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Fremantle Media has promoted Gary Carter to COO from his current role as chief creative officer and president of creative networks, the Hollywood Reporter says. He’ll continue to oversee Fremantle’s global format group, which buys and develops formats to use…
Univision Communications has signed a multiyear retransmission-consent agreement with DirecTV, Multichannel News reports. Terms of the deal, which includes TeleFutura and Galavision, weren’t disclosed, the publication says. —Aimee Picchi
Brittany Snow will play the lead role in a “Gossip Girl” spinoff that will serve as a prequel to the current CW series, the Hollywood Reporter says. Snow will play the teenaged, Los Angeles-raised version of Lily van der Woodsen,…
Chris O’Donnell will play one of the lead agents in the planned “NCIS” spinoff, joining LL Cool J and Louise Lombard on the show, the Hollywood Reporter says. Additionally, Busy Philips, who was most recently in the film “He’s Just…
Time Warner Cable, the No. 2 U.S. cable company behind Comcast, will complete its planned spinoff from Time Warner Inc. on March 27, Daily Variety reports. Time Warner Cable shareholders will receive a special cash dividend worth about $10.9 billion,…
Media companies’ advertising sales fell in the fourth quarter from a year earlier as the effects of the economic downturn outweighed a bump in political advertising, Multichannel News says. While cable companies were able to offset the drop with more…
With News Corp. President and COO Peter Chernin leaving his post in June, the company loses a ‘Solomonic’ figure who mediated disputes between units at the media conglomerate, TVWeek reports. While CEO Rupert Murdoch is stepping into the roles Chernin…
“American Idol” executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz said News Corp.’s departing COO and President, Peter Chernin, is “a big part of the show,” Broadcasting & Cable reports. “He understands the show [Idol] in terms of what works, he understands the need…
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch wrote the company will create “a streamlined management structure between our Los Angeles-based business units and the rest of the company,” according to a memo to employees about the departure of Peter Chernin, the Los…
Two Hollywood agencies on Monday sent out internal e-mails saying that James Murdoch will replace departing President and COO Peter Chernin at News Corp., DeadlineHollywoodDaily reports. News Corp. and Fox sought to scuttle the speculation about James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s…