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‘Peanuts’ Brand Sold by Scripps to Iconix

Two months after launching a review of their character licensing business, media giant E.W. Scripps has sold United Media Licensing — which includes the Charles Schulz "Peanuts" line — to Iconix Brand Group — formerly known as Candie’s — for…

Verizon’s FiOS, in a First, to Offer YouTube and Internet Radio Over TV

Verizon is claiming a first for television after signing new deals that it says will allow its FiOS service to offer both YouTube and Internet radio on the small screen, The Hollywood Reporter reports.  The newest FiOS capabilities come after…

‘Avatar’ Brings in Another $130 Million, This Time From DVD and Blu-Ray Sales; Even in 2D It’s the Fastest-Selling Blu-Ray Disc Ever

Since April 22 through Sunday, April 25 movie box-office champ "Avatar" added another $130 million in sales, this time from DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, according to the Associated Press. ‘Avatar’ sold 4 million DVDs and 2.7 million Blu-Ray discs, the…

Cable Operators Looking at Next-Gen Broadband Speeds Up to 5 Gigabits Per Second

Cable operators are looking at next-generation broadband speeds up to 6 gigabits per second, Multichannel News reports. That would be possible if there was an entirely new way of conceiving data-over-coax transmission, the article says, noting that the entity investigating…

Leno’s Ratings Trend Oddly Mirroring Conan O’Brien’s When You Make Comparisons by Week Number

After seven weeks of Jay Leno’s second round on "The Tonight Show," it’s clear that his ratings trend is "eerily similar to Conan O’Brien’s," Bill Gorman at TVbytheNumbers.com writes. "Jay’s beaten David Letterman’s ‘Late Show’ all seven weeks, but so did…

Not Pretty: Jenny McCarthy’s Encounter with Steven Seagal During an Audition; She Claims He Asked Her to Strip

Steven Seagal, who was recently sued for for sexual assault and trafficking women for sex (which shut down the shooting of his A&E TV show, "Lawman"), was accused by Jenny McCarthy of unprofessional conduct during an audition a number of years ago….

Georgia TV Station Finds Use for Apple’s iPads, Thus Saving Money by Replacing Paper Scripts

It’s not just early-adopter gear heads who are snapping up Apple iPads. A Georgia television station has replaced its newscasts’ paper scripts with six entry-level iPads, which cost $499 each, TVNewsCheck reports. "By using the iPad, we’re saving hundreds of…

Why Procter & Gamble Has Committed to Spend $100 Million on the Oprah Winfrey Network

Procter & Gamble has pledged $100 million in advertising spending for the yet-to-be-debuted Oprah Winfrey Network, Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age reports. The three-year deal also includes the ability for P&G to buy product integration into OWN programs. While the…

CBS Marketing Executive Ron Scalera Dies at 49

CBS Marketing Group Executive Vice President and Creative Director Ron Scalera died on Wednesday in Los Angeles, according to TVNewsCheck. He was 49. Scalera had collapsed during a morning walk,, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Scalera joined CBS in 1997…

Forget Google: How Facebook Will Dominate the World (The Online World, Anyway)

"Simply put, Facebook is positioning itself to become deeply embedded in almost every single website. And the way it’s structuring this platform, it places Facebook itself at the center of Web more than ever." That’s the word from Chris O’Brien…