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Major League Baseball TV Featured in Steve Jobs’ iPad Rollout Presentation

One of the apps featured in Steve Jobs’ rollout of Apple’s new iPad on Wednesday, Jan. 28, was Major League Baseball TV. That’s the subscription service where users can watch out-of-market baseball games. MLB has written about creating the app on…

Jeff Gaspin’s Hollywood Blind Spot

On Tuesday, Jan. 26, at NATPE, NBCU TV Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin spoke more about the Leno/O’Brien latenight situation. In a lively blog post, TVWeek Open Mic contributor Chuck Ross explains how the interview revealed Gaspin’s Hollywood blind spot and thus…

Video: Preview of Leno on Oprah

Here’ a preview of Oprah’s interview with Jay Leno, set to air Thursday , Jan 28th. 1) One promo for the program shows Oprah asking the following questions: "When they asked you to go back, did you ever think, ‘I’m…

Video: Steve Jobs Reveals Apple’s New Tablet, the iPad

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Local Stations Want Voice in Industry’s Ratings Talks

Local stations are organizing so they aren’t left out of industry efforts to develop new audience measurement services based on cable and satellite set-top box data, our good friend Harry Jessell of TVNewscheck reports. A group of station executives met…

Disney Names Bates to Succeed Padden

ABC parent The Walt Disney Co. has named Richard Bates to replace Preston Padden as its senior vice president of government relations, reports Multichannel News. Bates, former executive director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a 19-year Disney veteran, will oversee corporate relations…

Harris Poll: Oprah TV’s Top Personality; No. 2 a First-Timer on List

Oprah Winfrey is the No. 1 personality on television, up three places from where she was last year, according to the Harris Poll, conducted by Harris Interactive. New to the annual top 10 list and landing right behind Oprah was…

‘Hope for Haiti Now’ Raises $57 Million, and Counting

Organizers said Friday night’s "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon has raised $57 million, with money continuing to come in, the Associated Press reports. The two-hour star-studded event aired on all the major broadcast networks and numerous cable channels, as well…

Writers’ Huge Age Discrimination Suit vs. Studios, Networks Settled

Settlement has been reached in a massive age discrimination lawsuit against Hollywood studios, the TV networks and talent agencies, The Wrap reports. The suit, which involved 19 long-standing cases filed against 17 major networks and studios and seven talent agencies…

Here’s What Joe Abruzzese, Ad Sales Executive Extraordinaire, Did That Changed the Ad Game

In 2002, Joe Abruzzese, then the top ad sales executive at the Tiffany Network, CBS, did a most extraordinary thing. He jumped to cable, taking the helm for ad sales at Discovery Communications. As one top media agency person told…