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Granite Broadcasting on Monday filed for protection under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The filing included a plan of reorganization that has been pre-negotiated with the company’s secured debt holders and…
The Federal Communications Commission today held its second media consolidation hearing in Nashville and immediately heard warnings from country music singers and songwriters about the impact of radio consolidation. With TV issues to be discussed in a panel later today,…
In another step in its reshuffle of senior management, NBC Universal on Monday named Bridget Baker to the new post of president of NBC Universal Networks Distribution. Ms. Baker had been executive VP of cable distribution and reported to David…
Video-on-demand network Music Choice will expand its reach later this month with a launch across Time Warner Cable, Music Choice said Monday. The network will debut in New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Dallas this month, with additional rollouts to…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin’s bid to get Commissioner Robert McDowell to participate in a deadlocked FCC decision on an AT&T/BellSouth merger is angering congressional Democrats.Democrats, who took control of Congress in the November election, are livid that Mr….
Cal Perry has been promoted by CNN to Baghdad bureau chief after several months as director of the bureau. He succeeds Kevin Flower, recently named Jerusalem bureau chief. Mr. Perry joined CNN in 2003 as an editor on the international…
The corporate owners of Fox, CBS and NBC are discussing plans to build an online video destination for their TV shows that could compete with Google-owned YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reported late last week. News Corp., Viacom and NBC…
Dan Davids, a 22-year veteran of A&E Television Networks, is out as president of its History Channel, the company said Monday. Nancy Dubuc, a senior VP for nonfiction programming and new media, will succeed him, taking the title of executive…
TelevisionWeek is trawling video-sharing Web sites to find the hottest clips spreading on the Internet. Visit TVWeek.com to view the latest. The setup: Now that YouTube is becoming a bastion for corporate clips, what’s a Web voyeur to do but…
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