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Acting Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Copps is adding some items besides the DTV transition to the agency’s April 8 meeting agenda, Multichannel News reports. The agenda includes starting the process of creating a broadband plan and other issues such…
Former Washington State Governor Gary Locke was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee as the next Secretary of Commerce, Multichannel News reports. Although the full Senate needs to approve the nomination, it’s essentially pro forma after the committee’s approval, the…
Supermodel Elle Macpherson has been tapped for a recurring role on The CW’s pilot “Beautiful Life,” the Hollywood Reporter says. On the show, about a group of models living together in New York, she’ll play the owner of top modeling…
Animal Planet has renewed its reality show “Jockeys” for a second season, Daily Variety reports. The second season, to debut during the summer, will focus on six jockeys from the first season and bring in two new riders, the publication…
Brett Ratner will direct and executive produce Fox’s comedy pilot “Cop House,” set in a halfway house for cops with problems, the Hollywood Reporter says. The show has also tapped Rachael Harris and Ajay Naidu for roles on the show,…
The Obama administration is following through on its pledge to reform the government’s approach to the Freedom of Information Act requests, often used by journalists and the public to gain government information, Broadcasting & Cable reports. “By restoring the presumption…
The National Telecommunications & Information Administration received suggestions from the public on how to define unserved and underserved broadband areas, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The definition will help decide where to award $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds, the publication…
About 44% of the country’s TV stations aren’t going to wait for the national deadline to switch to digital television on June 12, instead dropping their analog broadcasting signals earlier, TVWeek reports. The Federal Communications Commission yesterday reported that 158…
Screen Actors Guild national interim executive director David White sent a message to members on Tuesday reassuring them that the union continues to work on concluding contract talks, Daily Variety reports. “We are working deliberately, and with as much haste…
Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are mulling sending out strike-authorization ballots if negotiations on a new commercials contract don’t improve soon, the Hollywood Reporter says. The ad industry is requesting rollbacks…