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CBS Paramount, King World Consolidate PR Divisions
CBS Corp. division CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions are merging their publicity departments, a spokesman for CBS Corp. confirmed. John Wentworth, executive VP of communications at CBS Paramount, will take charge of the combined divisions.As part of…
NBC Regains Ratings Footing
After losing two consecutive nights to Fox in the adults 18 to 49 demographic and in total viewers, NBC was once again the winner in both demos Thursday, thanks to its seventh day of Winter Olympics coverage. But the highest-rated…
Icahn, Time Warner Reach Settlement
Time Warner said Friday that it has reached a truce with billionaire financier Carl Icahn under which Mr. Icahn won’t put up a slate of nominees to the Time Warner board, partly in exchange for Time Warner’s boosting the size…
UPN’s ‘Party’ Is Over
After just two original airings, UPN’s new Tuesday night reality series “Get This Party Started” has been pulled from the network’s schedule, with no return date set. “Party” debuted Feb. 7 with a 0.6 rating in adults 18 to 49,…
MySpace Gets Exclusive Six-Day Showing of FX’s First Music Video
To promote its new documentary series “Black. White.,” News Corp.-owned FX has produced its first music video and has made deals to distribute it via several Web and mobile platforms, including News Corp.-owned MySpace.The music video for the song “Race…
OLN, Arena Football League Reach Agreement
OLN reached an agreement Friday to become the national cable television home of the Arena Football League and this Sunday will televise the first of 11 regular-season games this season. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AFL games will…
Icahn Nears Truce With Time Warner
The escalating battle between Time Warner and billionaire financier Carl Icahn appeared to be nearing an end late Thursday after both sides were in negotiations to settle their months-long dispute.According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Icahn…
New Line TV Offering ‘Lost World’ in Syndication
Time Warner’s New Line Television is offering its 1990s first-run action series “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s the Lost World” for syndication for fall 2006. Fifty-two episodes of the hour-long program will be introduced on a barter-only basis in what New…
Cheney Interview Gives Fox’s ‘Brit Hume’ Best Viewership of Year
Wednesday’s exclusive first interview with Vice President Dick Cheney after he shot and wounded a fellow quail hunter last weekend boosted “Special Report With Brit Hume” to a 2006 high of 2.1 million viewers. “Special Report” at 8 p.m. (ET)…