Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures today announced a reorganization in which its DVD and Blu-ray disc sales unit and its online video licensing operation are being combined, Bloomberg reports. Some staff is being relocated from London to Los Angeles as part of…
Amazon’s Kindle Fire — the company’s first tablet computer — is set to debut today, and the company has been aggressively signing up partners for programming content to make it competitive with other portable devices, reports Deadline.com. Recent deals have…
A new online network that has been in the works for months — known mainly as the place where a couple of canceled ABC soap operas are headed — now has a name, Deadline.com reports. The name: The Online Network….
Actress Leisha Hailey, one of the stars of Showtime’s “The L Word,” is the focus of an Internet frenzy after being kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hailey said in a series of tweets that…
CBS led all networks with 10 Emmys at Monday night’s 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards presentation in New York, produced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The National Geographic Channel was second with seven Emmys….
NBC is taking a page from Fox’s playbook with the rollout of two of the network’s new comedies, reports Deadline.com. Fox gave a boost to its new comedy “New Girl” by streaming it online before it aired on the network,…
In a first for a live Fox reality show, the network is making “The X Factor” available on VOD through major cable operators Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications, Multichannel News reports. The VOD launch started Sept. 22, after…
An Alabama man who became an “accidental” Internet sensation last year has been arrested, TMZ.com reports. Antoine Dodson was reportedly stopped by police Sunday in his home town of Huntsville, Ala., for violating a local noise ordinance by playing his…
A new study spotlights an increasing threat to the already tough TV station business, Deadline.com reports. The study by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Internet & American Life Project says local newscasts are at…
Turner Broadcasting is trying to sell "Conan" with a new pitch, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. That approach is "forget the TV ratings, look at his online popularity," Steinberg writes. It’s the natural response to the weakened ratings and…