“Saturday Night Live” cast member and writer Seth Meyers is replacing Tina Fey as a co-anchor on the NBC late-night comedy’s “Weekend Update” segment.Mr. Meyers, who is entering his fifth season on “Saturday Night Live” and his second season as…
By Elizabeth JensenSpecial to TVWeekNBC Universal Chairman and CEO Bob Wright hopes that within 12 months his company is booking $400 million to $500 million in digital advertising, has a number of integrated broadcast and digital program ventures, and is…
Viacom said Monday it has reached a new compensation agreement with Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone in which Mr. Redstone receives smaller cash salary and bonuses effective Jan. 1, 2007.The new deal is supposed to immediately link the majority of Mr….
ABC plans to offer an ABC News online video player to its 200-plus affiliates that will include clips from news shows such as “World News With Charles Gibson” and “Good Morning America” on the stations’ Web sites.Under the deal, ABC…
Syndication company Program Partners has acquired the U.S. broadcast syndication rights to Canadian teen series “Degrassi: The Next Generation” to run as a strip beginning in fall 2007.The series, the latest edition in the 25-year-old “Degrassi” teen relationship franchise, has…
Despite a big decline from last September’s season premiere, ABC’s 9 p.m. (ET) soapy one-hour “Desperate Housewives” was the highest-rated program Sunday in adults 18 to 49, winning the network a night that was crowded with original programming, season premieres…
NBC won Friday in the adults 18 to 49 demographic with help from the top-rated program for the night: the season premiere of the network’s veteran procedural, “Law & Order.”At 10 p.m. (ET) “Law & Order” scored a 3.5 preliminary…
By Elizabeth JensenSpecial to TelevisionWeekCBS’s “60 Minutes” was the top winner at the 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Monday night, taking home four statuettes.CBS’s “48 Hours” also won an Emmy, pushing the network’s total to five awards, which…
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