Dish Network discontinued carrying GolTV after the No. 2 U.S. cable-television provider failed to renegotiate an extension with the Spanish-language soccer network, MediaWeek reports. GolTV, which reaches about 16 million subscribers, was dropped from Dish’s Latino and Top 250 packages,…
Lifetime Networks will start a 14-stop bus tour designed to encourage women to register to vote while giving their opinions in videos that will be aired by the network, Multichannel News says. The tour, which will stop in both Denver…
MTV Networks promoted Rebecca Keszkowski to vice president of digital integrated marketing from senior director of Spike TV’s digital entertainment group, Multichannel News says. Ms. Keszkowski, who joined Spike in 2003, will head the marketing of Web sites for Comedy…
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said today that his company would add six regional television channels in India, the New York Times reports. News Corp. also launched a new stock index, called the Dow Jones India Titans, to track stock…
Cablevision received a favorable court ruling today related to its pending launch of a digital video recorder service after a federal appeals court in Manhattan threw out an earlier ruling blocking its release, Reuters reports. Film and TV content producers…
The Sept. 5 fundraising event “Stand Up to Cancer” could be spreading to other networks. ABC, CBS and NBC have given the greenlight for producers to offer the show to any cable network that wants it, TelevisionWeek reports. The only…
A new reality show in which Sean “Diddy” Combs seeks to find an assistant provides a good look at how driven and intense the sleepless rap entrepreneur is, USA Today says. In “I Want to Work for Diddy,” premiering on…
There are some big celebrity stories brewing at Dallas Cowboys training camp, but those won’t be the focus of the upcoming season of HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” which follows players as they compete for jobs in the NFL, according to the…
E! Entertainment Television has bought the second-run rights for some current and upcoming theatrical releases, including “Sex and the City,” Daily Variety reports. The company paid about $7 million for “Sex” and other titles, including “The Women” and “He’s Just…
Dish Network has dropped carriage of four Midwestern TV stations owned by Citadel Communications, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The two companies could not negotiate an extension to their retransmission-consent agreement, the newspaper says. The affected stations are ABC affiliate WOI-TV…