Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is proposing the agency speed its response to independent networks’ complaints that satellite and cable providers treat their owned channels and independent ones differently. Such discrimination could help the NFL, sports team owners and…
Comedy Central has relaunched its Jokes.com Web site, which now offers and cross-references 5,000 standup comedy clips and 12,000 text-based jokes. The revamp of the site follows updates of the network’s other sites, including ComedyCentral.com, TheDailyShow.com, SouthParkStudios.com and ColbertNation.com. Together,…
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…