The mayor of Utica, N.Y., isn’t happy with the local news that sometimes appears on WKTV, the city’s NBC affiliate station, reports WKTV.com. That’s because the local news from Scranton-Wilkes Barre, Pa., occasionally ends up in the Utica market, prompting…
A $211 million takeover offer from Canadian real estate company Huntingdon Real Estate Investment Trust, which wants to buy Seattle station KOMO-TV, was spurned by the station’s owner, Fisher Communications, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported. The offer represented an…
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" has replaced its one executive producer with three co-executive producers. The announcement was made by Comedy Central, the network that airs the multple Emmy Award-winning program. According to the announcement, "Veteran ‘Daily Show’ staff…
MGM, the fabled studio that recently emerged from bankruptcy, has partnered with a broadcast group to distribute classic old TV shows. According to the announcement, "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Weigel Broadcasting Co. announced today plans for the national launch…
‘TMZ,’ the breakthrough cross-platform syndicated entertainment news program from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Syndication has been renewed through 2014, the syndicator has announced. Thus far it’s been renewed in more than 75% of the country, including "all of the owned-and-operated…
With all five Federal Communications Commissioners heading to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, the Comcast/NBC Universal merger deal isn’t likely to be voted upon until at least next week, Multichannel News reports. Chairman Julius Genachowski is…
CBS Television Distribution has found a successor to Terry Wood, the president of creative affairs and development who recently left the company after 12 years, reports Deadline.com. The company has tapped Aaron Meyerson, who joins CTD from digital media tech…
The most influential television shows in 2010, as measured by Twitter mentions, aren’t so surprising except for what Klout.com calls "the dark horse of the list": the Fox News show "Red Eye." "Red Eye With Greg Gutfeld" is a satirical…
Veteran character actor Bill Erwin, who received an Emmy nomination for his guest role on NBC’s "Seinfeld," has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 96. Erwin played the angry Sid Fields, an elderly man Seinfeld volunteers to watch…
Oprah Winfrey’s new OWN network got off to a good start, with an average of 1 million viewers for its first evening of prime-time programming on Saturday, reports the New York Daily News. That’s an increase of almost 400% over…