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Engvall to Host CMT Music Awards

Bill Engvall will host the 2009 CMT Music Awards, airing June 16 on CMT and CMT.com. The awards show will feature performances by Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban…

Tony Awards to Air in HD

The Tony Awards will be broadcast in high definition for the first time on June 7. The 63rd annual Tony Awards will air on CBS live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Presenters for the awards show…

Conan’s ‘Late Night’ Theme Being Adapted for ‘Tonight’

The new theme song for “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” will have a familiar ring to it. That’s because Mr. O’Brien and executive producer Jeff Ross have opted to use a reworked version of Mr. O’Brien’s 16-year-old “Late Night”…

USA’s Sloane Takes Drama Reins at Fox

USA Network development executive Lindsay Sloane is joining Fox Broadcasting, signing on to run drama development with Terence Carter. Ms. Sloane and Mr. Carter have been named co-heads of drama and will be charged with finding new one-hour projects for…

Fox Wins 5th Straight Season in Key 18-49 Demo

CBS Continues to Be Most-Watched Broadcast Network

YouTube Gets Flexible to Pull in Network Partners

As YouTube tries to win over television programmers and the brand advertisers that want to sponsor their shows, the site is offering more flexible terms for providers of premium TV content. The new inducements? Functionality that lets programmers run pre-roll…

Adalian Column: May, the Merry Month of TV Cliches

May is upfront season in the slave-to-the-cycle TV business. It might just as well be called the Month of Cliches. This is the time of the year when executives declare, without any sense of irony, that the past nine months…

Broadcast Networks Holding Firm on Upfront Ad Pricing

Forecast Spending Declines Indicate Sales Volume May Drop

DTV Soft Test Results in Record Number of Helpline Calls

A record number of consumers called the Federal Communications Commission’s national helpline Thursday in response to a nationwide DTV soft test. The FCC helpline received more than 55,000 calls from consumers, a single-day record. The helpline has averaged 15,000 calls…

Fuel Teams With Dish; Pulls in Emmy Noms With ‘FiNS’

Fuel TV, the News Corp. cable channel specializing in action sports such as surfing, struck a deal with the Dish satellite TV service that expands the network’s distribution to almost 30 million U.S. homes. The channel also announced it had…