A police official from New Zealand is joining his country’s diplomatic team in Palestine as part of an effort to free a Fox News reporter and his freelance cameraman, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Thursday.American reporter Steve Centanni…
CBS will make free clips from its new prime-time lineup available directly from CBS Outdoor billboard locations to mobile device users starting in September, a marketing first for a broadcast network. The clip offering is being made via MobiZone, which…
AOL Video is adding TV shows and movies from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment as part of its effort to lure users.Some of the features, such as classic TV shows “Charlie’s…
A repeat of Fox’s “Vanished” failed to improve its ratings fortunes in the adults 18 to 49 demographic in its second outing Tuesday, performing poorly in its time period and dropping from its “House” lead-in.At 9 p.m. (ET), “Vanished” scored…
Microsoft struck a deal to become the exclusive provider of banner ads and sponsored links to social networking site Facebook, the companies announced today. The ads will appear in early fall. Microsoft will power the ads with adCenter, its new…
NBC Universal plans a September launch for a children’s weekend programming block, qubo, for its broadcast networks NBC and Telemundo that will also run on Ion Media Network’s i Network Friday afternoons.Broadcasting in both English and Spanish, the block will…
Sony Pictures Entertainment made its move into online video with the news Wednesday that it has acquired video-sharing web site Grouper.com for $65 million.Sony’s bet is the latest in a series made by big media companies. Last week, Barry Diller’s…
Nielsen Media Research on Wednesday said it raised its estimate of the number of television households in the U.S. by 1.1 percent to 114.4 million and issued its post-Hurricane Katrina numbers for New Orleans, which is now estimated to be…
CBS is splitting up the tribes for the 13th installment of its veteran reality series “Survivor” along ethnic lines, with blacks, Asian Americans, Hispanics and Anglos initially competing against each other in ethnicity-specific teams.The castaways for “Survivor: Cook Islands” will…
Ken Werner, a veteran television distribution executive, has been named president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The former WB executive assumes the role previously held for 17 years by Dick Robertson, who becomes senior adviser to the Warner Bros….