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Google’s YouTube and Universal Music Group are creating a Web site called Vevo to show music videos, Multichannel News reports. The companies will share advertising sales from YouTube, which will have a Vevo channel and embedded player, and the Vevo…
Verizon has started building its FiOS fiber-optic television service network in Philadelphia, which it plans to begin offering later this year, Multichannel News reports. The network construction will take until 2016 and will eventually reach about 660,000 households in the…
Ratings for the fifth-season debut on April 7 of FX’s “Rescue Me” were down 18% among total viewers compared with its fourth-season debut in June 2007, Multichannel News reports, citing Nielsen Media Research live-plus-same-day data. The network is watching the…
Hopeful models under 5 foot 7 will get a chance to audition for “America’s Next Top Model” at the Hotel Pennsylvania’s Penn Plaza Pavilion on Saturday, the New York Post reports. It’s a make-up for last month’s audition, which ended…
The bad economy doesn’t mean the upfront TV advertising market will collapse, according to NBC Universal boss Ben Silverman. “If you’re going to get out of a recession, you need to sell stuff,” the co-chairman at NBC Entertainment and NBC…
ESPN has slated the debut of ESPNChicago.com for April 13, before the Chicago Cubs’ home opener, Mediaweek reports. The debut will include a new ad technology that will target visitors according to location with ads in live audio streaming and…
TNT has canceled “Trust Me” after one season, the New York Times reports. The show, which starred Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh as ad agency executives, averaged 1.4 million viewers per episode during its 13-episode run, the newspaper says. Network…
Dish Network has made an agreement to add HD feeds for several of MTV Networks’ and BET Networks’ channels to its roster. CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike TV and VH1 now are available in HD at no additional cost…
Emerging whole and maybe even healthier on the other side of the recession is sort of like sticking to a diet—it takes practice and discipline, and you can’t cheat. To devise the recession-buster diet for the media and advertising business,…
The Twitterverse and blogosphere rose up last week up in a preemptive bid to keep NBC’s “Chuck” on the air. Yeah, I know: You’ve heard this story a thousand times before, from “My So-Called Life” to “Moonlight.” The plotline never…