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Verizon on Wednesday said it signed a distribution agreement with NFL Network. Verizon will carry the channel on its Fios TV service when it launches later this year. The agreement also covers NFL Network in HD and NFL on Demand.
MTV Networks is expected to announced as early as Tuesday that Jeff Lucas, president of ad sales for NBC Universal Cable Entertainment is moving to Comedy Central as head of ad sales. Mr. Lucas will be reunited with Comedy Central…
Early Tuesday evening, ABC News finally addressed the planned content from Wednesday’s “primetime>live” examination of salacious charges about Fox’s hit “American Idol.” But before ABC News issued its release about the hour-long special edition, Fox Broadcasting and the producers of…
Despite a dominant Monday night, CBS on Tuesday was tied with a resurgent ABC for the No. 1 spot in the adults 18 to 49 demographic for the May sweeps.For the first five days of the sweeps, which began Thursday,…
ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” was the highest-rated show for the week ended May 1 in the adults 18 to 49 demographic and total viewers, but that wasn’t enough to give the network an overall win in either category.A “CSI-” and “Survivor-“driven…
In a week marked by a scrambled schedules due to President Bush’s last-minute scheduling — and rescheduling — of a live prime-time press conference, “ABC World News Tonight” claimed a viewership victory that, at the very least, requires an asterisk….
Liberty Corp., a South Carolina-based broadcaster that owns 15 network-affiliated television stations, on Tuesday reported a 24 percent decline in first-quarter profit, since the company was impacted by a sharp slowdown in political advertising revenue.The company posted a first-quarter profit…
At CMT’s annual upfront presentation in New York, the network unveiled a new slate of reality programming scheduled for the third and fourth quarter of this year. The new shows include: “Man vs. Vegas”: A man who lost $3 million…
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is calling for entries in a new juried Emmy category: Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking. The category is open to prime-time nonfiction films. Reality programming and works of journalism are not eligible.“Candidates for…
If Charter Communications’ first-quarter results are any indication, the troubled cable operator may be turning a corner.Though the debt-addled cable company that is controlled by billionaire Paul Allen reported a widened first-quarter loss, analysts were generally upbeat about the company…