The election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first African American president wasn’t the only reason the week of Nov. 3 was historic. However, it was the major reason that the five most-watched basic-cable news channels in prime time included…
Cablevision Systems and the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research have launched an interactive VOD channel as part of their curePC campaign. The Lustgarten channel offers information about pancreatic cancer and the fight against the disease to iO TV digital…
Lifetime Networks’ Web site MyLifetime.com and Shop.com are teaming up to launch myLifetime.Shop.com. The co-branded e-commerce Web site will be integrated into myLifetime.com and will offer thousands of brands from Shop.com, which features more than 2,000 retailers. The site also…
Canoe Ventures, a consortium of cable companies that includes Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Charter Communications, Cablevision Systems and Bright House Networks, paid a visit to the CTAM Summit in Boston, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Canoe Ventures told attendees it…
Whoopi Goldberg has signed a development deal at Discovery Emerging Networks, Daily Variety reports. As part of the agreement, Goldberg and partner Tom Leonardis will develop projects for Investigation Discovery and Science Channel with a provision that at least one…
RHI Entertainment Inc., Robert Halmi’s production company, says it is cutting staff and implementing other cost cutting measures, Dow Jones reports. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the TV content company is trying to reduce selling, general and…
Viacom won’t be moving from its Times Square headquarters where MTV’s studios are located, the New York Post reports. The media giant renewed its lease on over 1 million square feet of office space at 1515 Broadway, the paper says….
Fox News Channel won’t lose the cable news top spot, says MarketWatch, which, like FNC, is owned by News Corp. The business Web site points to the loyalty of FNC’s conservative viewers and the network’s affinity for portraying itself as…
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and Turner Classic Movies are teaming up to release the TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection in early 2009. The collection will compromise 60 top films in 15 themed groups, which will be released on DVD…
Lifetime has ordered a full season of original comedy “Rita Rocks.” With the announcement, seven more episodes will be produced to bring the series’ first-season order to 20. The comedy, which stars Nicole Sullivan as an overworked wife and mother,…