Discovery Familia, which offers Spanish-language programs for preschoolers, has more than doubled its subscribers to more than 2 million homes, Multichannel News reports. The network began in 2007 and has added more than 1 million subscribers during the past year,…
Tennis Channel will debut on Cox cable systems in Arizona in May, Multichannel News reports. Phoenix had been the only top 15 market where Tennis hadn’t joined with a top cable operator, the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
MTV Networks and Netflix have signed a new agreement that will provide Comedy Central and Nickelodeon programs to Netflix’s online streaming service, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The service is available to Netflix subscribers through computers and devices such as TiVo…
Nickelodeon’s “Yo Gabba Gabba” is creating a live tour, which will start in Australia next month and continue in the U.S., Daily Variety reports. A film is planned for 2010. The show has also signed more than 40 merchandising deals,…
Comedy Central signed a multi-year, multi-platform deal with Levity Entertainment for a series of stand-up specials by comedians including Christopher Titus, Gabriel Iglesias, Pablo Francisco, Jim Breuer, Mitch Fatel and Pete Correale. The specials featuring those six comics will air…
TV Land has picked up a third season of “High School Reunion,” TelevisionWeek reports. The new shows will focus on Chaparral High School in Las Vegas’ class of 1989, TVWeek says. —Jon Lafayette
Sci Fi has cast Tahmoh Penikett of “Battlestar Galactica” and Laura Vandervoort of “Smallville” in its four-hour TV movie “Riverworld,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Ryan Carnes of “Desperate Housewives” has been cast as the Phantom in “The Phantom,” the trade…
BBC America is cutting its three-hour morning international news programming because of low ratings, Daily Variety reports. Instead, the network will air lifestyle programs such as “Kitchen Nightmares,” the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
The U.S. Olympic Committee has been talking to officials at Comcast about partnering on a stand-alone Olympic network, SportsBusiness Journal says. The paper says that ESPN, Discovery and NBC have passed on the idea. —Jon Lafayette
Baseball’s brand new MLB Network is already succeeding where the mighty NFL’s channel has struggled, Slate’s The Big Money says. Instead of fighting with cable operators, baseball wound up partnering with them and now is available in 50 million homes,…