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Tim Winter, the Parents Television Council’s executive director in California, said that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin “has been our hero,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Martin, who has sought to cleanse television of indecent and offensive programming, has…
NBC has signed WPP Digital’s Schematic unit to provide the Web video player for its 2,200-plus hours of live streaming Olympics coverage, Online Media Daily reports. The player, which will be available on NBCOlympics.com and will feature interactive picture-in-picture, also…
“The Howdy Doody Show” will come to DVD for the first time on Nov. 4, the Hollywood Reporter says. Mill Creek Entertainment and NBC Universal have made a deal to release 40 of the show’s 126 licensed episodes in a…
Michael Rosen has been named executive producer for the Saturday edition of CBS’ “The Early Show,” Broadcasting & Cable reports. Rosen is the senior broadcast producer for the weekday edition, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
XETV San Diego will become “San Diego 6 The CW” on Aug. 1, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The Grupo Televisa station, formerly a Fox affiliate, was left without affiliation after KSWB announced it would become San Diego’s Fox affiliate as…
A poll conducted for Best Buy by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media Omnibus Services revealed that while 88% of Americans have heard of the transition to digital television, many do not know what they must do or why the…
CBS is in “substantive” talks with executive producer Ed Bernero for a “Criminal Minds” spinoff, Entertainment Weekly reports. “It’s safe to say there will be something soon,” Bernero said, but it is unclear whether any of the original program’s characters…
ABC has added “The Sopranos’” Michael Imperioli to the cast of “Life on Mars,” Daily Variety reports. Imperioli will play Det. Ray Carling, a colleague of main character Sam, played by Jason O’Mara, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman
The “Battlestar Galactica” TV movie will be written by Jane Espenson and directed by Edward James Olmos, Galactica Sitrep reports. The studio reportedly has a deal out to Dean Stockwell for the film, and is interesting in making deals with…