L’Oréal Paris will sponsor an event honoring inspiring women that’s being hosted by CNN Ad Sales.The CNN Inspire Summit will be held Oct. 10 in New York. The summit will feature women of achievement in fields including politics, the environment…
Probe Called for in FCC’s Quashing of Local News Study
Sunbeam Television on Thursday said it agreed to acquire the assets of WLVI-TV, Boston, from Tribune Co. for $113.7 million.Operations of the CW affiliate will be combined with those of Sunbeam’s WHDH-TV, an NBC affiliate. Sunbeam plans to re-brand WLVI’s…
Fox said its online sneak preview of the first seven minutes of “The Simpsons” premiere last week generated about 1.4 million views on Fox.com, MySpace.com and IGN.com, the three sites where the video ran. Fox offered that short tease of…
Improving its showing from the previous day, “NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” won the broadcast evening news battle Wednesday in total viewers, while “CBS Evening News With Katie Couric” remained victorious in adults 25 to 54.NBC was first with…
Eight of CBS’s prime-time programs will be made available free on-demand to Comcast subscribers, the companies said Thursday.The new deal replaces a prior agreement in which customers paid 99 cents per show. That agreement covered only markets served by CBS-owned…
Beverly Hills-based talent agency UTA has named agent Brett Hansen head of the agency’s alternative television department. The department had been run by agent Chris Coelen, who departed UTA in February to run RDF Media USA.In addition, UTA has named…
TiVo said Thursday that WPP’s GroupM media agencies have agreed to buy a minimum amount of advertising on TiVo’s digital video recorder platform.As part of the agreement, each agency in GroupM’s network will be able to offer its clients pre-negotiated…
Laura Desmond has been named CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group/The Americas, effective Oct. 1.Ms. Desmond is currently CEO of MediaVest USA. Her oversight of MediaVest will continue into next year, when a transition plan will be put together and day-to-day…
Bela Bajaria has been named to the newly created position of senior VP of movies and cable programming for CBS Paramount Network Television and senior VP of movies and miniseries for CBS Entertainment.In this dual-programming role, Ms. Bajaria, who currently…