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Four Kansas television stations will offer pay-per-view broadcasts of live video streams of two high school football championship games on Nov. 29, Broadcasting & Cable reports. GrandStadium TV will charge $9.95. Stations in Kansas City, Topeka and Joplin-Pittsburgh have all…
Comedy Central will use New York’s BLVD/Crash Mansion nightclub as a live venue to preview and showcase some of its on-screen performers, Daily Variety reports. The venue, which the network will use similarly to Los Angeles’ Comedy Central Stage, will…
Teenagers who watch racy television shows are more likely to be involved with pregnancies, the Associated Press reports, citing a Rand Corp. study. Teenage boys and girls who regularly watched shows such as “Friends,” “That ’70s Show” and “Sex and…
About 20 new “Peanuts” Webisodes have been created and will be sold on Apple’s iTunes service, the Associated Press reports. The three- to four-minute clips, created by Warner Bros. Motion Comics and done with the blessing of creator Charles Schulz’s…
The NHL Network extended by a year its agreement to broadcast college hockey games from four conferences, Multichannel News says. As part of the deal, whose financial terms weren’t disclosed, the channel starting tonight will broadcast 19 game-of-the-week presentations through…
Maximum Adventure Network and Pursuit Channel will merge, creating a fishing and hunting channel with more than 100 content titles, Multichannel News says. The new channel will be accessible to 17 million DirecTV subscribers, Multichannel News reports. –Danny King
Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel died at his Chicago home at age 96, Associated Press reports. Winner of a 1985 Pulitzer for “The Good War,” Terkel also acted in films such as 1988’s “Eight Men Out,” the wire service says….
Screen Actors Guild has started a campaign to give more than $25 million in unclaimed residuals due to 66,000 members ranging from Dick Clark to Frank Sinatra, Daily Variety reports. The guild has said much of the money hasn’t been…
Ted Rogers, head of Canada’s Rogers Communications, was hospitalized to get treatment for a pre-existing heart condition, Multichannel News reports. Chairman Alan Horn will fill in for Rogers, whose stay will be determined by his medical progress, Multichannel News says,…
“One Tree Hill” creator Mark Schwahn has been approached about directing an updated version of the series “Melrose Place,” Entertainment Weekly says. Original “Melrose” creator Darren Star has declined an offer to direct the remake, the magazine says. –Danny King