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Fox News Channel coverage Sunday of Hurricane Katrina set a high-water ratings mark for the year for the channel. According to data from Nielsen Media Research, Fox’s total-day average of 2.34 million viewers was the highest of 2005. In prime…
Oscar winner Charlize Theron has agreed to appear in a five-episode arc on Fox’s single-camera comedy “Arrested Development.” Ms. Theron, who begins shooting the series this week, plays a British woman who ends up dating the show’s central character, Michael…
Fox’s new Monday night drama “Prison Break” resonated with viewers, with the two-hour premiere giving the network its highest ratings for the summer and its highest Monday summer night numbers in seven years.“Break” scored a 4.6 preliminary national rating in…
Court TV has ended its relationship with Diane Dimond, whose contract the network did not renew. Ms. Dimond is best known for her coverage of the Michael Jackson trial. She also served as a fill-in anchor on some of the…
Ad spending on Spanish-language TV jumped 15 percent in the first half of 2005, compared with a year ago, according to Nielsen Monitor-Plus. The Spanish-language TV gain was the largest increase across the media sectors measured by Nielsen. Total ad…
Brad Bessey has been promoted to co-executive producer of Paramount’s newsmagazine strip “Entertainment Tonight.” The announcement was made Monday by “ET” executive producer Linda Bell Blue. Mr. Bessey is being promoted from his current position as senior producer. He will…
NBC has promoted Greg Downey to VP of network and branded entertainment business affairs for NBC Entertainment. Mr. Downey will handle business affairs for both the broadcast network and NBC Universal cable-branded entertainment teams, in addition to day-to-day business affairs…
Among the news anchors and correspondents who will present awards at the 26th Annual News and Documentary Emmys Monday, Sept. 19, in New York will be ABC News’ Elizabeth Vargas, CBS News’ Bob Schieffer, Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour…
Starting this weekend ESPN will carry six weeks of college football games on its ESPN 360 custom broadband service. That includes more than 24 live games online, up from seven last year. The online coverage includes three games that are…
Detroit’s public television station WTVS-TV will be the first station outside of the Fox affiliates to adopt the Fox local station blueprint for high definition. WTVS signed a deal with equipment provider Terayon to use its technology to switch between…