Analysts Ron Darling and Buck Martinez will join Chip Caray this baseball season on TBS. Mr. Darling is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who won an Emmy Award for his work in broadcasting. He is a radio announcer for…
Anchor David Marash resigned from the English-language version of the Arab cable news channel Al Jazeera, saying that the network’s headquarters in Qatar had increased its control over the operations, the New York Times reports. The former “Nightline” correspondent’s two-year…
AT&T will start providing mobile-television service through a Qualcomm affiliate in May, including content from channels such as ESPN Mobile and Comedy Central, Multichannel News reports. AT&T initially set a December 2007 deadline when it announced the Qualcomm partnership last…
Renee Zellweger and David Beckham are among celebrities Tracey Ullman impersonates and makes fun of in Showtime’s “Tracey Ullman’ s State of the Union,” which premiers this weekend, the New York Times reports. Ullman, whose first series aired on Fox…
Disney Channel approved the start of production for “Jungle Junction,” an animated series teaching environmental lessons that will start airing next year, Daily Variety reports. Disney Channel also ordered new seasons of “My Friends Tigger & Pooh” and “Mickey Mouse…
Time Warner Cable’s Barry Rosenblum, who’d overseen the New York region before moving to West Coast operations last year, will take over the company’s Texas region, replacing the retiring Wayne Knighton, Multichannel News reports. Mr. Rosenblum’s New York and West…
More than a half-dozen Arab satellite business channels have been launched during the past five years as rising oil prices have boosted financial interest in the region, Daily Variety reports. CNBC affiliate Arabiya, started in 2003, is the largest channel…
SportsNet New York, the regional sports network partly owned by the Mets, is raising the volume with two new talk shows, the New York Times says. The two year old channel hopes that it can attract more attention by encouraging…
The Federal Communications Commission is offering a reprieve to satellite providers and a blow to broadcasters in the digital rollout. An order issued today by the FCC gives satellite providers up to four years to air all local broadcasters’ signals…
Viewership and ratings are up by double-digit percentages for this year’s NCAA Women’s Division I College Basketball Tournament’s first two rounds of coverage on ESPN and ESPN2. ESPN2, which aired most of the games, saw household ratings increase 29% from…