells TVWeek….
Fox Sports is planning to show its coverage of college football’s Bowl Championship Series in 3-D to viewers in theaters, USA Today reports. Fox Sports Chairman David Hill tells the paper he would also like to show NASCAR races in…
In the business plan it presented to Congress Tuesday, General Motors, one of the nation’s biggest TV advertisers, said it will cut marketing spending by $600 million by 2012 and support only four of its eight brands, Advertising Age reports….
A new book describes News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch as “‘a socially awkward, non-introspective, gossip-obsessed workaholic who has few friends and never seems to be surrounded by the brightest bulbs,” USA Today says. The “creepy” portrait is the result of…
VH1 has ordered eight episodes of a new reality series “Tough Love” from Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore’s production company Flower Films, Daily Variety reports. The series will follow a group of women picked to live in a house as…
Jonathan Miller, former head of AOL and USA Broadcasting, is talking to investors about raising money to buy all or part of Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reports. Miller, now with the investment company Velocity International, would need between $28…
WNBC-TV, NBC’s flagship station in New York, will undergo a series of technological upgrades in order to boost its content offerings, Daily Variety reports. The station is eyeing providing more news content to Web sites, taxi cabs, grocery stores and…
Getting paid for work on programming created for and appearing on the Web is a key point for the Screen Actors Guild in its labor dispute with the studios and networks. The Los Angeles Times takes a look at this…