A respected NBCUniversal executive has been promoted to chief operating officer of Universal Cable Productions, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The exec is Beth Roberts, who will report to Bonnie Hammer, chairman of NBCUniversal’s Cable Entertainment and…
Fox’s upcoming singing competition "X Factor" has signed its second major advertiser, and that advertiser can be expected to place products in the programming, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. The show signed General Motors as a larger sponsor, marking…
Amid a campaign by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Hispanic Media Coalition, AT&T has dropped advertising from the talk show "Jose Luis Sin Censura," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Two stations–WSVN-TV in Miami and KCTU-TV…
One of the legendary players of the National Basketball Association has announced his retirement. Having recently completed his 19th season in the league, Shaquille O’Neal, 39, who won three NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, has decided to retire….
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has sent a letter to Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman, demanding an on-air apology for the "60 Minutes" report in which another cyclist accused Armstrong of having used performance enhancing drugs while in…
NBC got a shot in the ratings arm from Tuesday night’s two-hour season premiere of “America’s Got Talent” and a new installment of the network’s breakout singing competition “The Voice,” TVbytheNumbers.com reported. “Talent” had its most-watched season premiere ever with…
Syfy announced today that it has appointed Scott Vila to the newly created position of vice president, current programming, scripted. Vila, who had a hand in water cooler hits “24,” “Dark Angel” and “Firefly,” will report to Erik Storey, senior…
As insiders chew on the implications of Apple’s sudden moves into the cloud computing space, tech writer Lance Ulanoff says in a piece in PCMag that Apple’s Steve Jobs has effectively claimed cloud technology–rapidly becoming known as iCloud–as his company’s…
NBC has announced a pair of key personnel moves as it assembles the team for the upcoming prime-time newsmagazine being built around Brian Williams. Rome Hartman, a veteran BBC America executive producer, is leaving that network to join NBC as…
After a story in an Italian magazine in which Patrick Dempsey revealed that next season’s "Grey’s Anatomy" would be his last, the actor clarified his comment, saying that he isn’t necessarily leaving, according to E! Online. Dempsey’s press rep told…