YouTube today unveiled the first online TV channel in an initiative that will bring a series of channels with original content to the platform, Multichannel News reports. The new channel is ClevverTeVe, a Spanish-language entertainment news channel created in partnership…
Radio shock jock Howard Stern is in "serious negotiations" to join a television talent competition show as a judge, The Wall Street Journal reports. (Please note that the WSJ is behind a pay wall and not all readers may be…
After his network lost out to ABC in its bid for broadcast rights to the Country Music Awards, CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves reportedly has banned coverage of the event on "Entertainment Tonight," according to the New York Post’s Page…
An advertiser has pulled its spending from two Penn State football games that are slated to air on ESPN, citing "allegations surrounding the Penn State football program," reports The Wall Street Journal. (Please note that the WSJ is behind a…
CBS’s "The Talk" has hit a season high in the ratings, not long after the debut of a new lineup for the morning chat show. The high mark follows the hiring of Aisha Tyler, an actress known for her work…
Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer said he will continue in his job and will turn around the Japanese electronics and entertainment company, reports Bloomberg. "I’m up for the fight,” Stringer, 69, said at an event this week in New…
With plans in the works to move two recently canceled soap operas to an online network, one of the soaps has run into a hurdle, ABCSoapsInDepth.com reports. Plans to shift the former ABC soap opera “One Life to Live” continue…
Showtime has announced the renewal of a comedy series that has become a fixture for the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. "Weeds" will return for an eighth season, as the pay cable net ordered 13 new…
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman said his company and the Nielsen Co. will look into an “anomaly” in ratings for Nickelodeon, Advertising Age reports, citing a Bloomberg News story. The sudden double-digit drop in ratings, which Dauman called “inexplicable,” occurred in…
Spike TV has named a Disney/ABC Cable Networks Group executive to the post of executive VP, programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tom Zappala, recently the executive vice president of acquisitions and scheduling at Disney/ABC, gets the Spike job, the…