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Apple agreed to sell some HBO episodes on its iTunes service for more than the standard $1.99 price, though specifics on the price and shows weren’t disclosed, Daily Variety reports. HBO’s “Sex and the City” and “The Sopranos” will begin…
Dish Network, the No. 2 satellite-television operator behind DirecTV, said yesterday it added 35,000 net new first-quarter subscribers, down from 310,000 a year earlier, as customer turnover increased. The company cited new fiber-optic TV services, promotions from competitors and the…
Accreditation for Nielsen ratings system that factors in digital-video recorder playbacks were withheld last week by the Media Rating Council, Media Daily News reports. The so-called C3 ratings system may remain unaccredited by the time advertising negotiations for the upfronts…
ABC signed former “Will & Grace” star Megan Mullally to star opposite Alicia Silverstone in the comedy pilot “Bad Mother’s Handbook,” Daily Variety reports. Mullally, who recently played on Broadway in “Young Frankenstein,” is a two-time Emmy winner, the newspaper…
“Fraggle Rock,” the Jim Henson series featured on HBO in the 1980s, will be made into a live-action film musical by Weinstein Co., Daily Variety reports. “Hoodwinked!” director Cory Edwards will do the same for the film while Ahmet Zappa…
Clear Channel neared an agreement to be bought out at a lower price than previously negotiated, as buyout firms such as Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee were close to reaching financing terms, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company…
Fox Television Studios has ordered three series that will be produced abroad and pitched to U.S. networks, the Hollywood Reporter says. Fox TV Studios President Emiliano Calemzuk, who was born in Argentina, is encouraging production abroad as a method of…
U.S. Web viewing in March jumped 64% from a year earlier, led by Google unit YouTube, ComScore Networks reported yesterday. Internet users watched 11.5 billion online videos during March, up 13% from February, ComScore said. About 37% of the clips…
Cable-television operator Charter Communications said yesterday that its first-quarter loss narrowed 6% after almost doubling its telephone-services revenue. The company also boosted its high-speed Internet sales by 12%. –Danny King
The National Association of Broadcasters told the Federal Communications Commission yesterday that the agency’s new requirement for programming-disclosure forms would increase stations’ paperwork tenfold, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Stations would need to devote more than an additional 20 weekly hours…