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Fox Business Network has re-signed anchor David Asman, TVNewser reports. The multiyear deal will keep Asman as a co-anchor on “Fox Business” and “Fox Business Bulls & Bears,” in addition to his hosting duties on “America’s Nightly Scoreboard” and “Forbes…
Michaela McManus will join NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” next season, the Hollywood Reporter says. McManus, who had a recurring role on The CW’s “One Tree Hill” last season, will play the new assistant district attorney, the newspaper says. —Vlada…
Marketers are concerned that the move to digital television will cut off wider high-definition commercials, AdAge reports. The DTV transition will open more spectrum for high-definition programming, but many homes still have standard-definition TV sets that cannot support the wide-screen…
Mary-Kate Olsen will appear in an episode of ABC’s “Samantha Who?” next season, E! Online reports, citing an unnamed source. Olsen plays a character whom Samantha tries to “save,” the Web site says. The article didn’t indicate whether the producers…
Kermit Love, a costume designer who co-created the “Sesame Street” characters Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus, died on June 21 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. from congestive heart failure, the New York Times reports. Love built the Big Bird costume, in addition…
Mediacom Communications will add video-on-demand programming from the Pentagon Channel to its service in the Escambia and Santa Rosa counties of Florida, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Among the programs to be offered from the channel, which is a satellite-TV service…
Filmmaker George Lucas testified in front of the House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee in support of high-speed Internet access for students, school and libraries, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Lucas argued that connection fees for wiring schools and libraries should be…
A GroupM study found that the mean average of time spent online is expected to rise to 46 minutes from 27 minutes in 2005, Broadcasting & Cable reports. However, the study claims traditional media forms such as television are not…
Sinclair Broadcast Group will buy a Raycom Media station in Richmond-Petersburg, Va., Broadcasting & Cable reports. Sinclair will pay $85 million for the assets of WTVR, a CBS affiliate in the market, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman