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Sundance to Carry College TV Award Winners

Sundance Channel will be bringing added exposure to the College Television Awards this year as they partner with The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation to feature the winners both on-air and on its Web site.“We’re thrilled that Sundance…

‘Idol’ Outshines State of the Union

Coverage of the president’s State of the Union Address blanketed the 9 p.m. hour among all the major networks, while “American Idol” at 8 p.m. earned a higher rating than all four network airings of the Address combined. “Idol” garnered…

Buena Vista Publicity Promotes Warren

Buena Vista Television has promoted longtime publicity staple Barbara Warren to vice president of publicity for the distributor. In recent years, Ms. Warren has been running publicity efforts for Buena Vista talk show “Live with Regis and Kelly.” Ms. Warren…

ROO Buys MyVideoDaily

Online video technology provider ROO said it has acquired software publishing company MyVideoDaily for $350,000 plus up to 500,000 ROO shares based on reaching certain milestones. ROO will use MyVideoDaily’s search-marketing tools to introduce new users to content, ROO said…

Scripps Boosts Feinbaum

Scripps Networks has upped Ron Feinbaum to executive VP of business development for the company. He previously served as general manager and senior VP of Scripps Networks Interactive and made his mark shepherding Scripps’ entrée into online video and broadband…

Lifetime Renews ‘Life Among the Dead’

Lifetime Television renewed its reality series “Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead” for a second season.The show is the first new original program to be renewed since Susanne Daniels joined Lifetime Entertainment Services as entertainment president in September 2005.“The outpouring…

Fuse to Drop Trou Opposite Super Bowl

Clothes will be coming off at halftime during the Super Bowl halftime show again this year. This time, though, instead of CBS, which is carrying the game again this year, the wardrobe malfunction will be televised by fuse, which is…

’24’ Showrunner Watches Ratings ‘Obsessively’

The morning after this week’s episode of Fox’s “24,” executive producer Howard Gordon was on the phone, insistently seeking ratings information on how the program fared.“I look at them obsessively,” Mr. Gordon said of the ratings in a Tuesday interview…

‘Behrendt’ Show Axed by Sony

Sony Pictures Television daytime talk program “The Greg Behrendt Show” is officially the third casualty of the season for syndicators. Production crew and staff members were informed Tuesday that the series was ending production and would not return next fall…

Congress, FCC to Examine TV Ads and Kids Obesity

The controversy over the role TV ads play in kids obesity is mounting again as Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin today unveiled plans for a Valentine’s Day forum to examine potential voluntary actions…