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DirecTV’s first-quarter net income rose to $371 million, up from $336 million in the year-ago quarter, Reuters reports. Revenue increased 17% to $4.59 billion, the wire service notes. The lowest customer loss rate in 10 years and 275,000 new subscribers…
Place-based gas station video networks are expanding at a growing pace, Media Daily News reports. PumpTop TV, which currently broadcasts to 550 gas stations, will expand to 1,100 stations at its current average installation rate of four stations a day,…
Walt Disney’s cable and broadcast networks saw income rise in the second quarter despite lower ratings and advertising revenues during the writers strike, Media Daily News reports. International sales of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Lost” drove the broadcast group’s net operating…
Ryan Seacrest is in “serious negotiations” to replace Larry King at the end of the year, MSNBC reports, citing an unnamed source. King told the New York Times in April 2007 that Seacrest is his first choice to take over…
Discovery Channel’s “Man vs. Wild” averaged 1.4 million viewers for its Friday season premiere, Multichannel News reports. The survival show was the highest-rated non-sports program that night among men 18 to 34 years old, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
The first episode of Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana” following Miley Cyrus’ controversial Vanity Fair picture averaged 3.12 million viewers, down 32% from the season’s five previous episodes, Multichannel News reports. But Disney Channel said the episode topped its time-slot competition…
The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers entered what is likely their final day of negotiations today with a self-imposed deadline of 5 p.m., Daily Variety reports. A deal does not seem close as…
Playboy Enterprises reported a quarterly loss on Tuesday, causing its shares to fall 8%, Reuters reports. The decline is blamed on weaker publishing and domestic television revenue, the wire service says. Domestic television revenue dropped 16% even as monthly subscription…
MSNBC unveiled a suit of interactive digital tools for Web users known as NewsWare on Monday, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The mix of news and gaming includes a NewsBlaster online game requiring viewers to smash orbs to get headlines and…
ABC is in talks with the producers of “Ugly Betty” to move the show’s production to New York, TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello reports, citing unnamed sources. While “Ugly Betty” is set in New York, the series shoots in Los Angeles….