RCN is looking to challenge both established cable operators and video newcomers like Verizon by offering more digital television channels, the Washington Post reports. “We can leapfrog both of them,” Peter D. Aquino, CEO of RCN, tells the paper. “They’re…
The New York Times compares and contrasts offbeat new Saturday night shows on CNN and Fox News Channel featuring hosts that haven’t been newsmen before. CNN has a comedian hosting “D.L. Hughley Breaks the News,” while former Arkansas governor and…
I want it to be over, and yet I can’t bear to let it go. No, I’m not talking about Fox’s “’Til Death,” which the network mercifully put on hiatus last week. As much as I enjoy using Brad Garrett’s…
Debra L. Lee can take a joke. And the BET Networks CEO can deliver one, too. You may or may not agree with The Insider that it’s just funny—and not in a ha-ha way—that of the 25 recipients of the…
As the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” suggests, not everyone who’s watching baseball on television is doing it in his living room. Turner Broadcasting, which televised baseball’s American League Championship Series last month, commissioned new research to…
The NFL Network is ready for some football. After spending much of its energy battling cable operators for carriage, the NFL Network is hitting the sweet spots of its year this week, when it begins to air its slate of…
Fuse, the youthful music television challenger to MTV, will be playing some classic licks next year. The Cablevision-owned network has made a deal to televise live the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony for three years beginning…
The NHL Network extended by a year its agreement to broadcast college hockey games from four conferences, Multichannel News says. As part of the deal, whose financial terms weren’t disclosed, the channel starting tonight will broadcast 19 game-of-the-week presentations through…
Maximum Adventure Network and Pursuit Channel will merge, creating a fishing and hunting channel with more than 100 content titles, Multichannel News says. The new channel will be accessible to 17 million DirecTV subscribers, Multichannel News reports. –Danny King
HGTV and carpet cleaner Stanley Steemer are putting a co-branded promotion, letting viewers of HGTV’s Web site upload pictures of their ugliest rooms while getting carpet-cleaning tips, Advertising Week reports. Stanley Steemer, which spent $45 million on advertising through the…