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Time Warner released its fiscal 2009 earnings results today, with subscription revenue from its networks’ distributors being the highlight amid slackening DVD sales, advertiser cutbacks and a post-election-year ratings slide for CNN, B&C reports. For the year, Time Warner’s networks unit posted a 10 percent…
As the saying goes, there are just not enough hours in the day. So the solution one New York station has come up with is to get a start each morning a half hour earlier. NBC’s flagship O&O WNBC-TV in…
A comedy sketch on ‘Saturday Night Live’ is one thing, but a feature film is quite another — and the creator of ‘MacGyver,’ Lee Zlotoff, wants to stop the March release of the film that mocks his TV show, "MacGruber," according…
NBC wasted no time in getting rid of traces of Conan O’Brien, Gawker reports. The company has cut the picture of its former late-night host from the lobby mural at its New York headquarters at 30 Rock, and replaced him…
An Oscar-nominated actress will play the lead in ABC’s “Scoundrels,” a comedic drama series the network plans to air over the summer, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Virginia Madsen (“Sideways”) will play the matriarch of a criminal family trying to go…
Telemundo began airing enhanced local newscasts in four markets—Dallas, Houston, San Jose and Phoenix—this week, B&C reports. The Spanish-language network said late last year that it planned to increase its local news investment. Among the changes are the additions of…
Fox and ESPN plan to bid for U.S. broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, and CBS and Time Warner are considering a joint bid, Bloomberg reports. They are jumping in just as current rights holder NBC has said…
News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch told investors that Fox Broadcasting is giving serious consideration to bringing Conan O’Brien on board to do a late night show, but no deal will happen until Fox executives can make the case that…