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HBO will schedule its new series “Rome” to air seven days a week on its channels, including each episode’s premiere Sunday nights at 9 p.m. beginning Aug. 28, the network said Wednesday. The previous week’s episode will rerun at 8…
Comedy Central will televise a roast of actress Pamela Anderson on Aug. 14, the network said Wednesday. The program will be taped Aug. 7 in Los Angeles and will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Ms. Anderson is the first woman…
Nielsen Media Research has agreed to allow time to have an audit done in new Local People Meter markets before the meter-only LPM service replaces the old diary-meter service in each market. The agreement does not capitulate to those client-critics…
NBC is pulling the plug on its high-profile, eight-part “9/11” miniseries, a project that top network executives were heavily promoting as late as the May upfronts. The project was designed to give a far-reaching account of the airline hijackings and…
Driven by its summer reality hit “Dancing With the Stars” and the NBA finals, ABC won the week ended June 26 in adults 18 to 49, but CBS prevailed in total viewers.Game 7 of the NBA finals on Thursday, June…
NBC Universal turned to one of its station ad sales executives for its new head of cable entertainment sales. Mark Miller, who was executive VP of national sales for the NBC Universal Television Stations, was named senior VP of NBC…
Producer Mark Wolper and the Wolper Organization have inked a deal with Feld Entertainment, producer of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, to develop a range of programs related to the circus, such as celebrity-driven reality shows and a…
Paxson Communications said Tuesday it is dropping the Pax TV Network name and changing its programming strategy. The company’s new brand, called “i,” will focus on offering independent producers and syndicators a national platform for their content. The new format…
ABC News, Disney Online and ESPN.com announced Tuesday that their free audio podcast content now is available via the extensive iTunes Podcast Directory. Users can subscribe to this content, among other podcasts, and iTunes will automatically download new episodes into…
Emmis Communications Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Smulyan on Tuesday said he is “cautiously optimistic” that his company will get more than $1 billion for the 16-station television group it put up for sale in May.Separately, the company reported that it…