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Expanding its partnership with cyclist Lance Armstrong, Discovery Networks plans a week-long exploration of survival on Discovery Health Channel called Survivors Week. The week, beginning Oct. 9, will feature real-life stories of medical survival against high odds. Survivors Week kicks…
CBS’s new drama “Ghost Whisperer” was the most watched show of the first Friday of the season, while tying the season premiere of CBS’s procedural one-hour “Numb3rs” for the top spot in the adults 18 to 49 demographic.“Ghost” had 11.3…
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Republican-dominated board elected Cheryl Halpern, a longtime Republican activist, to succeed Ken Tomlinson as the board’s chairman. At the same time the board elected Gay Hart Gaines, a former chair of the GOPAC Republican fund-raising…
In a first for both Google and UPN, Internet site Google will screen the series premiere of the UPN comedy “Everybody Hates Chris” for four days on Google Video beginning Monday. Google users will be able to play the entire…
Discovery Networks U.S. President Billy Campbell announced Monday the promotions of 15-year Discovery veteran Eileen O’Neill to executive VP and general manager of the Discovery Health Channel and Vivian Schiller to executive VP and general manager of the Discovery Times…
Susan Haspel, the executive producer of NBC’s public service campaign “The More You Know,” has been named VP of corporate community affairs for NBC Universal. The announcement was made Monday by Anna Perez, executive VP of communications, to whom she…
Elden Hale Jr. has been promoted to senior VP of the Meredith Broadcasting group and general manager of WSMV-TV, the NBC affiliate in Nashville. In addition, Meredith Broadcasting Group President Paul Karpowicz announced Monday that Klarn DePalma will succeed Mr….
Charter Communications Chairman Paul Allen ranked as the third-richest person in the United States, moving up one notch from a year ago and continuing his reign as the wealthiest person in the media and entertainment industries, according to the latest…
News Corp. appeared to survive a competing bid for Intermix Media Monday after Intermix rejected an unsolicited offer for the company from its former CEO.The former executive, Brad Greenspan, late last week said he was forming an investor group he…
U.S. Digital Television, a Salt Lake City-based company looking to bring cable programming to an over-the-air digital television signal, got a financial boost Monday after a group of station groups, including News Corp.’s Fox Television Stations, invested nearly $26 million…