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It’s Official: Major ESPN Sportcaster Signs Extension

ESPN’s Six-time National Sportscaster of the Year has signed a contract extension, the network has announced. The sportscaster is Chris Berman, who joined ESPN duing its first month of launch back in 1979. ESPN Executive Vice President, Content John Skipper said…

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Cybill Shepherd Sign for Cable Movie

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Cybill Shepherd will appear together in an upcoming cable movie, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The movie, for Lifetime, is still untitled. Shepherd has been cast as a body waxer at a beauty salon who discovers her daughter,…

New Format on Cable: Split Screen Keeps Program Going When Commericials Run

Here’s an interesting twist: "Program Placement" during commercials, as opposed to "product placement" during a program. It’s being tried on CNN, according to Advertising Age. According to the article, "With marketers now paying for TV ad time based on the…

CBS Developing New Show With One of the Most Beloved, Popular Formats of All Time: the Candid Camera; Popular Comic-Game Show Personality Would Likely Host

CBS has a huge hit many years ago with its hidden camera show "Candid Camera." The network is at it again, developing a hidden-camera show with Drew Carey that’s been given the working the title "WTF!", reports the Hollywood Reporter. But…

New CNBC Shows From Jim Cramer and David Faber?

CNBC is planning on slimming down its two-hour "Power Lunch" program to make room for a new half-hour show hosted by David Faber and a possible second program helmed by Jim Cramer, the New York Post reports. But "Mad Money"…

FCC Hits the Pause Button on Comcast-NBCU Deal Review

The Federal Communications Commission has suspended its 180-day "shot clock" on its merger review of the Comcast-NBCU deal to give more time for public comment, B&C reports. The decision to delay the process comes after the companies said they wouldn’t…

Sumner Lovin’: Big Paychecks for Moonves and Dauman

Last year was a good one for CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves and Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman. The Los Angeles Times reports that, according to SEC filings, Moonves was awarded a total compensation package of $43.2 million in 2009, while…

While ‘Food Revolution’ Ties for Tops on Friday, Ratings Inch Down

It’s a good-news, bad-news story for "Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution," TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The ABC program beat out the competition in the 9 p.m. timeslot on Friday with a 1.4 rating in the 18-49 year-old demographic, yet that represents a .2…

Fox News Pulls News Commentator From Tea Party Event

Fox News executives forced network anchor host and commentator Sean Hannity to cancel a taping of his show at a Cincinnati-based Tea Party event Thursday after it was found out that event organizers were billing Hannity as a centerpiece of…

NBC Universal Loses $223 Million on Vancouver Winter Olympics

NBC Universal Sports & Olympics Chairman Dick Ebersol told reporters in January that this year’s Winter Olympics would cost the network money, and now the figures are in, the Hollywood Reporter says. NBC Universal’s first-quarter results show the Winter Olympics…