Yahoo!’s Internet concert series, sponsored by Nissan, will become a monthly show on MTV’s high definition channel. “Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music,” will appear on MHD beginning Sept. 17 with a performance by Rascal Flatts. The show tapes twice…
Fox Business Network, which announced a quintet of anchors Wednesday, identified a quartet of executive producers for the channel that will launch Oct. 15. Producing weekend and prime-time hours will be Terry Baker, executive producer of CBNC’s “Conversations With Michael…
When the Fox Business Network debuts Oct. 15, the anchor lineup will include faces already familiar to viewers of Fox News Channel. Fox News Executive VP Kevin Magee on Wednesday announced a quintet of anchor choices: David Asman, who hosts…
Discovery Communications President-CEO David Zaslav will receive the Trustees Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Sept. 23 at a black-tie event at the Harvard Club in New York City. On the same night, veteran New York…
CNN has hired U.S. News & World Report contributing editor Gloria Borger as a senior political analyst based in Washington, D.C. Her assignments will include the prime-time program being developed for former NBC newswoman Campbell Brown as well as other…
The Federal Communications Commission late Tuesday unanimously adopted rules designed to prevent analog-only cable subscribers from losing their local TV stations’ signals for three years after the switch to digital TV occurs Feb. 17, 2009. The FCC estimates some 40…
Jim Samples, who was forced out as general manager of Cartoon Network after a promotional stunt for its Adult Swim offshoot blew up in Boston, has been named president of Scripps Networks’ HGTV. Mr. Samples will succeed Judy Girard, who…
Bravo has begun casting for its new reality competition program “Step It Up,” which hopes to follow in the footsteps of the network’s Top Chef” and “Project Runway.” The show will bring dancers together from around the country and challenge…
Discovery Communications’ TLC is moving operations to L.A., staffers at the network were told Monday. New TLC President Angela Shapiro-Mathes originally had planned to be based in L.A. but to operate the network as a bicoastal operation, with some staffers…
The Ski Channel, which plans to launch next year, today announced a major programming deal with Ride Guide TV. The Ski Channel acquired the premiere rights to 26 new one-hour episodes a year of “Ride Guide” over the life of…