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While some people compare him to a dancing Teletubby, Apple Computer founder Steve Wozniak is still on “Dancing With the Stars,” USA Today reports. Wozniak is the beneficiary of a grass-roots Internet campaign, as popularity generated by his enthusiasm and…
Standard & Poor’s cut the its rating on debt issued by Time Warner and Time Warner Cable, Dow Jones reports. TW Cable’s new rating is two steps above the junk category because it borrowed to pay a $10.86 billion special…
A global survey found that sports and fiction topped television ratings worldwide last year, Daily Variety reports, citing a study from French researcher Mediametrie. Sports programs were top-ranked in 13 countries out of the 72 surveyed, while the most-watched fiction…
U.S. viewing of ad-supported Web television shows will grow to 10 times the amount of paid-for online shows, London-based researcher Screen Digest announced at its Peve Digital Entertainment Conference, Daily Variety says. The challenge will be for companies to convince…
“The Wire” and “Dexter” were nominated in the international category for the sixth British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ TV awards, Daily Variety reports. Other nominees in the category are “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” and “Mad Men,”…
NBC Universal’s Telemundo has bought the television production rights to Arturo Perez Reverte’s bestseller “The Queen of the South,” and plans to make a 50- to 70-episode telenovela, Daily Variety reports. The novel follows a Mexican woman who becomes a…
Colin Egglesfield of “All My Children” and Stephanie Jacobsen of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” have been cast in The CW’s “Melrose Place,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Egglesfield will play Melrose Place resident Auggie, a surfer and sous-chef at a…
WGN America has picked up “Around the World for Free,” a reality show starring the winner of the second season of “The Amazing Race,” Broadcasting & Cable reports. The show will begin April 16 and show Alex Boylan trying to…
There are four full-power television stations awaiting approval from the FCC for their analog cut-off dates, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The stations want to make the transition earlier than the FCC wants and say they can’t meet conditions the FCC…
CBS.com said it drew a record 21 million unique viewers in February, a more than sixfold increase for the month compared to a year earlier, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The site was helped by content from partner sites as well…