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By Adam SandlerSpecial to TelevisionWeek “The Ashlee Simpson Show” has struck a chord with viewers. Ms. Simpson, the actress-turned-pop thrush once best known for playing Cecilia on “7th Heaven,” can lay claim to having one of MTV’s most successful series….
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The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that Comcast has agreed to pay $225,000 as part of a consent decree ending an investigation into whether the company violated the agency’s public file regulations last year.The investigation was spurred by a complaint…
DirecTV Group said Friday it would take a one-time, pre-tax noncash charge of $1.4 billion to $1.6 billion in the third quarter in connection with the planned launch of two satellites next year.The disclosure, made in a Securities and Exchange…
Newspaper and television station group Belo on Friday said that its third-quarter profit tumbled 64 percent, hurt by one-time charges taken in the quarter related to a circulation overstatement at the company’s flagship newspaper The Dallas Morning News, the shutting…
“Entertainment Tonight and “The Insider” correspondent Steven Cojocaru has filmed a pilot for Paramount Domestic Television that could lead to a one-hour syndicated strip starring the fashion and pop culture diva.Mr. Cojocaru, the former West Coast style editor for People…
NBC’s newest reality offering, “The Biggest Loser,” debuted Tuesday, Oct. 19 with a 90-minute special that brought in female viewers but was still down year to year in adults 18 to 49.The show, in which overweight contestants compete to lose…
A one-hour TV special covering the 15th Annual Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Awards has been cleared in syndication in 80 percent of the country. L’Ore´al Paris is the title sponsor of the live event and the syndicated hour.The…
Rainbow Media Enterprises, the programming and satellite operator unit slated to be spun off from parent Cablevision Systems later this year, on Friday named Joseph Lhota and John Adamovich as co-chief financial officers.Both executives will report to Rainbow CEO Thomas…
Former Viacom Entertainment Group Chairman Jonathan Dolgen was elected to serve on the board of Paul Allen’s Charter Communications, the cable operator announced Friday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.Mr. Dolgen was ousted in July from Viacom and presently…