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Fox News Anchor Gets New Multi-Year Contract

Fox News has re-signed one of its anchors to a new multi-year contract, reports TheWrap.com. Terms were not announced for the deal between Fox News Channel and lead anchor Shepard Smith. In 2007, when Smith signed his previous deal, it…

This Week’s ‘Monday Night Football’ Telecast on ESPN Earns a Place Among the Most-Watched Cable Shows in History

The Oct. 25 broadcast of ESPN’s "Monday Night Football" was a big draw for the cable net, winding up as one of the most-watched cable programs in television history, reports SportsNewser.com. The telecast ranks as the fourth-most-watched cable program of…

‘Real Housewives’ Producers Form Production Company to Develop Future Cable Shows

Matt Anderson and Nate Green, executive producers of the "Real Housewives" franchises as well as "Bethenny Getting Married?," have formed a new production company, Purveyors of Pop, and are about to ink a new deal with Bravo, reports Deadline.com. One…

Mark Burnett Expected to Produce VH1 Reality Show Featuring One of the Stars of ‘The Hills’

Mark Burnett is close to getting a greenlight from VH1 for a new reality show that would feature one of the starts of "The Hills", reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The untitled project, to star Audrina Patridge, is expected to…

If the Mantra for Retailers is ‘Location, Location, Location,’ the Mantra for TV Programmers and Consumer Distributors Alike is ‘Marketing, Marketing, Marketing.’ Here’s the Best of Cable Marketing

The best of cable marketing–both on the programming and distributing sides of the business–is honored every year by CTAM’s Mark Awards, helped along by their traditional media trade partner, our friends at Multichannel News. Given the importance of marketing in these…

Cablevision Rebuked for Asking FCC to Mediate in Dispute With Fox

Cablevision Systems President and CEO James L. Dolan was rebuked by the FCC on Tuesday for trying to get the government to intervene in its dispute with News Corp., which is threatening to prevent 3 million homes from seeing the…

Crime Drama from Former ‘Dexter’ Showrunner Picked up by HBO

A crime drama from former "Dexter" showrunner Clyde Phillips and Lionsgate TV has been picked up by HBO, which won a bidding war among cable networks for the project, reports Deadline.com. The series is based on an Israeli program called…

As Cablevision and Fox Battle, the Winner May Be Upstart Ivi TV

With no settlement in sight between Fox and Cablevision, certainly one winner in the dispute is online re-broadcaster ivi (pronounced Ivy) TV, writes TVWeek contributor Aimee Picchi in an article she’s written for AOL’s Daily Finance. According to the article,…

Talk Show Host Named Most Influential Man of 2010

The host of a cable talk show has beaten out President Barack Obama and everyone else to be named the nation’s most influential man of 2010 by AskMen.com, USA Today reports. The honor goes to Jon Stewart, host of Comedy…

News With a Sheen: The Latest on Charlie–When the Cops Were Summoned to NY’s Plaza Hotel, Was It Too Much Alcohol or a Bad Reaction to Medication? We Report, You Decide

The star of CBS’s "Two and a Half Men" was involved in an incident in a New York hotel room early Tuesday morning and subsequently hospitalized for what was reported to be a bad reaction to medication, according to E!…