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The Advertising Council in a partnership with the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, launched its first series of national ads this week aimed at combating anti-gay language and harassment among teens, MediaDailyNews reports. Hilary Duff and comedian Wanda Sykes…
IFC and Sundance Channel have formed a new division to focus on sales and business development across both cable channels and a variety of other platforms such as on-demand and film festivals, Broadcasting and Cable reports. Allen Klein, previously IFC’s…
A group of low-power TV stations have gathered more than 150 signatures from station representatives calling on the FCC to start the process of moving them to full-power status, securing their carriage on cable, Broadcasting and Cable reports. The group…
Time Warner Cable is facing another retransmission-consent dispute as it enters its second week in a similar fight with LIN TV, Multichannel News reports. The cable company and LIN TV are still negotiating a new retransmission-consent deal, but 15 LIN…
Cartoon Network is in pre-production on a live-action, CGI movie based on bestselling young adult novel “Tiger’s Apprentice” by Lawrence Yep, Multichannel News reports. The film is casting now and set to premiere in 2010. Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Magee adapted…
The Travel Channel’s first roundtable special will feature “No Reservations” host Anthony Bourdain chatting about food and wine with a group of New York City friends, Multichannel News reports. “At the Table With Anthony Bourdain” is set to air Oct….
Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett upgraded Dish Network stock Friday to “market outperform,” while at the same time warning that the company could be crippled if a judge orders it to shutdown 4 million set-top boxes in the TiVo case,…
YouTube will begin streaming full-length, advertising-supported TV shows and other long-form content from the CBS library as part of a shift in strategy, MediaWeek reports. The CBS deal includes older network shows such as “Star Trek,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” soap…
Cable networks are premiering more original shows in the fall, putting them in direct competition with the broadcast networks’ fall lineups, Reuters reports. FX has had success in the past with fall airings of “Nip/Tuck” and “The Shield,” while recent…
Stock for every major media and entertainment company fell to their lowest numbers in at least a year on Thursday due to the current economic crisis, MarketWatch reports. Among the companies seeing declines are Time Warner Inc., which hit a…