Discovery Communications has acquired Petfinder.com and PetsIncredible and combined them with Animal Planet to form a new unit called Animal Planet Media Enterprises.Ad-supported Petfinder.com facilitates pet adoption via the Internet. PetsIncredible produces and distributes pet training videos and runs the…
The YES Network, home of New York Yankees baseball and New Jersey Nets basketball, plans to run episodes of the classic high-school basketball series “The White Shadow” on Sundays beginning Nov. 5 at 6 p.m. (ET).The cable network has acquired…
“CBS Corporation is right on track,” CBS Corp. Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone said Thursday as CBS Corp. announced a third-quarter performance that included a 26 percent earnings increase from its continuing businesses.Net earnings fell dramatically to $316.9 million, or 41…
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U.S. Networks, Programs Getting International Export
Procter & Gamble’s Iams pet-food brand will be the first sponsor of TNT’s Dramatic Difference Movie, a new franchise that will feature profiles of community organizations.The first movie to receive the Dramatic Difference treatment will be “Drumline” on Friday at…
Political advertising spending for 2006 has zoomed past all projections and is heading for the stratosphere, with more than $2 billion likely to be spent. That’s 17.6 percent more than the $1.7 billion spent in 2004, the previous record high…
Nielsen Media Research and NetRatings Inc. launched a database Wednesday that combines television viewership information with Internet usage data to allow programmers and marketers to study and capitalize on the relationship between use of the two media.The National TV/Internet Fusion…
Mika Salmi has been named president of global digital media for MTV Networks, a new post. Mr. Salmi was founder and president of Atom Films, which was acquired by MTVN in August. He will report to Judy McGrath, chairman and…