Automaker Infiniti will be the exclusive sponsor of the 15th season of Bravo’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” hosted by James Lipton, the network said Thursday. The series premieres Monday with Goldie Hawn as its first guest. For the new season,…
CNN is planning to use three-dimensional holographic technology to highlight election night interviews, USA Today says. Other networks also have new bells and whistles to help them count the vote. For example, Fox News has new high definition studios and…
Joining the rest of the 24-hour news pack, MSNBC is making the leap to full 1080i high definition starting next spring, the network announced this week. “As viewers are making the transition to HD more and more every day, we’re…
Sci Fi Channel next year will start airing a video game-competition show produced by Samsung Electronics and Granada America, Broadcasting & Cable reports. “WCG GameQuest,” slated to start with eight episodes, will feature 12 contestants battling for prizes that include…
Cable company Cox Communications next year will start providing caller ID information on television screens of customers who get both phone and cable service, Multichannel News reports. Cox, the eighth-largest U.S. phone company, will follow Time Warner Cable and Cablevision…
Cablevision announced it will increase its cable TV rates by 3.5% in 2009, below the current rate of inflation. The telecommunications company also will leave pricing for its Optimum Online high-speed Internet and Optimum Voice digital phone service unchanged for…
The National Football League is defending its decision to keep some of its games on its own NFL Network in the face of criticism from some U.S. senators. In a statement today, the NFL blamed cable system owners, not the…
U.S. senators are lobbying pro football commissioner Roger Goodell for allowing more NFL games to be broadcast for free on the NFL Network, the Associated Press reports. While the network broadcasts games of teams to their home cities, many senators…
USA Network said it is pushing back the launch of new original episodes of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” to the first quarter of 2009. The network has planned to begin airing “L&O: CI” on Nov. 7. With the new…
Scripps Networks Interactive said third-quarter earnings were slightly lower because of costs associated with splitting off from newspaper company E.W. Scripps. Scripps, which runs cable channels HGTV, Food Network, DIY, Fine Living and Great American Country as well as a…