HD programming picks for July 12-July 18: “HBO World Championship Boxing,” “The Blues Brothers,” “Like Water for Chocolate” “HBO World Championship Boxing: Margarito vs. Williams; Gatti vs. Gomez and Cintron vs. Matthysee” (HBO HD). Saturday, July 14, 9 p.m.: See…
Not wanting to add “bolt-ons to an older train,” the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) is looking for a reworking to the residual model of payment as it sits down with the Writers Guild of America for…
AOL Video and Yahoo Video pulled ahead of MySpace in the race for unique visitors on video-sharing sites in June. They have been battling for third and fourth place. Google-owned YouTube continues to dominate, with 51 million visitors in the…
Gemstar-TV Guide partnered with technology provider Maven Networks to power TV Guide’s online video. Maven will serve as the engine for more than 300 video players at TVGuide.com, Maven said today. TVGuide.com recently relaunched the site to focus more on…
Nielsen//NetRatings is shifting how it measures the popularity of Web sites from page views to time spent. For the past several years, the measurement firm has used page views—the numbers of times a page is seen—as its benchmark. However, the…
After receiving the green light from arbitrators Monday, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Tuesday announced nominees for broadband Emmys to be given out at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards Sept. 24 in New York. New…
NBC Universal partnered with EchoStar to offer several interactive features for Bravo’s “Top Chef 3 Miami,” which currently airs on Wednesdays. Under the deal, Echostar has enabled synchronized voting and polling for the show. Viewers can interact using the remote…
Internet TV service Joost will provide a sneak peek of upcoming VH1 comedy series “I Hate My 30s” on its service 10 days in advance of the on-air premiere, Joost said today. Viacom, the parent company of VH1, is an…
Scripps Networks shifted new-media executive Beth Higbee to a new post as senior VP and general manager of emerging ventures. In the new job, she will concentrate on creating “disruptive new businesses developed organically to drive growth for Scripps,” the…
Newscaster Dan Rather will take part in a keynote conversation with TelevisionWeek publisher and editorial director Chuck Ross at this year’s CTAM Summit in Washington, D.C. TVWeek’s panel event, “HD07: The State of the Business,” takes place on Monday, July…