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Cable network Comedy Central announced Monday it would exclusively air the third season finale of NBC’s recently pre-empted reality series “Last Comic Standing” on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m. (ET).Last week on his Web site “Last Comic” host and…
Strong political advertising revenue coupled with healthy advertising tied to the Summer Olympics helped Gannett’s broadcasting division post double-digit broadcast revenue growth in the third quarter, the company said today.Overall, the newspaper and television company reported an 11 percent rise…
Time Warner Cable and Comcast Corp. are joining with the New York Mets to form a new regional sports network. Financial terms were not disclosed. The new as yet unnamed channel will be managed by Comcast and will obtain the…
DreamWorks Animation SKG, the animation house behind film hits such as “Shrek” and “Shark Tale” and the television series “Father of the Pride,” set terms Tuesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering, outlining plans to raise as much as…
The second of three presidential debates on Oct. 8 was seen by an estimated 47.7 million people on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. That’s up considerably from the…
Mission Broadcasting on Monday said it had hired Dennis Thatcher as executive VP and chief operating officer of the 14- station group.Mr. Thatcher joins Brecksville, Ohio-based Mission from KZTV-TV in Corpus Christi, Texas, and KVTV-TV in Laredo, Texas, where he…
Turner Classic Movies has opened a brick-and-mortar retail outlet in Los Angeles, the network announced Monday. In the Picture is described as an “experimental marketing venture” that sells classic movie memorabilia. The store, located in the upscale The Grove shopping…
ABCNews.com has received a makeover that includes searches powered by Google, more headlines displayed on the home page, an expanded “ABC News On Demand” video section (and one free video clip per day), and an advertising plan that is designed…
Rainbow Media Holdings on Monday hired two new executives and promoted two others as the media company prepares for its planned split from parent Cablevision Systems.The company hired Glenn Oakley as senior VP, new business development, in charge of identifying,…
Sinclair Broadcasting has kicked up another politically charged controversy by planning to pre-empt prime-time programming on as many as 62 Sinclair-owned or -operated stations to run a documentary critical of the Vietnam-era antiwar activities of Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic…