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Bravo Media is growing its television network with merchandising and publishing tie-ins, Mediaweek reports. On May 20, the company will release its first non-series DVD, featuring “Work Out” personality Jackie Warner on BravoTV.com; it also will premiere Tuesday on video-on-demand…
TNT’s average household rating is up 10% to a 2.1 household rating through 22 telecasts of the NBA Playoff games, Mediaweek reports. Viewership among men 18-34 has increased by 25% while the overall number of viewers is up 10% for…
Ion Media Networks and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative have made a carriage deal, which will give rural subscribers access to Ion Television Network and its 24-hour digital networks, Multichannel News reports. The NRTC, an organization of more than 1,400…
Channel One, the in-school network, has replaced its analog broadcasting infrastructure with digital receivers, MediaDailyNews reports. The transition to digital distribution was made possible by Alloy Media + Marketing, which purchased the broadcaster in April 2007 with plans to invest…
Twentieth Century Fox will sponsor TruTV’s “Reel Movie” vignettes with interstitials promoting its upcoming feature film “What Happens in Vegas,” Multichannel News reports. TruTV also is introducing two interactive interstitials, “Actual Ads” and “Real-Life Stories,” which advertisers will be able…
The broadcast networks seem likely to give many scripted series another chance despite lagging ratings following the end of the writers strike, the Hollywood Reporter says. Pickups for the CBS series “Moonlight,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “How…
Mike O’Malley has been added to the cast of NBC’s “My Own Worst Enemy,” playing Christian Slater’s friend and co-worker, the Hollywood Reporter says. Also, Megan Dodds will play a public defender in Fox’s “Courtroom K” pilot while Andrea Anders…
TruTV, formerly Court TV, has picked up the series “L.A. Stringers” for six half-hour episodes, the Hollywood Reporter says. The series follows real-life freelance news reporters as they chase down leads and then try to sell their stories, the newspaper…
Sci Fi Channel will air all three “Indiana Jones” films and an investigative special, “Mystery of the Crystal Skulls,” prior to the May 22 release of the fourth film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” Multichannel News…
WE tv has acquired off-network rights to NBC’s “The Baby Borrowers” and The CW’s “Girlfriends,” Broadcasting & Cable reports. “The Baby Borrowers” will be re-aired on WE following each original episode broadcast on NBC beginning June 30, the newspaper says….