Chris Berman will interview John McCain and Barack Obama during ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” on Nov. 3. Mr. Berman will speak to both presidential candidates via satellite from the ESPN studios in Bristol, Conn., during halftime of the game between…
Kerry Knott, a Republican who heads Comcast’s Washington, D.C., offices, has stepped down, Multichannel News reports. Knott, who will become a “strategic counsel” for the cable company and a consultant to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, departs less than…
WPP Group, which reported higher quarterly earnings this week, says a global recession that cuts advertising spending may last as long as three years, Adweek reports. The current downturn may last “significantly” longer than the one created by the Internet…
MTVu plans to broaden its suicide-prevention public affairs program “Half of Us,” which won a Peabody Award for journalistic excellence, Multichannel News says. The program will make new content available starting today. —Danny King
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is closing the advertising-spending gap with Democrat Barack Obama in states up for grabs in next week’s election, including Florida and Ohio, the Associated Press reports. In order to free up funds, McCain has cut…
The CW ordered another episode of “Gossip Girl” two weeks after ordering two additional shows and bringing the total to 25 episodes, Entertainment Weekly reports. The network has also ordered two more episodes each of “90210” and “One Tree Hill,”…
Movie studios and a USC-based nonprofit group are working on a standard for delivering digital content to broadcasters, the Hollywood Reporter says. The new standard, in addition to the Digital Cinema Initiative specifications already discussed by studios, is referred to…
Automaker Infiniti will be the exclusive sponsor of the 15th season of Bravo’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” hosted by James Lipton, the network said Thursday. The series premieres Monday with Goldie Hawn as its first guest. For the new season,…
More households tuned in to see Sen. Barack Obama’s half-hour political advertisement on NBC than on any of the other major broadcast networks that ran the ad last night. NBC drew a 6.7 rating/11 share in households of 56 metered…