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TBS will join with Def Jam Records and R&B singer Chrisette Michele to promote Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne,” Media Daily News reports. The partnership will include a new song by Michele to be featured on-air and in ancillary promos,…
Senior ABC News producer Bill Arp is leaving the network, TVNewser reports, citing an internal ABC e-mail. Arp has been a producer for more than 30 years on “World News Now” and “America This Morning,” the Web site says. —Vlada…
Turner Broadcasting System will launch its fourth pay TV channel in Germany with a roster of American series, Daily Variety reports. The shows expected to air on TNT Serie beginning in January include “ER,” “Smallville,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Monk,” “King…
Composer Earle H. Hagen died of natural causes on May 26 in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Daily Variety reports. Hagen composed music for more than 3,000 individual shows and wrote the theme songs for “The Andy Griffith Show,” “The Dick Van…
Ad-supported cable channels recorded a 9% increase in viewers during the September-to-May broadcast season and a 48% share of the total TV audience in April, the New York Times reports. The History Channel, AMC, USA and Fox News all posted…
Soap star and former “Dancing With the Stars” contestant Cameron Mathison will host the 35th annual Daytime Emmy Awards alongside “The View” host Sherri Shepherd, the Associated Press reports. The ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC from Hollywood’s Kodak…
Former congressman J.C. Watts is planning to launch an all-news network targeting the African American community, the New York Post reports. Tentatively called Black Television News Channel, the network is slated for a early 2009 launch and already has a…
Tribune Co. relaunched Superstation WGN as WGN America on Monday, Mediaweek reports. The relaunch includes a new slogan—”TV You Can’t Ignore”—and a new logo, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman
Ibra Morales, Telemundo’s station group president, is leaving the company, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Morales’ contract expires at the end of this month and will not be renewed, the newspaper says. Telemundo President Don Browne will assume his duties until…
A announcement from Katie Couric, teased on “Today,” is said to be a three-network cancer fund-raiser for September, Broadcasting & Cable reports, citing unnamed sources. Couric chose to make the announcement on NBC’s “Today,” her former place of employment, rather…