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Monthly Archives : February 2009

Bill Cella Joins TiVo Board

Bill Cella, the former head of Interpublic’s Magna Global and founder of The Cella Group, has joined the board of TiVo, MediaPost reports. The move comes as the DVR company is seeking to convince ad companies that it wants to…

Hef’s Ex Bridget Has Rough Time on ‘Beaches’

Bridget Marquart, formerly one of E!’s “Girls Next Door” has been accumulating aches as pains while shooting Travel Channel’s “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches,” USA Today says. She’s stepped on a sea urchin, nearly crashed while parasailing, and been mobbed by paparazzi,…

Fox’s Chernin Would Exit Rich

Peter Chernin, president of Fox parent News Corp., would be owed about $40 million in deferred pay and pension funds as well as other perks if he were to leave the company after his contract runs out in June, Business…

Couric Talks A-Rod, ’60 Minutes’

CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric said she’d like to do more features for “60 Minutes” and is “disappointed” that baseball star Alex Rodriguez lied to her in an on-air interview about his steroid use, the Daily Beast reports. Couric…

Producers Issue ‘Final Offer’ to SAG

After three days of talks with the Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood’s producers have issued a “last, best and final offer” to actors that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says contains significant concessions. “The AMPTP made these enhancements…

NBA All-Star Game Ratings Jump 20%

Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game broadcast on TNT attracted a 20% larger television audience than last year’s game, Daily Variety reports. For the weekend’s All-Star events from Phoenix, overall ratings rose 26% from a year earlier, the newspaper says. —Danny King

Gospel Debuts Blind Boys’ Concert

Gospel Music Channel will air footage of a Blind Boys of Alabama concert from New Orleans the day before the Blind Boys new CD “Live in New Orleans” is released on Feb. 24, Multichannel News reports. The group, recipients of…

Comcast Adds Men’s Channel MavTV

U.S. cable leader Comcast will carry men’s channel MavTV in high definition, though it hasn’t disclosed when the network will debut, Web site TVPredictions.com reports. Charter, Cablevision and Verizon’sFiOS already air the channel, which features sports, gaming programs and women,…

DTV Switch: Okla. City Hit With Surge of Help Calls

John Rossi, general manager of CW-affiliate KOCB and Fox affiliate KOKH in Oklahoma City, said he was feeling tired today after his station fielded nearly 900 calls over the past two days regarding his stations’ switch to digital TV signals….

‘Ross the Intern’ Moves to TheInsider.com

Ross Mathews has come onboard as a celebrity interviewer for TheInsider.com. Mr. Mathews got his break on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” where he filmed segments and did celebrity interviews for seven years as “Ross the Intern.” Mr. Mathews…