“iVillage Live” is trading in its flip-flops-wearing Universal Orlando theme park audience and moving north to Chicago for its retooled sophomore season. Steve Schwaid, programming VP of NBC Universal Television Stations, informed the Orlando-based staff of the impending change Tuesday….
After six decades of service in the entertainment industry, Milton Grant, one of the last individual television station-group owners, died Saturday at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Mr. Grant was president and CEO of Grant Communications and owner and…
Tom Poston, stage and television character actor who rose to fame with regular appearances on “The Steve Allen Show” in the 1950s, died at his home in Los Angeles Monday night. He was 85. On the Allen show, Mr. Poston…
Bob Wright, the outgoing chairman of NBC Universal, will head a new peer group being formed by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to focus on the creators of new-media content. The group, approved Tuesday by…
“Lost’s” Daniel Dae Kim and “Battlestar Galactica’s” Grace Park are set to host the 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards, which celebrates the achievements of Asians and Asian-Americans who have profoundly impacted American culture. The event will also celebrate food, fashion…
In this week’s exclusive Backlot talk podcast, “Entourage” creator and executive producer Doug Ellin gives his 39 cents about last night’s episode, which was based on Mr. Ellin’s high-school friend who made a fortune selling stamps.After running into the creator…
ABC won the ratings race with three of the top four shows, while NBC’s new Sunday night strategy of programming theatricals got off to a weak start. “Desperate Housewives” (a 6.6 rating among adults 18 to 49), “Brothers & Sisters”…
TV Guide Channel is being renamed TV Guide Network.The change is designed to highlight the changes at the channel, which is moving away from its past as a simple scrolling listings service.“Our new name better reflects our business today as…
CBS Television Stations plans to launch a user-generated initiative across its owned stations in the early fall to let consumers contribute news, videos and photos for possible inclusion in the stations’ online or on-air news reports.The group’s Jonathan Leess, president…
News Corp. has appointed Emiliano Calemzuk, president of Fox International Channels Italy, to take the reins at Fox Television Studios, the company announced Monday.The news comes two weeks after Fox Studios president Angela Shapiro-Mathes defected to cable network TLC, where…