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Fox Business Network, which announced a quintet of anchors Wednesday, identified a quartet of executive producers for the channel that will launch Oct. 15. Producing weekend and prime-time hours will be Terry Baker, executive producer of CBNC’s “Conversations With Michael…
NBC, Honda Team for Fall TV Promotion
Actress Alyssa Milano will be covering baseball online for TBS Hot Corner on MLB.com. TBS Hot Corner is a new broadband channel from Turner Broadcasting’s TBS, which will be broadcasting the major league division series and the National League Championship…
DirecTV and Thomson, a technology service provider, are rolling out new technology meant to help the U.S.’ No. 1 satellite TV supplier win more clients in apartment buildings. Residents of multi-dwelling units often are not allowed to put up satellite…
Comcast Monday launched HiDefHigh.com, a new Web site aimed at educating consumers about the company’s high-definition offerings. The new site, which has been in development for a couple of months, uses a Flash graphic of a talking parrot, in addition…
Marvel at Britney in High Def People just can’t get enough of Britney Spears and her performance at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards. Now they can watch the event in high definition. MTV’s HD network, MHD, will air the…
HD programming picks for Sept. 13-Sept. 19: “Hollywoodland,” “All About My Mother,” “Torchwood” “Hollywoodland” (HBO HD). Saturday, Sept. 15, 8 p.m.: A private eye investigates a tip that “Superman” actor George Reeves’ mysterious death wasn’t suicide but murder. “All About…
The Emmy Award-winning writer-producer team of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick have teamed up with MySpaceTV to distribute their new series exclusively online. “Quarterlife” picks up the mantle thematically of the team’s critically acclaimed “My So-Called Life” and “thirtysomething” by…
DIC Entertainment has tapped Kirk Bloomgarden as executive VP of global sales. Effective Jan. 1, he will oversee the company’s worldwide television, home entertainment and consumer products divisions. Bloomgarden joins DIC from the pan-European licensing agency Copyright Promotions, which was…
Without political advertising or Olympics programming, local broadcast TV ad revenues in the second quarter were down 6.6 percent year-to-year to $3.9 billion, according to analysis of estimates supplied by TNS Media Intelligence/CMR to Susan Cuccinello, senior VP of research…