After raising almost $70 million (and counting) in last week’s fund-raising event, “American Idol” is back to the chopping block, playing catch-up with two eliminations. In this week’s exclusive Backlot Talk, executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said the results are far…
Hallmark Channel today signed a multi-year renewal of its distribution agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative. Going into this year, most of Hallmark’s carriage agreements were due to expire and the channel needed to renew those deals and increase…
SoapNet has greenlit production of reality series “The Fashionista Diaries.” Production of 10 one-hour episodes is set to begin this month for a July premiere. The show is from Walt Disney’s Buena Vista Productions in association with Go Go Lucky…
The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., offered a new call to revive the Federal Communication Commission’s fairness doctrine, which required broadcasters to offer competing viewpoints in a balanced manner when presenting controversial…
Longtime Fan Gripe Becomes Marketing Focal Point
On the first Tuesday of the May sweeps, Fox was the victor thanks to “American Idol” and “House.” “Idol” scored a 9.7 rating among adults 18 to 49, according to preliminary Nielsens, while “House” retained 92 percent of its “Idol”…
The Tribune Employee Stock Ownership Plan is asking the Federal Communications Commission to let it keep the Chicago Tribune, Newsday and the Los Angeles Times, as well as WGN-TV, WPIX-TV and KTLA-TV and several of its other newspapers and TV…
Turner Broadcasting named Stuart Snyder as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media, assuming many of the responsibilities of Jim Samples, the former head of Cartoon Network, who left the company earlier this…
Time Warner’s first quarter profits were slightly lower as gains in cable operations and AOL were offset by a decline at its filmed entertainment unit. For the three months ended March 31, 2007, the world’s biggest media company reported net…
Cablevision Systems Corp. said it agreed to be acquired by members of the Dolan family, which founded the cable company and has made several attempts to take it private in the past year. Outstanding shares of Cablevision that the Dolan…