Time Warner Has Plans for AOL
Time Warner may reveal its plans for AOL as early as tomorrow, Bloomberg reports. Time Warner, which has been looking to spin off the company in order to focus on its film and TV properties, may be able to separate…
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CBS Delays Finales for Obama
CBS is retooling its season finale schedules in order to accommodate President Barack Obama’s press conference Wednesday night, TVGuide.com reports. The network will push the “CSI: NY” finale to May 14 at 10 p.m., taking the former spot of “Harper’s…
NBC Tops Sports Emmys
NBC won nine awards at the 30th annual Sports Emmy Awards, more than any other network, Multichannel News reports. The network was followed by HBO with eight awards, and ESPN won four, the trade paper says. NBC won four Emmys…
DirecTV Creates Score Tracking Guide
DirecTV started an application called ScoreGuide on Monday that allows viewers to track live scores of sports events, Multichannel News reports. The company’s customers will see a small icon alerting them to the interactive application, which is available on DirecTV’s…
Dish Shuffles Executives
Dish Network announced it has reorganized its executives ranks as the satellite television operator seeks to improve subscriber growth, the Hollywood Reporter says. Chief financial officer Bernie Han has been promoted to chief operating officer and will oversee the company’s…
NAB Offers Swine Flu Help
The National Association of Broadcasters contacted the federal Department of Health & Human Services on Monday to offer help in providing information about the swine flu to the public, Broadcasting & Cable reports. NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton said the department…
Commercials Ballots Going Out
SAG and AFTRA members will start getting their ratification ballots for the commercials agreement on Friday, Daily Variety reports. Unlike the feature-primetime contract, there doesn’t appear to be opposition to the commercials deal, the paper says. Ballots are due back…
WGA Set to Lobby Congress
The Writers Guild of America, East, plans to lobby Congress on May 8 with a panel discussion and meetings, Daily Variety reports. The guild has scheduled “Writers Speak! A Potentially Regrettable Evening With Comedy Writers” at the Newseum in Washington,…
‘Chuck’ Boosts Subway Sales
A product placement deal in “Chuck” for Subway is turning out bigger than the sandwich chain had planned, with one of the show’s fans creating a “Finale & Footlong” campaign to both buy Subway sandwiches and to persuade NBC to…
Hearst Increases Hearst-Argyle Bid
Hearst Corp. has increased its bid for the shares of the Hearst-Argyle station group that it doesn’t already own to $4.50 a share, up from $4, MediaPost reports. Hearst said discussions with two independent Hearst-Argyle directors led the company to…