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Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes earned $19.9 million in compensation in 2008, little changed from the $19.6 million he received in 2007, Multichannel News reports. According to a regulatory filing, his base salary rose to $1.75 million from $1.25 million,…
ABC Family has pre-purchased two future Disney movies for their network TV debut as part of a five-film agreement, Daily Variety reports. The two yet-to-be-released films are “G-Force” and a 3-D version of “A Christmas Carol.” The agreement also includes…
AOL named Mark Ellis as the head of sales for its Platform-A Internet advertising division, the Wall Street Journal says. Ad revenues at Time Warner’s troubled AOL unit fell 18% in the fourth quarter, the paper says. —Jon Lafayette
When “American Idol” ran nine minutes long Tuesday, it caused a problem for viewers watching on digital video recorders, who didn’t see the performance of Adam Lambert, the last singer, the Washington Post reports. “Idol” ran long again Wednesday, interfering…
Constantly social networking through Facebook and Twitter is getting to be too much for some young people, the Associated Press reports. A recent survey found a group of 7% of the population whose median age is 29 and who understand…
WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, will start a local 24-hour digital weather channel in June, The Columbus Dispatch reports. The network will focus on weather reports from the CBS affiliate’s meteorologists, although it will also include national weather from AccuWeather, the…
A camera crew from RDF USA has filmed a teaser for a proposed show about the country’s first openly transgender mayor, the Statesman Journal reports. Stu Rasmussen, the mayor of Silverton, Ore., has been featured in People magazine since he…
CBS’ new show “Harper’s Island” pushes the limits for showing gore on TV, the Los Angeles Times says in a review. The splatter “seems almost intentionally gratuitous—a body cut in half with lingering shots of the victim’s entrails,” the Times…
In a review, the Washington Post calls NBC’s new comedy “Parks and Recreation” “a tpo-obvious imitation of the network’s imported hit ‘The Office.” The show was conceived as a vehicle for Amy Poehler but it “unfortunately isn’t worthy of her,”…