Media buyers are waiting to get a fix on how much television networks are looking to increase prices before jumping into advertising deals after this month’s upfront presentations. Buyers and sellers said they were unsure when negotiations would start in…
DirecTV is launching GameSearch, a new receiver feature that searches for local blacked-out games, Multichannel News reports. GameSearch will automatically search to see if a game is being broadcast on another channel and will alert the viewer if the receiver…
Time Warner Cable’s Navic Networks interactive TV platform for advanced advertising will relaunch in Los Angeles, Multichannel News reports. The timeline for the relaunch has not been set yet, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that the cable news channels have devoted more coverage to the ongoing political campaign than to the earthquake in China despite viewer interest in the natural disaster, the Hollywood…
Time Warner and a partnership between NBC Universal and Blackstone Group are expected to submit the highest offers for the Weather Channel and Weather.com with bids due today, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bids are expected to be between $3…
USA Network ordered an eighth season of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” TelevisionWeek reports. The 16-episode season, which moved to USA from sister network NBC last season, will also air on NBC, the magazine says. —Danny King
Ron Perlman will star as the head of a motorcycle gang in FX’s new original series “Sons of Anarchy,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Mr. Perlman is starring in the upcoming film “Hellboy II: The Golden Army.”
MTV reality star and MySpace queen Tila Tequila says the media is to blame for her breakup with the winner of the first season of her show “Shot at Love,” the Associated Press reports. She said Bobby Banhart was more…
Barry Livingston, who played Ernie Douglas on the 1960s sitcom “My Three Sons,” is starring in a new TV movie appearing on the Hallmark Channel this weekend, the Associated Press says. Mr. Livingston, now 54, plays a heroic passenger on…
Comcast plans to divest in 46 smaller cable systems totaling about 400,000 subscribers in markets such as Maine and Kentucky, Multichannel News reports, citing people familiar with the process it didn’t identify. Comcast, which didn’t comment, reportedly hired New York…