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Correspondent Steve Kroft talks to TVNewser about how “60 Minutes” managed to score Barack Obama’s first interview as president-elect. “We went and started working on a profile before he declared his candidacy,” Kroft tells TVNewser. “I can remember the first…
Discovery Communications has signed on as a client of TRA’s Media TRAnalytics, the 370,000 household, single-source database that matches second-by-second information from home set-top boxes to actual product purchases, DMNews reports. “What TRA has is really interesting for us and…
Apparently you can break barriers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue but not at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Entertainment Weekly discusses the ho-hum selection of Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins to the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” which leaves them curious as to…
“Saturday Night Live” alum Maya Rudolph will make an appearance on NBC’s “Kath & Kim,” TV Guide reports. Rudolph will play a spiritual guide who helps Phil, played by John Michael Higgins, to lose weight. Rudolph’s character also becomes a…
MSNBC’s Dan Abrams will make a cameo as himself in a new film that lifts heavily from the Valerie Plame-Judith Miller saga titled “Nothing But the Truth,” Portfolio reports. Abrams joins an all-star cast that includes Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon,…
Cable operators issued a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking the commission not to establish a uniform price for attaching to utility poles, Broadcasting & Cable says. In the letter, cable operators said broadband providers should pay the same…
Comcast Corp. has put in the successful bid to buy the San Francisco Bay Area’s Alameda Power & Telecom, Multichannel News reports. Comcast will pay $15 million for the system, which has 9,500 video customers and 6,600 data customers in…
Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” co-host Megyn Kelly’s biggest fan is none other than singer-songwriter John Mayer, TVNewser reports. At a recent event, Mayer told Kelly via the FNC cameras, “I love the Kathleen Turner circa 1989 rasp. I love…
To promote its six original holiday movies this season, Hallmark Channel is teaming up with its local ad sales affiliates by giving away a free trip to Turkey, Multichannel News reports. The six-day/five-night Istanbul excursion includes roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations,…
A minute-long promo for ABC’s “Lost,” to be aired during next week’s “Grey’s Anatomy” episode, will feature a new song from rock band the Fray, the Hollywood Reporter says. The promo, which will feature not only the track but parts…