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Two lifelong Red Sox Fan who run a music company have written new tunes that will be used during NESN’s telecasts of the team’s games, the Boston Herald reports. “We’ve been using the same opening since 2003 and it needed…
WYOU-TV in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Penn. said it’s scrapping its local news broadcasts and laying off 14 news, production and promotion staffers, TVNewsday reports. The change from local news to syndicated entertainment and news magazines will save the station about $900,000 annually,…
Because of “ER’s” popularity, the medical community kept an unusually close eye on the show to make sure that it was presenting an accurate impression of the state of health care, the New York Times says. That demand for accuracy…
For its second season, HBO’s “In Treatment” moves to Brooklyn where Gabriel Byrne’s psychotherapist is now a single man, the New York Times says. Hagai Levi, creator of the original Israeli version of the show, tells the paper the new…
A new television ad campaign for Sprint Nextel focuses on Internet and data services available through the company’s cell phone service, the Wall Street Journal says. Sprint has been losing share to AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the paper says. —Jon…
Clark Kellogg, serving as analyst for CBS’ Final Four coverage for the first time, tells USA Today he had butterflies on Saturday, but was excited by the buzz and energy of the event. He thinks Michigan State will relish getting…
The fifth season of FX’s “Rescue Me” has creator Denis Leary’s character again haunted by memories of the Sept. 11 attacks that brought down the World Trade Center, devastating the New York City Fire Department, the New York Times reports….
Thursday night’s series finale of “ER” on NBC drew over 16 million viewers. The two-hour finale averaged a 6.0 rating/16 share among adults 18-49 and 16.4 million viewers, according to final Nielsen Media Research figures. The show dominated the 9-11…
Canoe Ventures expects to announce its first national addressable advertising product in about six weeks, company President David Verklin said. Speaking at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show ’09 in Washington Friday morning, Mr. Verklin described the new…
Jay Leno’s hometown station, Sunbeam Television’s WHDH-TV, says it wont carry the lantern-jawed comic’s new show in primetime, TelevisionWeek reports. NBC is not too happy, TVWeek says, and is threatening to strip the station of its affiliation. The Boston Globe…