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Television ratings firm Nielsen said yesterday it won’t expand into radio or newspaper ratings analysis, Media Daily News reports. The company’s publishing arm, Nielsen Business Media, has been put up for sale so the company can focus more on global…
Yahoo today will likely announce a partnership with advertising company WPP in an agreement that will help WPP better target Internet users through its 24/7 Real Media unit, the New York Times reports. WPP acquired 24/7 Real Media for $649…
Dish Network won a piracy lawsuit against DirecTV and NDS Group Plc, though the award was cut from the $1 billion sought by Dish to $1,500, the Wall Street Journal reports. The five-year-old suit was filed after NDS, majority owned…
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia sold three compilation specials to Fine Living, Daily Variety reports. The specials, to run each Saturday starting this month, feature subjects such as gardening and outdoor grilling, the newspaper says. –Danny King
Warner Home Video promoted Mike Saksa, Jeff Baker and Jeff Brown to help run its New Line unit, Daily Variety reports. Meanwhile, Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings promoted Jeremy Elice to vice president of original programming at its AMC network while…
MySpace TV will develop an Ian Ziering-starring comedy based on a short film he starred in and produced called “Man vs. Monday,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The movie was in a number of film festivals in 2006, the newspaper reports….
CBS Corp., looking to further extend its business beyond traditional television, is set to buy the CNET Network of Web sites for $1.8 billion, TVWeek reports. The purchase will augment CBS’s stable of digital assets by adding properties including CNET,…
Fox Broadcasting will begin marketing new J.J. Abrams drama “Fringe” today to coincide with its upfront week schedule presentation, TVWeek says. The network is likely to run the show on Monday nights, in tandem with either “Terminator: The Sarah Connor…
The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers will resume talks over a new labor contract this month after the studios invited the guild back to the negotiating table by May 28, Daily Variety reports….
CBS released fall pilot preview videos and TVWeek.com is hosting the clips. For sneak peeks at: “The Eleventh Hour,” a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama about a paranormal investigator; “The Ex-List,” a dramedy about a woman trying to choose a husband from…