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The Federal Communications Commission said calls to its digital-TV transition help lines decreased Wednesday, the day after 417 stations switched away from analog signals. The decline may suggest that more viewers were concerned about the prospect of the DTV transition…
TodayShow.com has received a makeover. The new Web site allows users to customize their TodayShow.com homepage, while extending the broadcast’s brand with headlines and video from the show. Visitors can watch the entire show online and then embed or share…
Automaker Infiniti has become the exclusive sponsor of college basketball in the Big Ten and SEC conferences. It also has signed new multimedia ad deals with ESPN and CBS. ESPN will air an “Infiniti Pre-Game Showcase” before key games, and…
Isaac Mizrahi and Kelly Rowland will host Bravo’s competition series “The Fashion Show.” “The Fashion Show’s” professional designer contestants will have their fate determined in each week’s challenge by a studio audience and a panel of judges. IMG Fashion Senior…
TV Land has cast Stacey Anderson as the star of its elimination dating series “The Cougar.” The 40-year-old Ms. Anderson is a realtor from Scottsdale, Ariz. Vivca A. Fox hosts the eight-episode series, which premieres April 15 on TV Land…
Inspired by the success of Canadian import “Flashpoint,” CBS has picked up 13 episodes of the Canadian TV series “The Bridge,” which it will again share with CTV. The series was originally developed as a two-hour movie and backdoor pilot…
“Coraline” director Henry Selick will be the featured keynote speaker at the NAB Show. Mr. Selick will speak on April 20 about digital technology and how it has helped to revitalize stop-motion animation. “Coraline” is the first stop-motion animated feature…
Hyundai is going for Oscar gold. The Korean car company said it will air eight commercials during Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast on ABC. Longtime sponsors General Motors and L’Oreal reportedly have pulled out of the event, often referred to as…
Comcast will make its so-called “wideband” high-speed Internet service available to more than 30 million homes by the end of the year, Multichannel News reports. The U.S. cable leader provides the service to 10 markets, including Minneapolis-St. Paul, Boston and…
E.W. Scripps’ fourth-quarter television sales rose 2.1% on a jump in spending on political advertising, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Despite $26 million in revenue from political ads, overall revenue fell 6.2% because of newspaper declines, B&C says. —Danny King