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Fox has ordered a third full season of its Emmy Award-winning but ratings-challenged single-camera comedy series “Arrested Development.” Peter Liguori, president of entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Co., made the announcement Monday. “It’s my first official pickup since taking the job,”…
CNN.com’s long-awaited new video-on-demand strategy will start June 20, when the Web site joins its competitors in offering free advertiser-supported video-on-demand. The second stage of the strategy, which is scheduled for fall, will involve an array of new subscription services…
Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, said Monday that the Senate Commerce Committee will hold hearings on allegations that the Big 4 TV networks are abusing retransmission consent rules by requiring cable operators to pay for cable networks that neither they nor…
Alliance Atlantis Communications, the Canadian broadcasting and production company that co-produces the “CSI” series, reported Monday that it swung to a first-quarter profit, driven in part by the strength of the “CSI” franchise.The Toronto-based company posted a profit of $23.2…
Sinclair Broadcast Group said Monday it has sold its Fox affiliate in the Virginia-Tennessee Tri-Cities market to BlueStone Television and Aurora Broadcasting for $7 million.As part of the deal, Bluestone will receive the broadcasting assets of WEMT-TV for $5.6 million,…
MTV Networks’ upcoming gay-themed channel Logo is teaming with LPI Media, publisher of The Advocate magazine, to create television specials and an online news service. The deal calls for Logo and LPI to produce five specials a year based on…
Concerned that Federal Communications Commission Republicans will launch a new effort to relax media ownership rules, FCC Democrat Michael Copps urged watchdog representatives Saturday to “jump in with both feet” to organize opposition now. “Don’t let the usual suspects inside…
MTV has greenlighted a new reality series “Run’s House,” produced by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs,’ Bad Boy TV and Russell Simmons, the network announced Monday. Dubbed “television’s first hip-hop reality sitcom,” the series centers on the real-life family of Reverend…
NBC announced its fall 2005 schedule Monday, putting three new series in the 8 p.m. (ET) hour, a chronic problem area for the network over the past season.Kevin Reilly, president of NBC Entertainment, said in a conference call with reporters…
ABC’s “All My Children” and public broadcasting’s “Reading Rainbow” earned four Emmys each to lead the list of honorees at Saturday’s 32nd Annual Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards ceremonies, held simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles and presented by…