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Jon Miller Promoted to Executive Vice President at NBC Sports

Jon Miller was promoted to executive vice president of NBC Sports. NBC said Wednesday that Mr. Miller will continue to oversee all NBC sports programming and will also take o a broader role in sales. He will still report to…

MasterCard to Sponsor ‘Bones’ Mobisodes

Fox is creating a special series of episodes based on its series “Bones” that will appear on mobile phones and the Internet and that will be sponsored exclusively by MasterCard Worldwide.The series of 26 mobisodes will launch this week. They…

Advertisers Calling on Cells

Mobile Marketing Forecast to Reach $2.9 Billion in 2011

Accent on Communications

Malcolm Russell Leads Vanguard at MindShare

Much Ado About _______

GSN Special Takes a Look Back at ‘Match Game’

NBCU’s Falco May Join AOL

NBC Universal may be in danger of losing its strong, quiet No. 2 man, Television Group President Randy Falco, to AOL.Spokespersons for NBC Universal and AOL’s parent company Time Warner, declined to comment on a New York Times report Wednesday…

Fox to Air O.J. Simpson Quasi-Confessional

Fox will air a two-part special with O.J. Simpson hypothetically confessing to the 1994 murders of his wife and Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. The sure-to-be-controversial special carries the working title “O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here’s…

New Report Shows Further VNR Misuse by Stations

By Ira Teinowitz andMichele GreppiThe misuse of corporate-funded video “news” releases by local TV continues, according to The Center for Media and Democracy and the national media reform organization Free Press.A report released Tuesday by the CMD claims that 46…

FCC Sets Next Ownership Hearing in Nashville

The Federal Communications Commission announced Tuesday it will hold the second of its six public hearings on media ownership Dec. 11 in Nashville.The city is the hometown of FCC commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate, who said she was pleased with the…

NATPE Chief Previews 2007 Conference

The National Association of Television Program Executives convention this year will address the theme of how executives in the business are adjusting to a rapidly changing industry, NATPE President and CEO Rick Feldman said Tuesday.The conference, which kicks off Jan….