Casting calls posted on the OWN web site give a few clues to what Oprah Winfrey’s new network has planned, B&C reports. Casting is going on for a show featuring professional locator Pam Slaton, which seems to be in the genre of…
MTV is exporting its hit “Jersey Shore” to more than 30 countries where it has networks beginning this week, the New York Times reports. To promote the series, the network is promoting the beach lifestyle with spots called “Get Jersey…
HGTV and Food Network had a strong year, but at parent company Scripps Networks Interactive executives got a pay cut in 2009 anyway, Multichannel News reports. That’s because some of their pay is tied to the performance of their stock on the…
Scripps, which owns such venerable TV stations as WXYZ in Detroit and WMAR in Baltimore as well as seven other stations, wants to reinvent local TV news, TVNewsCheck reports. Scripps President and CEO, Rich Boehne, says in the report, "We’re…
According to the Nielsen Company Three Screen Report, Americans are watching television andsurfing the Internet simultaneously more than ever, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Based on the final quarter of 2009, the use of Internet and watching TV at the…
Rosie O’Donnell will attempt to return to daytime talk in fall 2011, and while she has some heavy hitters behind her, don’t look for a major studio backer or even a syndication home, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Roger Friedman’s Showbiz411…
American Express, the company sponsoring Conan O’Brien’s upcoming live concert appearances, tweeted the it is running a "Meet Conan" contest accompanying the tour, according to eCreditDaily. In a three week period O’Brien went from not being on Twitter to being…
"The day when commercials are indistinguishable from the programs they support finally arrived — just before 10 p.m. Eastern on Thursday night [March 11]." That’s the provocative first sentence in an article from Brian Steinberg at our sibling publication, Ad Age….
Federal Communications Commissioner Julius Genachowski will give a keynote speech at the National Association of Broadcasters Annual Convention in Las Vegas in April, B&C reports. The speech will be of key interest to broadcasters in light of the FCC’s recently…
More accusations in the war between Google’s YouTube and Viacom. YouTube is saying that Viacom was secretly uploading videos to its site at the same time Viacom was complaining that the videos were appearing on the site, says a BBC…