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Nielsen Media Research told clients on Friday it was again postponing the release of its average commercial minute ratings data. The data originally scheduled to be released in October was delayed last month until Dec. 11 because of several issues,…
YouTube and the lonelygirl15 Internet video series took home prizes Thursday in TelevisionWeek’s first annual Viral Video Awards in recognition of the contribution they made to the development of the new media phenomenon.The lonelygirl15 series won in the category for…
CBS’s crime drama “Criminal Minds” continued to gain steam Wednesday night, becoming the first scripted program to top ABC’s “Lost” in total viewers and matching its best adults 18 to 49 delivery, according to Nielsen Media Research. The 9 p.m….
Verizon Communications filed Thursday for a video franchise in New Jersey that would allow it to offer its FiOS TV service to about 3.1 million households in the state, setting up a new front in its competition with cable operators…
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia on Thursday announced a multiyear agreement to provide how-to multimedia content to the new Yahoo Food channel.Earlier this week, MSLO announced a non-exclusive deal with Google to put its broadcast assets on the Web, with the…
Discovery Communications has acquired Petfinder.com and PetsIncredible and combined them with Animal Planet to form a new unit called Animal Planet Media Enterprises.Ad-supported Petfinder.com facilitates pet adoption via the Internet. PetsIncredible produces and distributes pet training videos and runs the…
The YES Network, home of New York Yankees baseball and New Jersey Nets basketball, plans to run episodes of the classic high-school basketball series “The White Shadow” on Sundays beginning Nov. 5 at 6 p.m. (ET).The cable network has acquired…
“CBS Corporation is right on track,” CBS Corp. Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone said Thursday as CBS Corp. announced a third-quarter performance that included a 26 percent earnings increase from its continuing businesses.Net earnings fell dramatically to $316.9 million, or 41…
Procter & Gamble’s Iams pet-food brand will be the first sponsor of TNT’s Dramatic Difference Movie, a new franchise that will feature profiles of community organizations.The first movie to receive the Dramatic Difference treatment will be “Drumline” on Friday at…
Political advertising spending for 2006 has zoomed past all projections and is heading for the stratosphere, with more than $2 billion likely to be spent. That’s 17.6 percent more than the $1.7 billion spent in 2004, the previous record high…