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ABC Slates ‘MNF’ Halftime Highlights Package

Singer Tim McGraw will provide background music for a new highlights package that will appear at halftime of “Monday Night Football” games on ABC this season. The highlights represent a return to the earliest days of “MNF,” when Howard Cosell…

CBS News Picks First Participants in Mentoring Program

CBS News has chosen the first two participants in the program it created to connect mentors with journalists of color who have a few years in TV journalism and want to become network correspondents or producers. James Black, who started…

ABC Rejoins NAB; Padden to Take NAB Board Seat

The National Association of Broadcasters announced late Wednesday that ABC has rejoined the association. Under the deal, Preston Padden, executive VP of worldwide government relations for ABC parent The Walt Disney Co., will immediately assume a seat on the NAB…

Liberty’s Robert Bennett to Retire

Liberty Media CEO Robert Bennett announced Wednesday that he will retire as chief executive of the media company April 1, 2006. Liberty Chairman John Malone will assume the CEO title until a successor is named.Mr. Bennett’s retirement follows nine years…

CBS Pulls Back on ‘Rock Star’

CBS is going from three episodes per week of its summer musical competition reality series “Rock Star: INXS” to two episodes, with the Monday edition moving to VH1 on Sundays. “Rock Star” has been a modest success for CBS among…

ABC News Seeks Clarification of Russia Reporting Ban

ABC News was “reaching out” Wednesday to the Russian Foreign Ministry to clarify whether its journalists are indeed banned by the government from working in Russia in response to “Nightline’s” broadcast last week of an interview with Chechen rebel leader…

Mediacom Posts $6 Million Loss for Q2

Cable operator Mediacom Communications announced Wednesday that it swung to a loss in the second quarter amid higher expenses related to the deployment of advanced cable set-top boxes.The Middletown, N.Y.-based company reported a loss of nearly $6 million, compared with…

Showtime to Televise Eminem Concert

Showtime will televise an uncensored concert by Eminem in December, the network said Wednesday. The concert will be taped later this month in New York during the Madison Square Garden stop on the rapper’s Anger Management Tour. “Eminem is one…

TV Station Sale Boosts Sinclair’s Q2 Profit

Sinclair Broadcast Group, the Baltimore-based owner of 61 television stations, said Wednesday that its second-quarter profit surged to $142.6 million from a year-earlier figure of $20.2 million, driven by a $128.5 million gain related to the sale of its Sacramento…

FSN Extends Rights With Pirates, Utah Jazz

FSN reached long-term television rights extensions with the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team and the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association, the network said Wednesday. FSN said it has signed 17 professional teams to exclusive satellite and cable rights deals…