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Spike TV has acquired the rights to the six “Star Wars” movies, the network confirmed Wednesday, in a package valued at an estimated $65 million to $70 million. In April 2008, Spike will have the advertiser-supported television premiere of the…
ABC Family has picked up eight additional episodes of its family drama “Beautiful People,” the network confirmed Tuesday. The Sony Pictures Television series has averaged 1.2 million viewers, up 23 percent over the same time period last year. The new…
“The Colbert Report,” Comedy Central’s spinoff of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” premiered Monday to strong numbers, retaining 98 percent of its “Daily Show” lead-in audience. The series, a parody of cable news pundit programs, is hosted by longtime…
Former Nickelodeon and Spike TV executive Albie Hecht said Tuesday he launched a new digital media company called Worldwide Biggies Inc. that will specialize in family entertainment.Mr. Hecht said his new company has signed an exclusive two-year television production deal…
XM Satellite Radio, which recently passed the 5 million subscriber mark, announced Tuesday it has made a deal to launch a new channel, which will be known as the Fox News Talk Channel, nationally in January 2006.The new 24-hour channel…
Sumner Redstone’s Viacom announced Tuesday that it expects to conduct its planned breakup sooner than initially thought, with the split expected to occur by the end of the year. The company had said it would complete the breakup in the…
CBS beat back ABC for the week ended Oct. 16 to finally take the top spot among the networks in the adults 18 to 49 demographic, ending ABC’s three-week winning streak in the demo.ABC still had the top show in…
In a blow to broadcasters, a spokeswoman for the Senate Commerce Committee said Tuesday that legislation that could settle a fight between broadcasters and cable TV operators over multicast carriage rules and other important issues related to the digital TV…
CMT has signed a one-year agreement with NASCAR Images to produce quarterly highlight specials on NASCAR’s auto racing series, the network announced Tuesday. The first special, “NASCAR’s Most Dramatic Finishes,” will run Oct. 28.“Airing original NASCAR programming is a natural…
The Disney-ABC communications division has been reorganized along functional roles into six areas reporting to Communications Senior VP Kevin Brockman.“While each channel and network daypart retains a senior executive responsible for its day-to-day communications strategy, we’ll now have an executive…