Entertainment Studios tapped Crawford Communications to transmit the six high-definition television networks, including Cars.TV and Pets.TV, that are set to be aired on Verizon’s FiOS service, TVNewsday reports. Comedy.TV, MyDestination.TV, ES.TV and Recipe.TV also are part of the group of…
Comedian Kathy Griffin will be paid more than $2 million by Random House’s Ballantine unit for her memoir, the New York Observer reports, citing three people familiar with the process that it didn’t identify. Ms. Griffin stars in the Bravo…
MLB Network will broadcast 61 spring training games, including 45 live games. Each game will be a simulcast of the local broadcast. The network’s spring training broadcast schedule kicks off Feb. 25 with San Francisco at Cleveland live from Goodyear…
Nike is commemorating the return of Tiger Woods to the professional golf tour after his knee surgery by debuting a television-advertising campaign called “The Good Life” tomorrow on ESPN and the Golf Channel, Advertising Week reports. The one-minute spot also…
Jim Murphy, executive producer of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” said anchor Diane Sawyer “better” extend her contract when it expires this year, calling her “the most talented anchor in the business,” TVNewser reports. The show, rated No. 2 in its…
Animal Planet will use semi-animated visual graphics similar to those in the films “300” and “Sin City” in its new series “Dark Days in Monkey City,” which features monkeys living in the ruins of the Sri Lankan city of Polonnaruwa,…
Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute
In the clearest sign yet that The CW will live to fight another season, the network has given early renewals to a half-dozen existing series, including Superman drama “Smallville.” The CW President Dawn Ostroff began telephoning executives at Warner Bros….
The CW is feeling groovy about Ashton Kutcher’s “The Beautiful Life,” greenlighting a pilot for the project and bringing on “Swingtown” and “Jericho” scribes Mike Kelley and Carol Barbee to serve as executive producers. “Life,” which has been in development…
World Wrestling Entertainment had an 8% increase in revenue last year despite a fourth-quarter decline in sales in 2008, Broadcasting & Cable reports. 2008 results were helped by a television-rights agreement with MyNetworkTV for WWE’s “Smackdown” programming, B&C says. Pay-per-view…