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‘Entourage’ Gets Fourth Season on HBO

As expected, HBO has renewed its hit series “Entourage” for a fourth season, the network announced Wednesday. The network has ordered 12 new episodes to run in 2007. In addition, seven holdover episodes from the third season will be televised…

YouTube Launches User-Generated Content Contest

YouTube on Wednesday launched a contest, The YouTube Underground, which aims to offer exposure to unsigned bands hoping to get discovered. The contest, sponsored by Cingular, is a user-generated content promotion and the site’s first major music campaign and is…

ABC Wins Tuesday With Two-Hour ‘Dancing’

ABC won Tuesday night in adults 18 to 49 with a special two-hour edition of reality series “Dancing With the Stars,” but Fox’s medical drama “House” walked away as the most-watched program for the night in the demographic.At 8 p.m….

‘Saturday Night Live’ Names Cast, Head Writers

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” starts its 32nd season Sept. 30 with a cast that will look familiar but smaller. Comedian Dane Cook will host the season opener, which will feature The Killers as the musical act.Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz, Finesse…

‘Rachael’ Gains Viewers, ‘Megan’ Audience Shrinks

In its second day in syndication, King World’s daytime talk show “Rachael Ray” attracted a bigger audience while viewers defected from NBC Universal’s “The Megan Mullally Show.”“Rachael” scored a weighted metered-market average 2.9 household rating and 10 share in 55…

‘CSI: Miami’ Debuts as Top Weekly Syndicated Drama

King World’s off-network debut of the weekend hour “CSI: Miami” was the top-rated drama in syndication for the week ended Sept. 17. For its syndie debut, “CSI: Miami” garnered a 4.6 household rating and 5 share combined weighted average in…

Fox Stations Unveil Multiplatform Dating Business

Fox Television Stations plans to make dating a multiplatform business that will attract viewers to a program titled “My Dating Place” and drive traffic to stations’ Web sites by bringing together people in their hometowns. The show, which will air…

Cingular’s VOD Ads Outperform Expectations

Cellular provider Cingular Wireless said Tuesday its early work with video-on-demand advertising has outperformed its expectations by more than a third. The advertiser began a major campaign at the start of the year across VOD networks including RipeTV, Havoc, Music…

CBS Edges Out Weekly Win in Adults 18 to 49

CBS edged out ABC to become the No. 1 network in adults 18 to 49 for the week ended Sept. 17, the week prior to the beginning of the 2006-07 season. But NBC took the honor of having the top…

Viacom’s Dauman Favors Cross-Platform Sales

New Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman told an investor conference that he was looking for new ways to monetize the audience the company’s content attracts. The company can sell specialized audiences, such as kids, or teen or males, but he said…