Charter Communications, which had been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, said Thursday it had reached an agreement on a financial restructuring with a group of its debt holders, and will enter Chapter 11 on or before April 1. The…
The White Stripes will be the final musical guest on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” PitchforkMedia.com reports. The band has a strong history with the show, having performed for an entire week in 2003, the site says. O’Brien’s final episode…
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s U.S. chief creative officer Bob Lachky is leaving the company, the Wall Street Journal reports. Lachky was the main advertising executive behind some of Budweiser’s most recognizable ad campaigns, including the “Whassup” spots and commercials featuring party dog…
Fox affiliates will meet on April 21 during this year’s National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, TVNewsday reports. Fox’s meeting will bring over 100 TV executives to town for the NAB show, the site says. Other organizations that…
Pioneer said it will close its television division, withdrawing from the market by March 2010, after a slump in global electronics sales prompted the Tokyo-based company to widen its annual loss forecast, Bloomberg News reports. The company will cut 10,000…
Ryan Seacrest originally auditioned for his part as judge on “American Idol,” the New York Post says. “You were so bright and perky and we were desperate,” former “Idol” executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said on Seacrest’s Los Angeles-based radio show…
Nadya Suleyman, the 33-year-old Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last month, is considering offers to star in her own reality series, appear in a documentary and write a book, according to one of her publicists, Entertainment Weekly…
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn bought more than 1 million shares in Lionsgate, bringing his stake to 10.5% of the company, whose stock Icahn said is “undervalued,” Daily Variety reports. The purchase came after Lionsgate lost $93.4 million in the fiscal…
Google says TV programmers can boost viewing by paying for a search ad link, MediaPost reports. When TV networks buy such an ad, which usually appears at the top or right of “organic” results, it boosts the likelihood that viewers…
A television remake of “The Day of the Triffids” has cast Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Eddie Izzard and Jason Priestley in the two-part drama, the Hollywood Reporter says. In the show, which will air on BBC1…