Internet activist Julian Assange is being sought in connection with a rape case that has been under investigation in Sweden for three months, and Swedish authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest, The Wall Street Journal reports. Assange is…
Jeff Zucker, in an interview at the Paley Center for Media in New York this morning, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, was asked what he did best and what he did worst during his tenure running NBC Universal. First, Zucker gave…
The "Media Rating Council (MRC) has pulled its accreditation of Nielsen measurement in its 154 diary-only markets, effective back to 2009." So begins a must-read article in B&C. This only affects smaller markets that don’t have meters, the article notes….
Fox Broadcasting has decided who wil be its new president of ad sales,, replacing Jon Nesvig, who previoulsy said he will retire at the end of the year, reports Jon Lafayette at B&C. The new president of Fox ad sales will be Toby…
Hulu is reducing the price of its subscription service by 20%, heating up its competition with Netflix, reports Bloomberg News. Hulu Plus will now cost $7.99 per month, versus its pricing during the service’s trial period of $9.99 each month,…
John Budkins has been picked to head syndication buying for the CBS Television Stations Group as VP, programming and scheduling, TVNewsCheck reported. Budkins has been working the other side of the syndie business as VP of sales, Northeast region, for…
In another sign that Tiger Woods is trying to reach out to the public in ways he never used to, he signed up for Twitter today, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. He’s got about 140,000 followers thus far. Woods himself is only…
Freedom Communications has put its eight TV stations up for sale. Asking price is $400 million to $500 million,reports TVNewsCheck Says the article, "The asking price for the eight TV stations works out to eight to 10 times estimated 2010…
A talk show host who has already written three bestsellers has been given her own book imprint by her publisher, reports Mike Fleming at Deadline.com. The author is Chelsea Handler, who hosts E! Entertainment’s “Chelsea Lately.” Hachette Book Group USA’s…
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt had some damning words for the top broadcast networks during a keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, reports Mediaweek. Schmidt portrayed the broadcast networks as standing in the way of innovation…