While CBS expects the broadcast industry to bounce back after the recession ends, NBC Universal says the broadcast business needs more radical surgery to survive, Advertisng Age reports. Top executives from the two companies spoke to an investor conference on…
Amid the blizzard of pink slips at media companies, Tina Brown of The Daily Beast wonders if the right people are being separated from their jobs. Who should be going? “The feckless zombies at the head of corporate bureaucracies who…
TBS has ordered a presentation for a half-hour late-night comedy that follows three grown men who, as in the 2003 Will Ferrell comedy “Old School,” yearn for the easier life of a frat house, the Hollywood Reporter says. The project…
Most chief marketing officers at the retailers are cutting their advertising budgets during the fourth quarter, Advertising Age reports. A survey by BDO Seidman found that 57% of the CMO plan to spend the majority of budgets on print; 21%…
About 400 members of the Screen Actors Guild who met Monday in Hollywood endorsed the group’s push to authorize a strike, Daily Variety reports. SAG will hold two more meeings, one in New York next Monday and another in Hollywood…
The Dolan family’s stake in Cablevision Systems dropped to 21.2% from 23.8%, Dow Jones reports. One member of the family settled a 1999 transaction by giving 8 million Class A shares in the cable operator to Bear Stearns International, the…
Viacom Inc. CEO Philippe Dauman said he expects strong prices when the owner of cable channels such as Comedy Central negotiates new carriage deals with operators, the Hollywood Reporter says. Dauman, who spoke yesterday at the UBS Global Media and…
Singer Britney Spears has been invited back to “Good Morning America” for a sit-down interview with Diane Sawyer following her lip-synced performance on the ABC morning news program last week, the
“Baywatch” producer Walter Brown is searching for an actress to star in a pilot of a show set in New Zealand, the New York Post reports. Brown and fellow “Baywatch” producer Greg Bonnan are considering a storyline about three adventurous…