TelevisionWeek, Playboy Enterprises and Rainbow Media are joining together to support the Cable Positive HIV/AIDs project by sponsoring the 6th Annual POP awards, which recognize outstanding programming about the issue. “Nothing could be more mainstream than the fight against HIV/AIDs,”…
HBO Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht apologized in a memo to HBO staff Tuesday for the incident that landed him in a Las Vegas jail over the weekend and is taking a temporary leave of absence. COO Bill Nelson will…
They say that what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, but what about who you kill? In this week’s exclusive Backlot Talk, “24” co-executive producer Manny Coto jokes about the idea of a “haunted CTU” that brings back all…
CBS and ABC split the 18-to-49 vote on another typically competitive Monday night, while procedural “CSI: Miami” bested hipper upstarts such as “Heroes” and “24.” ABC led among households with a 90-minute “Dancing With the Stars” (4.8) and similarly super-sized…
Cable Giants Confident They’ll Survive Upstarts
Stepping up from his current role as Telepictures Production’s VP of new business and sales, Brett Bouttier will now take on the newly created position of senior VP, digital. Mr. Bouttier will report to Craig Hunegs, executive VP of business…
ABC’s “World News With Charles Gibson” won the flagship news ratings race for the week of April 30, and leads its two competitors at the halfway point of May sweeps, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. The news is…
Disney-ABC Television, ESPN and Cox Communications are teaming up to produce a digital platform that will combine multifaceted VOD and advanced advertising with ABC network content. Part of this trial includes disabling the VOD fast-forward option for on demand content…