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MLB Network will broadcast 61 spring training games, including 45 live games. Each game will be a simulcast of the local broadcast. The network’s spring training broadcast schedule kicks off Feb. 25 with San Francisco at Cleveland live from Goodyear…
Nike is commemorating the return of Tiger Woods to the professional golf tour after his knee surgery by debuting a television-advertising campaign called “The Good Life” tomorrow on ESPN and the Golf Channel, Advertising Week reports. The one-minute spot also…
Jim Murphy, executive producer of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” said anchor Diane Sawyer “better” extend her contract when it expires this year, calling her “the most talented anchor in the business,” TVNewser reports. The show, rated No. 2 in its…
Animal Planet will use semi-animated visual graphics similar to those in the films “300” and “Sin City” in its new series “Dark Days in Monkey City,” which features monkeys living in the ruins of the Sri Lankan city of Polonnaruwa,…
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In the clearest sign yet that The CW will live to fight another season, the network has given early renewals to a half-dozen existing series, including Superman drama “Smallville.” The CW President Dawn Ostroff began telephoning executives at Warner Bros….
The CW is feeling groovy about Ashton Kutcher’s “The Beautiful Life,” greenlighting a pilot for the project and bringing on “Swingtown” and “Jericho” scribes Mike Kelley and Carol Barbee to serve as executive producers. “Life,” which has been in development…
World Wrestling Entertainment had an 8% increase in revenue last year despite a fourth-quarter decline in sales in 2008, Broadcasting & Cable reports. 2008 results were helped by a television-rights agreement with MyNetworkTV for WWE’s “Smackdown” programming, B&C says. Pay-per-view…
Walt Disney’s attempt to make a $233 million acquisition of rights to show free over-the-air television programming in Russia was blocked by authorities who cited anti-monopoly concerns, Daily Variety reports. Disney had been planning to buy 49% of Russia’s Media…
Footage, log books and other materials belonging to the producer of Discovery Channel’s “Animal Planet” were confiscated from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship the Steve Irwin in Tasmania by Australian officials, the Los Angeles Times reports. Australian officials were tipped…