CNN has acquired a tech company that developed a news app for the iPad, Multichannel News reports. Terms of the deal to acquire Zite were not disclosed. It had been reported recently that CNN was looking to purchase the firm…
NBC has decided who will succeed Dick Ebersol, the former NBC Sports chairman who produced every Olympics since 1992, as the executive producer of NBCUniversal’s 2012 coverage of the London Olympics, reports Deadline.com. The network named “Today” executive producer Jim…
Scripted development has been put on hold at one cable network, with executives telling agents over the past few weeks that the network — Spike — is getting out of the scripted business, reports Deadline.com. One of Spike’s two executives…
With television set prices falling, a large-screen liquid-crystal display TV will soon cost less than an iPad, which is one-tenth of the size, reports Bloomberg. The average price of a 42-inch LCD TV will probably decline 10% this year, ending…
As Irene approached the East Coast Friday, viewers tuned in to one cable news network in unusually large numbers, pushing that network — The Weather Channel — into the lofty position of the most-watched cable news outlet , both in…
AMC has shot a pilot for a talk show that focused on one of the network’s own dramas — an idea that’s similar to Bravo’s successful "Watch What Happens: Live," reports Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. AMC…
Charlie Sheen’s upcoming Comedy Central roast — set to air the same night that "Two and a Half Men" returns to CBS with a new star — presents the troubled actor with the opportunity to set the tone for his…
"The 2011 Video Music Awards scored MTV’s biggest audience in the network’s history with a record-breaking 12.4 million total viewers," MTV has announced. The show, which aried live on MTV on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, also did a big number…
Following weeks of rumors that she has been planning an exit from CBS’s daytime show "The Talk," one of the show’s co-hosts, actress Leah Remini, announced via Twitter that she will not be staying with the show, reports UPI.com. "It…
The Disney Channel announced that it is bringing back a sitcom for a third season, Deadline.com reports. The show is "Good Luck Charlie," which is set to begin production soon for an early 2012 season premiere. "Good Luck Charlie" is…