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The Senate appropriations subcommittee voted Tuesday to restore much of the financial ground that public broadcasting lost in the House of Representatives last month. Under the Senate deal, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s $400 million appropriation for next year remains…
Publishing and broadcasting company Media General on Tuesday reported a 107 percent surge in second-quarter profit, helped by a one-time gain related to the sale of an investment in the Denver Post newspaper.Richmond, Va.-based Media General, which owns 26 television…
London-based CNN international correspondent Matthew Chance will become senior international correspondent, based in Moscow, in August. Mr. Chance, a freelancer who joined CNN in 2001 to report on Afghanistan, has been particularly high-profile of late, reporting on the G8 summit…
BET on Tuesday named filmmaker Reginald Hudlin president of entertainment for the network. Mr. Hudlin will be in charge of BET’s music, entertainment, specials, sports, news, public affairs, film, program acquisitions, home entertainment and programming development units.
The National Association of Broadcasters announced Tuesday that broadcasters will support a law that would require TV stations to switch to digital by 2009. In addition, NAB said it is willing to discuss having broadcasters take on new quantified public…
CBS News and CBS Digital Media will be turning CBSNews.com into a multiplatform digital news network that will create a 24-hour on-demand news service.CBS News President Andrew Heyward and CBS Digital Media President Larry Kramer made the announcement Tuesday.They said…
AMC said Tuesday it plans to appeal a New York State Supreme Court ruling that Time Warner Cable can drop the channel due to changes to its programming. AMC, owned by Cablevision’s Rainbow Media unit, sued to prevent Time Warner…
DirecTV plans to carry MTV Desi, a channel designed to serve young South Asian Americans, effective Tuesday, the network said Monday. MTV said MTV Desi is the first MTV World channel to launch and that it expects to launch MTV…
Christian broadcaster Daystar Television Network has petitioned a California appeals court to allow the network to purchase Orange County, Calif.’s PBS station for its original bid of $25.1 million, two weeks after the court overturned the sale of KOCE-TV to…
Veteran live concert and special event director Bruce Gowers and producers Renato Basile and Michael Seligman have been added to the production team for the “57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards,” which will be broadcast Sunday, Sept. 18 (8-11 p.m., live…