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Brian Williams will lead NBC’s coverage of the political party conventions, anchoring the night at 10 p.m. while also fulfilling his “Nightly News” duties, TVNewser reports. Luke Russert, son of the late Tim Russert, has joined NBC News’ convention coverage…
NBC Local Media has promoted Shawn Makhijani to VP of corporate business development, local media, and Mark Yackanich to VP of corporate strategy for local media, TVNewsday reports. The executives will work with NBC Local Media’s television stations, digital group,…
Five freshman series from last season that were renewed, but haven’t aired new episodes in at least nine months, are planning a fall relaunch, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. The creators of NBC’s “Life” and “Chuck” are structuring their season…
Actor-musician John Doe will join the cast of The CW’s “One Tree Hill” next season, Entertainment Weekly reports. Doe will play the mysterious man mentioned in last season’s finale who may or may not be Peyton’s real father, the magazine…
Mobile agency 4th Screen and Virgin Media have teamed to launch Virgin Mobile Advertising, Online Media Daily reports. 4th Screen will be in charge of planning and executing Virgin Media’s cross-media campaigns, the Web site notes. —Vlada Gelman
Nickelodeon and National Amusements will offer episodes of preschool-geared TV shows at 36 theaters nationwide starting today, Media Daily News reports. Among the programs included in “Nick Jr. at the Movies” are “Dora the Explorer,” “The Backyardigans,” “Go, Diego, Go!”…
Google has purchased Atherton, Calif.-based startup Omnisio, which allows users to extract clips from videos on YouTube, Google Video and Blip.tv, Tech Crunch reports. Users then can mash the clips together to create their own embeddable compilations, the Web site…
AMCtv.com is streaming the entire original CBS/NBC News special from Feb. 14, 1962, featuring a tour of the White House with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Time magazine reports. A bit of the special was seen during the second-season premiere of…
Rory Cochrane (“CSI: Miami”) has been added to the cast of Fox’s “24,” TV Guide reports, citing unnamed sources. Cochrane will play a crony to Jon Voight’s bad-guy character in the upcoming new season, the magazine says. —Vlada Gelman
Nielsen Mobile and Mediamark Research & Intelligence are launching Mobile-MRI, a research service that will provide behavioral, psychographic, demographic and product usage information on mobile users, MediaWeek reports. MRI recently ended its partnership with M:Metrics, which was acquired by comScore…