The combination of fast-moving economic-crisis news and politics provided a big lift for cable news channels, particularly Fox News Channel, which was the most-watched basic cable channel in prime time and the second-most-watched channel for total day last week. National…
Discovery Communications’ Science Channel said it will focus on developing original programming designed for worldwide audiences. Science Channel announced that its first series available for international distribution is “Brink,” a show about cutting-edge breakthroughs in technology, research, inventions and discoveries…
Starz Entertainment, ramping up its original programming, said it plans to air a new comedy, “Party Down,” the first series it has bought from sister company Starz Media. “Party Down,” about a group of Hollywood wannabes working for a Los…
MTV’s hi-def channel Palladia has acquired the U.S. TV rights to air highlights from the “Peace One Day Supported by Ben & Jerry’s” concert Oct. 18 at 9 p.m. The concert, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall in…
Business networks are perhaps the only ones happy with the current financial crisis, and this is best exemplified by the year-old Fox Business Network’s recent deals with U.S. Cable and Insight Communications, Multichannel News reports. The two cable operators will…
CNN has announced it will open a new broadcast center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where it plans to produce live daily programming on the Middle East. The new studio will open in Abu Dhabi’s Media Zone sometime in…
Yes! Mike Fratello has joined the YES Network as an analyst for the network’s New Jersey Nets basketball telecasts. Mr. Fratello joins play-by-play announcer Marv Albert, with whom he currently calls games for TNT’s national NBC telecasts, and analyst Jim…
Should Lifetime not get to air its newest prized possession, “Project Runway,” due to current litigation between show producer The Weinstein Company and Bravo parent company NBC Universal over the rights to the hit show, the female-skewing network isn’t worried…
Magic Johnson has joined ESPN as a studio analyst for the network’s NBA coverage, Bloomberg reports. The Hall of Fame basketball player makes his ESPN debut Christmas Day, alongside Stuart Scott, Mike Wilbon and Jon Barry, when ABC and ESPN…