Rentrak’s set-top box based local ratings service, called StationView Essentials, has now signed up over 25 stations, including it’s first breakthrough in a top 10 market, Dallas. Belo’s ABC affiliate, WFAA has signed up, Rentrak has announced. Rentrak’s set-top data…
The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is developing shows starring a celebrity chef and a fashionista, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Chef Cat Cora and fashion expert Carson Kressley are working on show that will revolve around makeovers and transforming people, such as Cora’s pilot where…
The longtime editor-in-chief at Mediaweek, our good friend Michael Burgi, who started at that trade publication as a reporter 17 years ago, is leaving to work in the cable industry, TheWrap reports. Burgi is going to Canoe Ventures, where he’ll be vice…
A bill that would require commercials to tone it down when it comes to how loud they are broadcast–that has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives–has now passed the Senate Commerce Committee and will go to the full Senate for a vote, reports…
CBS has hired a reality producer as vice president of alternative programming, Nellie Andreeva reports on Deadline.com. He’s Louis Boyd, who most recently he worked as a producer on Style’s "How Do I Look?"At CBS he’ll report to Jennifer Bresnan, executive…
Fox’s "Glee" enjoyed a solid finish to its first season, drawing 10.9 million viewers and a 4.6 rating in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Those numbers are "Glee’s" best showing without the help of an "American Idol"…
A well-known Hollywood publicist whose client list included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, died Tuesday at the age of 55, reports the AP. Stephen Rivers had been fighting prostate cancer before succumbing. In addition to the Governor and First Lady of…
Characters are welcomed on USA Network and the newest project to be greenlighted is a character-driven cop drama called "Common Law" about two partners who have a problem — each other. The premise of the buddy cop pilot is that Wes…
Usually a network only gets to cancel a TV show once, but Fox has given "Past Life" the axe from the schedule for the second time this season, reports The Futon Critic. The network had decided to broadcast the two unaired…
Money maven Suze Orman was rushed to the emergency room on Sunday night where she had to have an immediate appendectomy, reports TVNewser.com. Orman was visiting Chicago to celebrate her birthday when the appendicitis attack occurred. She is home in…