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Nielsen has closed on its purchase of IAG Research for $225 million, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Nielsen hopes to combine its ratings and demographics statistics with the consumer-engagement researcher’s psychographic information in order to help advertisers better understand how viewers…
Daphne Zuniga and Greg Evigan have joined the cast of the Hallmark Channel TV movie “Mail Order Bride,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Zuniga will play a woman who pretends to be a mail-order bride in order to escape from a…
ABC has tapped Mike Fresco to direct his brother Victor Fresco’s untitled comedy presentation, the Hollywood Reporter says. The single-camera office comedy revolves around a moral guy trying to do the right thing in an amoral world, the newspaper notes….
VH1 has purchased reruns of ABC’s “The Bachelor” to repurpose on the cable channel, Daily Variety reports. More than 130 hours of the program will begin airing on VH1 the first week of June, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
The National Association of Broadcasters has asked the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to put DTV-to-analog converter coupon requests from Wilmington, N.C., first, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The NAB is worried that the NTIA is getting swamped with backlogged requests…
The American Association of People With Disabilities and the Consumer Federation of America, as well as several other groups, argue that the National Telecommunications & Information Administration’s digital converter boxes and all digital televisions, except for Sony models, will become…
Music Choice’s on-demand network will join Cablevision Systems Corp.’s lineup of free-on-demand programming, Multichannel News reports. The channel will be available to iO TV digital-cable customers, the newspaper says. Music Choice will reach 35 million on-demand households with the addition…
Ohio cable operator Buckeye CableSystem has agreed to carry ION Media Network’s digital suite and renew ION Television Network, Multichannel News reports. ION also recently made carriage deals with SES Americom’s IP-Prime and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative. —Vlada Gelman
“The Full Monty” star Robert Carlyle has been cast in Fox’s “24” prequel movie, TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello reports, citing unnamed sources. Carlyle will play Jack’s mentor in Africa in the two-hour telefilm due to air Nov. 23, the magazine…
The penultimate episode of “American Idol” beat the competition on Wednesday with 24.3 million viewers, the Hollywood Reporter says. The program earned a 9.0 rating/22 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary estimates by Nielsen Media Research, the…