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Longtime NBC News correspondent Irving R. Levine passed away Thursday at the age of 86, TVNewser reports. Levine was with the news organization for 35 years, starting off as a foreign correspondent then becoming an economics correspondent based in Washington,…
ABC is getting serious about offering its television programming on Hulu in exchange for an equity stake, reports PaidContent.org. The online news outlet said talks between Disney, which owns ABC, and Hulu, an NBC Universal-News Corp. joint venture, have intensified…
Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance at Discovery Communications’ upfront presentation to advertisers and media buyers in Chicago Thursday afternoon. Ms. Winfrey came out on-stage near the end of a presentation by Christina Norman, the former MTV president who now…
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said his senior legal adviser, Scott Bergmann, is leaving to join the wireless association CTIA, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Adelstein is readying his own departure, as President Obama intends to nominate him to run the Rural…
True Entertainment has tapped two programming executives, Matt Hanna as senior vice president of development from BermanBraun and Marcia Mule as VP and head of programming, Daily Variety says. Mule founded Picture This Television, the publication says. True, which created…
Nickelodeon has renewed “Yo Gabba Gabba” for a third season, the Hollywood Reporter says. Its executive producers, the Magic Store’s Jon Berrett, Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, have signed with CAA, the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
The Writers Guild of America, West, has cut at least a dozen employees out of its 185, including assistant executive directors Paul Nawrocki and Countess Williams, Daily Variety reports. WGA West spokesman Neal Sacharow said fewer than 18 employees had…
Internet measurement firm Visible Measures has locked in a $10 million Series C round of funding, bringing its total fundraising to $29 million, the Boston Globe reports. The round was led by Northgate Capital and includes investments from General Catalyst…
A stunt for Discovery’s “Mythbusters” was a little stronger than the crew thought, KCRA.com reports. The show was filming a segment in Yolo County, Calif., where crew members were trying to create an explosion that would knock the socks off…
Reveille, the television studio behind such hit shows as NBC’s “The Office” and ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” launched a 50-episode Web series on MSN.com sponsored by Post Grape Nuts cereal. The original digital show, geared for a male audience, stars Kenny…