Time Warner reported flat financial results for the third quarter, and said it was adjusting its full-year business outlook in the face of a “challenging economic environment.” Net income was $1.07 billion, or 30 cents a share, compared with $1.09…
Many cable news networks hope the coverage of the remaining “burning issues” will be enough to keep the strong ratings they had in the months leading up to the presidential election, the Hollywood Reporter says. “After a massive story like…
When you have a game show on the environmentally conscious cable network Planet Green, it almost makes sense to have someone green, like Tom Green, as a host. The show, called “Go For the Green,” is billed as a fun,…
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is expected to get her own show on the network, the New York Post says. Page Six says she was angr the network gave a show about international affairs to Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria. A CNN spokesperson said…
TNT’s drama pilot “The Line” has tapped Logan Marshall-Green, Omari Hardwick and Nicki Aycox to star, the Hollywood Reporter says. The project, from executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, writer Doug Jung, Jonathan Littman and director Danny Cannon, is about an undercover…
Viacom, Time Warner, NBC Universal and News Corp. all have channels battling for market share in India, where the ad business is booming, the Wall Street Journal reports. The emergence of the new channels “is driven by the opportunity of…
At 11 p.m. EST, just after polls in the Western states had closed, Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was projected the 44th president of the United States by all the national TV news organizations covering the general election. Inside the…
Fox News Channel called what may turn out to have been the key state in the U.S. presidential election at 9:22 p.m. East Coast, declaring Ohio had gone to Democrat Barack Obama and quoting Republicans who had said there was…
Major League Baseball’s new television network is nearing an agreement to bring Fox broadcaster Matt Vasgersian on as its first studio host, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Mr. Vasgersian, play-by-play announcer for the San Diego Padres, also has worked with the…
CTAM will eschew its tradition of giving its annual chairman’s award to an individual and will instead award it collectively to the volunteers who run the group’s 15 chapters in the U.S., Europe and Caribbean, Multichannel News reports. The award…