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“30 Rock’s” Tina Fey edged out Robert Downey Jr. and Heath Ledger as the Associated Press’ entertainer of the year, the Hollywood Reporter says. Fey was recognized as the performer who had the “greatest impact on culture and entertainment in…
President George W. Bush has signed the DTV “nightlight” bill into law, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The White House confirmed the president signed the law, allowing stations that are able to keep broadcasting an analog signal after the Feb. 17…
A second Viacom cable network is planning its own ball at the inauguration of Barack Obama. BET Networks will join with America’s Promise Alliance, the nonprofit organization set up by former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his wife, Alma,…
Liberty Mutual and Subaru will continue as national sponsors of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” through the 2009 and 2010 seasons, WGBH Boston’s Sponsorship Group for Public Television announced. Sponsors will receive two on-air spots during each broadcast, direct-marketing opportunities at taping…
KOMU-TV, the University of Missouri’s NBC affiliate in Columbia, Mo., is launching a Spanish-language Web component for Latino readers in the mid-Missouri area, TVNewsday reports. This site, which will be a part of KOMU.com, will be called “KOMU 8 en…
The Motion Picture Association of America is suing three link aggregation sites that make it easier for visitors to view pirated movies and TV shows, MediaPost reports. The sites included in the suit are Campusist.com, Movies-on-Demand.tv and Sswarez.com, all of…
CBS News producer Mark Griffith was found dead in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment pn Thursday, TVNewser reports. Co-workers grew suspicious when Griffith, who had been with CBS for the last 20 years, missed some shifts at work without any notice,…
The roughly 570 attendees at the Screen Actors Guild’s Hollywood meeting Wednesday were more supportive of the union’s leadership and the January strike vote than the group’s New York members, the Hollywood Reporter says. Rob Schneider and former guild president…
A contestant on CBS’ “The Price Is Right” guessed the exact cost of the game show’s showcase prize, something that hasn’t happened on the program since 1970, the New York Post says. The guess of $23,743 won a male contestant…
Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly’s Sony-based television production company, Timberman/Beverly Productions, has set up most of its eight projects at cable networks, the Hollywood Reporter says. Timberman said working on cable allows them to think of projects they wouldn’t have…