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Time Warner Cable has agreed to carry BabyFirstTV’s lineup of educational programs aimed at children 3 years old and under, Multichannel News reports. The affiliation agreement will allow BabyFirstTV to reach up to 13.3 million Time Warner Cable subscribers, the…
Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2008” will welcome Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain on Wednesday, Multichannel News reports. It will be Sen. McCain’s 13th appearance on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” —Vlada Gelman
The CW is making a renewed effort to get its young audience to watch programming live on television, AdAge reports. As a part of the effort, The CW will promote a “watch and win” contest during the finale of “Gossip…
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution will provide The CW with afternoon programming from 3-5 p.m., Broadcasting & Cable reports. Telepictures Productions’ “Judge Jeanine Pirro” will air from 3-4 p.m. on weekdays, followed by reruns of comedies “The Wayans Bros.” and…
ABC has canceled the dramedy “Men in Trees,” TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello reports, citing creator Jenny Bicks. “I wish the show had not been moved six times and put onto two long hiatuses. No show could survive that,” Bicks told…
Product placement on prime-time programming increased by 6% in the first quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Co., TVNewsday.com reports. Broadcast TV placement rose 39% on ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV and NBC while product placement on cable networks…
Mary Jeanne “MJ” Cavanagh has been named executive VP of advertising sales at the Gospel Music Channel, MediaWeek reports. Cavanagh previously was the ad sales chief at Oxygen Media, which she joined in 2002, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
Cable operators Charter Communications, Mediacom Communications and Cequel Communications are urging Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin to broaden a proposal that would give small cable operators relief from rules requiring the duplicative carriage of some local TV signals, Multichannel…
Jesse Plemons (“Friday Night Lights”), James Roday and Maggie Lawson (“Psych”), Rachel Miner (“Californication”), Colin Ferguson (“Eureka”) and Christie Laing (“The 4400”) are among actors joining the cast of NBC’s horror anthology “Fear Itself,” the Chicago Tribune reports. Directors John…
“Hee Haw” star Jim Hager died May 1 in Nashville after collapsing at a coffee shop, AP reports. Hager was one-half of the country life-satirizing Hager Twins, who spouted corny one-liners on the long-running “Hee Haw,” the wire service notes….