Music-television network Fuse has doubled its subscribers since its January 2003 launch, reaching 60 million this month, Broadcasting & Cable reports. In the past year, 6 million people have added Fuse, B&C says. —Danny King
Walt Disney’s media networks’ second-quarter earnings rose 9% as its ESPN sports channel had higher subscriber fees and improved ratings from the NBA Finals and U.S. Open golf tournament, the Wall Street Journal reports. The networks’ performance helped drive the…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin celebrated the regulator’s likely decision to support his plan to punish cable giant Comcast for interfering with some customers’ file-sharing software, the New York Times reports. Such sanctions will be “increasingly applied” to overly…
IAC/InterActiveCorp’s HSN shopping cable network’s second-quarter revenue rose 2%, though the unit took a $272 million operating loss, Reuters says. IAC, which next month will spin off the former Home Shopping Network into its own public company, had a smaller…
Comcast’s second-quarter profits grew 8%, less than Wall Street analysts had forecast, the Associated Press reports. Revenues rose 11% to $8.56 billion. The housing slump meant the company was able to hook up fewer new communities, the wire service says….
Though Miley Cyrus said in an interview that she’s thinking the next season of “Hannah Montana” could be her last, a top Disney Channel executive says he expects the singing star to appear in the show beyond that, according to…
Viacom said revenues from its movie business offset weak advertising growth at its cable networks, TelevisionWeek reports. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman said that midway through the second quarter “scatter volume dropped off” and that the weakness continued into the beginning…
HBO has given a go-ahead to “How to Make It in America,” a comedy pilot from Mark Wahlberg’s Closest to the Hole and Stephen Levinson’s Leverage, the Hollywood Reporter says. HBO producer Rob Weiss also is a part of the…
“Long Way Down,” a new series appearing on the Fox Reality Channel, is a hip, liberating documentary capturing a motorcycle trip from Scotland to South Africa taken by actor Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, Tom Shales of the Washington Post…
A band from New York’s Lower East Side that plays kiddie parties by day and Black Sabbath by night is featured in a new comedy series coming to IFC, the New York Times reports. The cast for the series is…