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Barack Obama’s inauguration speech generated some record setting Web-video streaming traffic for CNN and its partner Facebook, but will the public be quite as interested in the new president’s State of the Union like address to Congress? The world gets…
Australian actor Jason Clarke has been hired for the lead of CBS’ U.S. attorney pilot, a drama about a group of federal prosecutors in Manhattan, the Hollywood Reporter says. Separately, Fox’s comedy pilot “Two Dollar Beer” has tapped Jonathan Sadowski,…
The Golf Channel sprang into action when Tiger Woods announced on Thursday he would return to competitive play next week in a tournament that the network will carry live in early rounds. Golf Channel broke away from its live coverage…
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric said she’d like to do more features for “60 Minutes” and is “disappointed” that baseball star Alex Rodriguez lied to her in an on-air interview about his steroid use, the Daily Beast reports. Couric…
John Rossi, general manager of CW-affiliate KOCB and Fox affiliate KOKH in Oklahoma City, said he was feeling tired today after his station fielded nearly 900 calls over the past two days regarding his stations’ switch to digital TV signals….
Ross Mathews has come onboard as a celebrity interviewer for TheInsider.com. Mr. Mathews got his break on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” where he filmed segments and did celebrity interviews for seven years as “Ross the Intern.” Mr. Mathews…
Verizon’s FiOS finished atop a satisfaction survey of television services, with about nine out of 10 customers at least “somewhat” pleased with the service, Multichannel News reports. Time Warner Cable finished on the bottom of the list, with fewer than…
ESPN and Discovery Channel were atop the list of channels that surveyed television watchers said they would most want to keep, Multichannel News reports, citing Solutions Research Group. ABC was the broadcast network viewers most wanted to keep, while Fox…
California will earmark $100 million a year worth of tax breaks to television and movie producers who film at least three-quarters of their content within the state, Web site DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com reports, citing the California Film Commission. The program will be…
CNN will create more Internet-only news content, exemplified by its coverage of Barack Obama’s Feb. 24 address to Congress, while working with social-networking site Facebook on creating online communities related to certain events, Broadcasting & Cable reports. CNN newscasters John…