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The Senate Wednesday night voted to confirm the nominations of Deborah Taylor Tate and Michael Copps to seats at the Federal Communications Commission. Ms. Tate, a director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, is a Republican. Mr. Copps, an incumbent Democrat…
Roger Ailes has a new contract that will pay him a $5 million annual base salary plus an annual bonus of at least $1 million and plus performance-based bonuses to serve for the next five years as chairman and CEO…
Spanish-language Telemundo Communications Group for the first time is going to be included in Nielsen Media Research’s National Television Index. The announcement Wednesday followed by a day the news that the more powerful Univision would become the first Spanish-language network…
The Senate on Wednesday approved a compromise measure that would require broadcasters to make the switch to digital TV by Feb. 17, 2009. But the Senate deleted a few unrelated provisions from the massive budget bill in which the DTV…
The issue of succession at Time Warner became clearer Wednesday after the company named Jeff Bewkes as president and chief operating officer and announced that Don Logan, chairman of Time Warner’s media and communications group, would retire at year-end.The move…
Former ABC News “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel and former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw will be interviewed by Tim Russert on the Christmas Day edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press.” They are scheduled to talk about politics, press and…
John Orlando, who has spent five years with the National Association of Broadcasters, most recently serving as executive VP of government relations, is returning to CBS on Jan. 17 as Washington senior VP for the new CBS Corp., after the…
As expected, Time Warner’s America Online reached an agreement late Tuesday with online search company Google, under which Google will make a billion-dollar investment in AOL and deepen its advertising partnership with the online service.Under the terms of the deal…
The WB Network became the latest network to deliver content on cellphones when the network announced Tuesday a deal with Verizon Wireless to offer clips of several series on the wireless provider’s V Cast video service.As part of the alliance,…
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