With the digital TV transition now 100 days away, the government is claiming some success with its coupon program for digital television converters. In connection with a DTV news conference today sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters, Meredith Baker,…
Comedian Sarah Silverman’s “The Great Schlep” video, which urged young voters to schlep to Florida to convince their Jewish grandparents to vote for Barack Obama for president, earned more than 15 million views online. The video is an example of…
Internet television network Revision3 tripled its revenue in 2008 and also signed more than 40 new deals this year with content providers including Hulu, YouTube, MySpace and Yahoo, Revision3 announced today. The news of the company’s growth comes just two…
Sumner Redstone’s daughter, Shari, resigned as chairwoman of Midway Games, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move could indicate that the family will sell Midway in order to reduce the debt load that forced it to sell some of its…
Fox’s scheduling guru says moving “House” and “Bones” is part of a plan to firm up the network’s perennially weak fourth quarter ratings, TelevisionWeek reports. “If these moves work, it sets us up nicely for next fall,” says Preston Beckman…
NBC’s “Knight Rider” is retooling its creative direction and ejecting series regulars Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Yancey Arias and Bruce Davison beyond the show’s initial 13-episodes, the Hollywood Reporter says. “We’re moving away from the terrorist-of-the-week formula and closer to the…
Showtime and the BBC are teaming up for an updated series retelling the story of “Camelot,” Daily Variety reports. The project comes from “The Tudors’” Michael Hirst and Morgan O’Sullivan. Hirst will serve as writer as well as executive producer…
CBS has signed Michael Rappaport to a development deal to create, produce and star in an hour-long drama for the network, the Hollywood Reporter says. The untitled project about New York social workers will be produced by Denis Leary and…
Comcast’s top fundraiser held a dinner last month for presidential candidate Barack Obama that generated $6.1 million in campaign contributions, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. How much that will help Comcast, which is anti-union and on the opposite side of the…
Seam McManus, president of CBS News and CBS Sports, tells TelevisionWeek he thinks the network’s third place newscasts are getting better. But he’s perplexed about why Katie Couric’s ratings haven’t started to climb. “I think we’ve done such a good…