After eliminating about 20 jobs in late October, Web studio ManiaTV has hired six new employees, according to a report in The Washington Post. Two of the new hires are replacements in VP posts for business development and sales, the…
Fox Business Network is expected to announce this afternoon a new distribution deal, representing some 2 million digital subscribers to Cox Cable in several major markets, TelevisionWeek has learned. The deal, which takes effect Jan. 1, will raise the 14-month-old…
A House Energy and Commerce Committee report released Tuesday concludes that the Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Kevin Martin has a record of “egregious abuses of power, suppression of information and manipulation of data,” in the words of the chairman…
NBC’s groundbreaking deal to move Jay Leno to 10 p.m. weeknights promises to radically alter the rules of prime time, even as it promises significant ramifications for numerous other aspects of the TV business. Already reeling from NBC’s Monday massacre…
Sony said it is cutting 8,000 jobs, representing 4% of its global employees, to cut costs, the Associated Press reports. The job cuts are all in the electronics sector for the company, which is also closing several plants and cutting…
Leo W. Brennan has been named chief operations officer for Cox Communications Inc., the company announced. Mr. Brennan had been senior VP and general manager of Cox’s cable system in Las Vegas. In his new post, he will be responsible…
Jay Leno will be staying at NBC after he finishes his tour on the “Tonight Show,” TelevisionWeek reports. The network has signed Leno to a new deal that gives him a 10 p.m. show weeknights, keeping him from competing in…
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…