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DirecTV is adding new interactive features that will alert NFL Sunday Ticket viewers when their favorite players make big plays. Player Tracker allows viewers to select up to nine players in Sunday Ticket games. When one of the players scores…
Placement Deal Will Shine Spotlight on Missing Kids
Commercials, Viral Videos Rolling Out
The bloom is off syndicated dating shows, with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution ending production on its series “ElimiDate” and NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution confirming it is only airing repeats of “Blind Date” for the 2006-07 season.“Blind Date” has…
Wallace Interviews Iranian President
Former daytime talk show host Mike Douglas died Friday on his 81st birthday in West Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Douglas hosted a daytime talk show for 21 years from 1961 to 1982, personifying the genial, friendly talk style also practiced…
Advertising agencies are asking Nielsen Media Research to drop VCR recordings from the average commercial ratings it plans to calculate next season.All shows recorded by VCRs have been included in program ratings because Nielsen has been unable to come up…
Former reality series producer Jennifer Bresnan has been named senior VP of alternative programming for The CW, making her the top reality series executive for the new broadcast network.Ms. Bresnan will supervise the ongoing production of The CW’s current reality…
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution’s syndicated talk strip “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” has been renewed on 10 NBC Universal stations through the 2009-10 season.NBC Universal stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Miami, San…
Syndication stalwarts “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!” will be distributed in high definition starting Sept. 11. King World Productions and Sony Pictures Television are spending more than $4 million to upgrade the shows, which have been shooting in HD for…