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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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,…
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 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…