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Michael Eisner’s Web studio Vuguru will create a spinoff series this summer of its popular “Prom Queen” Web show. “Prom Queen,” which ended its run this month, was viewed 15 million times online. The spinoff, “Prom Queen: Summer Heat,” will…
President Bush is nominating FCC commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate to a full five-year term on the commission. Ms. Tate, an attorney and former Tennessee utility regulator and senior advisor to several Tennessee governors, has been on the commission since Jan….
Program ratings aren’t completely dead. Viacom’s Nickelodeon and media buying agency Starcom completed the first major kids upfront deal of the season. The multiplatform transaction is based on quarter-hour program ratings, but the companies agreed to do research to see…
Four years after launching the Voom high-definition service, Cablevision is adding the package to its own cable lineup. The cable operator announced Thursday it will add subsidiary Rainbow Media’s 15-channel Voom HD Networks to its channel package starting July 1….
General Electric and Pearson, whose holdings including the Financial Times, have called a halt to any conversations about a collaborative bid for Dow Jones and Co., whose journalistic crown jewel is the Wall Street Journal. The development greatly enhances the…
Emerging video search service CastTV snagged its first customer via a two-year licensing deal with TV Guide. TV Guide will use CastTV’s video search technology to power results for the company’s online video guide. The site is located at video.tvguide.com…
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