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Roberta Baskin, a longtime award-winning investigative reporter for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., is joining the federal Dept. of Health and Human Services as a senior communications adviser to its office of inspector general, says the Washington Post. She’ll be there…
Stephen Davis was named president of toy company Hasbro’s new Hasbro Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The studio will produce shows, for the new Hasbro-Discovery Communications joint network and others, based on the company’s brands. He was most recently the…
ESPN said New York Post sports writers are no longer banned from its airwaves, the Associated Press reports. The reporters were banned after the tabloid paper printed stills from a videotape that showed EPSN reporter Erin Andrews nude in her…
Google-owned YouTube has signed up nearly 200 news providers for its News Near You feature, which figures out a user’s location and suggests relevant video, a service which could eventually become a rival to local newscasts, the New York Times…
Tom Shales reflects on the late Walter Cronkite in the debut standalone issue of TVWeek’s NewsPro. See all August NewsPro stories here.
HBO, Syfy and AMC were all winners as cable dominated Saturday night’s Television Critics Association Awards, taking home seven of the 10 categories, Multichannel News says. Syfy’s “Battlestar Galactica,” which ended a four-year run last spring, won for program of…
PBS’ kids series “Sesame Street” plans a smoke- and drink-free parody of AMC’s “Mad Men” this season, reports Jezebel.com, which speculates on the Muppet casting (think Prairie Dawn as Peggy Olson, Lefty the Salesman as Don Draper and Elmo in…
CBS is replacing the long-running soap “Guiding Light” with a new version of the old gameshow “Let’s Make a Deal,” Variety reports. The soap ends its 72-year radio and television run on Sept. 18. The new “Deal” is likely to…
Kevin Federline was spotted at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Thursday shooting scenes for a reality show pilot, People reports, citing an unnamed source. People says the show, which has not been picked up, will focus…
PBS talk show host Charlie Rose brokered a truce in the fierce on-air feud between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, the New York Times says. The on-air hosts began laying off each other in June after…