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Daily Archives : Sep 24, 2009

The Ultimate in 360-degree Media: Watching TV You Want to See Even if Your are Continents Away From Home

Here’s the premise of this fascinating Reuters article: "So you’re moving from the United States to another country and the most important thing you can think of is how you can watch the new season of "American Idol"? "You’re not…

New NAB President Smith Says Broadcasting is ‘Higher Calling’

The new NAB President, former Senator Gordon Smith, in his first address after being named to head the association, told an NAB Radio Show audience that broadcasting is a “higher calling,” B&C reports. Smith, once a Republican senator from Oregon, takes…

CW Orders Nine More Scripts of ‘Vampire Diaries’; Picks Up ‘One Tree Hill’ for Full Season

The CW has ordered nine more scripts of  "Vampire Diaries," reports Variety. The network aldo gave a full-season order to its seventh-season drama “One Tree Hill,” after first ordering just 13 episodes this year, Variety says. The network also added to an order for the remake…

Tennis Channel, Cablevision’s Come to Terms (They Couldn’t of Done this a Month Ago so we Coulda Seen the Open?)

Tennis Channel said it will make its programming available to Cablevision’s sports tier, ending its attempt to get a better channel position in the New York area, reports Multichannel News. A long stalemate between the two over where the channel…

Some of You are Thinking it, So We’ll Say it: What’s up With Oprah, of All People, Giving Airtime to MacKenzie Phillips Saying She Had Incest With Her Dad? Is it a Ratings Ploy?

Being journalists, people whisper things to us that they might not otherwise say out loud. In the last 24-hours those whisperings to us have become a loud roar: Should Oprah, perhaps the most well-respected and influential person on TV today,…

Mark Burnett Tapped to Produce Next ‘People’s Choice Awards’

“Survivor” producer Mark Burnett will turn his attention next to reinvigorating "The People’s Choice Awards," the Associated Press reports. He said that the 36-year-old show, which will air live in January, in the past has “tried to jam in too…

‘True Blood’ Meets ’24’

Stephen Root, who played Eddie Gautier, a vampire crazy about Lafayette in HBO’s "True Blood," has joined the cast of  "24" for a multiepisode appearance,  reports The Hollywood Reporter. Ah ha! So next season must have something to do with Jack saving us from vampires! …

It’s Official (we guess): Group Says Most Influential Word From TV in 2009 is…’ObamaVision’

Using a proprietary algorithm, a Texas-based company says "ObamaVision" is the most influential word from TV this year, Reuters reports. The company, Global Language Monitor, released  what it calls its list of top ten telewords–the most influential words from TV– to…