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TV Guide Channel Replaces Rivers Duo With Rinna

Joan Rivers, once the queen of Hollywood’s red carpets, is being dropped by TV Guide Channel and replaced with Lisa Rinna.Ms. Rivers and her daughter Melissa moved to TV Guide Channel from E! Entertainment in 2005. “TV Guide Channel is…

Shapiro-Mathes Heads to TLC

(Corrects her new title)Angela Shapiro-Mathes is leaving Fox Television Studios to run TLC. The FTVS president will take the title of president and general manager of the lifestyle cable network, announced David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications, at…

KCET Programs Sheen to Host Warner Bros. Movies

Martin Sheen will host “KCET Saturday Night Movie,” launching in May on the Los Angeles public television station in a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution.The “Saturday Night Movie” will feature titles from Warner’s library every week. It’s set…

Friendly, Rosenzweig Join USC Panel

Students can learn what it takes to work in the industry at USC’s Insider’s Guide to the Entertainment Industry panel.The keynote speaker is Andy Friendly, executive producer and former executive VP of King World programming and production. Panelists include Jaleesa…

ABC Wins Monday With ‘Dancing,’ ‘Bachelor’

ABC topped the Nielsen ratings for another Monday night with 90-minute episodes of “Dancing With the Stars” and “The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman.”Winning in adults 18 to 49 and total viewers, ABC’s “Dancing” had a 4.9 rating in the…

Evans Leads Rainbow Broadband

Rainbow Media Holdings named David Evans as senior VP of Rainbow Broadband, a business group newly created as part of the company’s efforts to maximize new technology and content distribution platforms. Mr. Evans previously was general manager of Newyorkmetro.com, a…

Cable Network Seeks Comedians Online

Comedy Central has launched an online talent competition for stand-up comedians. The winner gets a $10,000 cash prize and will appear in a Comedy Central show.Burger King has signed on as the exclusive sponsor of the contest, called “Open Mic…

CBS Makes Connections

CBS Corp. formed a new cross-platform sales and marketing unit called CBS Connections.The new unit will offer advertising opportunities combining CBS Entertainment, CBS News, CBS Interactive, CBS Sports, CBS Paramount Television, CBS Television Distribution, CSTV, Showtime, CBS Radio and CBS…

AOL Unveils Five Online Programs at Upfront

AOL today is introducing five large-scale interactive entertainment programs for 2007 and 2008 at its First Look event for upfront advertisers in New York.“This game is all about scale and AOL is one of only four companies that has it,”…

YouTube to Roll Out Copyright Tools for Content Owners

Google is currently testing a new set of copyright protection tools for YouTube that could assuage the concerns of rights holders. In addition, the Internet giant also plans to introduce a series of advertising formats on its popular video-sharing site…