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With no other bids meeting the minimum the company was looking for, Young Broadcasting is expected to go to the company’s lenders, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The station group, which entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, canceled a planned auction…
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller slated a hearing on children’s TV for next week, after saying that he remains concerned about TV content and kids, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The July 22 hearing is titled “Rethinking the Children’s Television…
NBC is pulling its Thursday 10 p.m. summer drama “The Listener” at the end of July, with five episodes remaining, Variety says. “Law and Order” repeats will be substituted for the Canadian co-production about a telepathic paramedic, which hasn’t caught…
Mignon Clyburn and Meredith Attwell Baker answered questions from Senators Wednesday during their nomination hearing for the two remaining vacancies on the Federal Communications Commission, Multichannel News reports.. Clyburn said she would be consumer- and public-interest focused, called for high-speed and affordable…
Veteran television executive Don Ohlmeyer was named ESPN’s ombudsman, and will write a monthly column critiquing its content and journalism for ESPN.com, starting next month, says the Los Angeles Times. Ohmeyer, who retired in 1999 as president, NBC West Coast,…
CBS is joining the Comcast “On Demand Online” trial which will let cable subscribers watch many of the shows in their cable packages online, Broadcasting & Cable says. CBS, which notably doesn’t take part in Hulu, the web video outlet…
Young Broadcasting called off the auction of its 10 stations that was to have taken place yesterday, Broadcasting & Cable says. The lawyers representing Young didn’t say why the auction was canceled but some insiders believe that it signals that…
“American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest is getting a major pay raise that will put him in the top paid ranks of TV reality hosts under a contract renewal that is being wrapped up, The Hollywood Reporter says. Seacrest made just…
NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker told CNBC’s Erin Burnett in a Sun Valley, Idaho, interview that he thinks the marketplace has hit bottom, and that the NBCU local station business appears to be improving, Broadcasting & Cable says. The ad marketplace…
The International Olympic Committee criticized the U.S. Olympic Committee’s plan to launch an Olympics cable channel with Comcast, saying it could have a negative impact on other Olympic broadcasters and sponsors, the Wall Street Journal says. The IOC, which is…