Hallmark Channel today signed a multi-year renewal of its distribution agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative. Going into this year, most of Hallmark’s carriage agreements were due to expire and the channel needed to renew those deals and increase…
SoapNet has greenlit production of reality series “The Fashionista Diaries.” Production of 10 one-hour episodes is set to begin this month for a July premiere. The show is from Walt Disney’s Buena Vista Productions in association with Go Go Lucky…
Turner Broadcasting named Stuart Snyder as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media, assuming many of the responsibilities of Jim Samples, the former head of Cartoon Network, who left the company earlier this…
Time Warner’s first quarter profits were slightly lower as gains in cable operations and AOL were offset by a decline at its filmed entertainment unit. For the three months ended March 31, 2007, the world’s biggest media company reported net…
Cablevision Systems Corp. said it agreed to be acquired by members of the Dolan family, which founded the cable company and has made several attempts to take it private in the past year. Outstanding shares of Cablevision that the Dolan…
A&E Network is remaking the medical thriller “Andromeda Strain” as part of its return to the original scripted programming business. A&E also unveiled six drama series in development, including “The Cleaner,” about a man who after kicking his own addictions…
The Gospel Music Channel has made a deal with Black Family Channel and several cable operators to fill Black Family Channel’s slot on 275 local systems. Black Family Channel stopped broadcasting last month. Beginning today, Gospel Music Channel is available…
News Corp. made a rich, unsolicited offer to acquire Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones and Co. Dow Jones’s global brand as a purveyor of business news and information on traditional and new media platforms would be an immediate boost…
Joost officially launched its online video service today, and said it will add programming from Turner Broadcasting networks including Adult Swim and CNN to its content lineup later this week. As part of the launch, Joost said it’s running ad…
NBC was the big winner with nine awards Monday night at the 28th annual Sports Emmy Awards, presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. ABC, sister organization ESPN and TNT earned four Emmys apiece. Fox…