Children’s cable-television networks such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network appear to be in better shape than other TV networks, based on early budgets for this year’s kids’ upfront, Advertising Age reports. Early projections show the kids’ upfront market at flat…
The debate over whether and how Internet access should be available on television sets is playing out with chip makers and television manufacturers, with the former developing technology to allow it and the latter saying they don’t want it, the…
The Producers Guild of America’s inaugural Produced By Conference has tapped a lineup of veteran producers, with those from the television side represented by Marc Cherry of “Desperate Housewives” and Betsy Beers of “Grey’s Anatomy,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The…
Universal Sports is adding about 19 million households in 20 markets, bringing its distribution to almost 45 million homes, less than a year before the Vancouver Olympics, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The network, owned by NBC, will be carried on…
In the last two weeks, the CBS station in Fort Myers, Fla., has fielded about 1,500 calls and e-mails from viewers regarding the digital transition that will occur at 12:10 p.m. EST today for WINK-TV. For TVWeek’s comprehensive coverage of…
Young Broadcasting Inc., owner of San Francisco’s KRON-TV and nine other TV stations around the country, said Friday it has filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York, according to the Associated…
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