YouTube is pursuing a variety of strategies in an effort to turn its market dominance into revenue, according to Jordan Hoffner, the video Web site’s director of content partnerships, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The executive detailed those strategies at a…
CNN correspondent and anchor Miles O’Brien is leaving the network as it closes its science, space, environment and technology unit, TVNewser reports. O’Brien has been the news network’s chief technology and environmental correspondent since April 2007. The network says it…
Josh Howard, VP of long-form for CNBC, announced that he will leave the cable network when his contract expires next week, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The announcement comes just one day after the unit that has been overseen by Howard…
NBC Universal has begun cutting staff amid a faltering economy, people familiar with the matter said. So far, approximately 30 staffers in the advertising sales department have been told they are losing their jobs, said the sources, who requested anonymity….
Cox Enterprises is forming a new organization, Cox Media Group Inc., which will bring together Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio into a single unit beginning in January, TVNewsday reports. The businesses that will make up the group will…
The annual report card on network television diversity, put out by the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition, finds that the networks have made strides in the past year, Variety reports. However, as in past years, the ninth annual report by the coalition…
NBC will bid farewell to “ER” with a two-hour finale on March 12 at 9 p.m., the network said in its mid-season schedule announcement. New series “Kings” will start with a two-hour premiere March 19 at 9 p.m. before it…
WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, a Dispatch Broadcast Group-owned CBS affiliate, dominated the market during November sweeps, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Each of the station’s news reports won its time slot, according to the newspaper, while CBS network programming also beat…
Fox News Channel’s firm grip on the cable news crown continued in the November sweeps, which was chock full of economic, political and terrorism news that boosted ratings across the board. Ten of the top 15 cable-news programs for the…
Debi Faubion, the longest-serving television news anchor in the Charlotte market, has announced that she will retire from her job with WSOC-TV when her contract runs out in June, the Charlotte Observer reports. Faubion has been an anchor at the…