The dominant U.S. satellite television services fell back in the auction for airwaves being conducted by the Federal Communications Commission, leaving wireless phone providers as leading contenders to buy the spectrum licenses.EchoStar Communications, the No. 2 satellite TV company, withdrew…
Financially troubled Granite Broadcasting has negotiated an additional two weeks to come up with an extensive restructuring plan. In a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Granite said the deadline for the plan has been moved from Aug….
Veteran ABC News investigative Chris Vlasto has been named senior broadcast producer of “Good Morning America.”The announcement Thursday by new “GMA” senior executive producer Jim Murphy said that Mr. Vlasto will oversee the first hour of the morning show. The…
The “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” will become the first network flagship newscast to be simulcast on the Web after it debuts in September.The move was announced Thursday by CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus and CBS Digital…
Internet audience measurement firm comScore Media Metrix said Tuesday that online video-sharing site YouTube broke into comScore’s top 50 ranking of Web sites for the first time in July. ComScore said YouTube counted 16 million visitors in July, up 20…
ABC’s debuting drama “The Nine,” CBS’s traditional sitcom “The Class” and NBC’s single-camera comedy “30 Rock” are among the new shows likely to succeed this fall, media research firm Carat said in its new-season programming report for the 2006-07 season.As…
TBS plans to televise a new microseries called “Lovebites,” sponsored by Unilever’s Sunsilk hair care brand.The 2½-minute episodes of “Lovebites” will run after “Sex and the City” and at other times on weeknights. They’ll be preceded by a Sunsilk billboard…
Channel One, a news provider for teens, has launched Livewire, a 24-hour broadband video channel available to anyone with high-speed Internet access. ChannelOne.com, which says it has nearly 400,000 unique teens visitors each month, hopes to provide teens with an…
NATPE Hooks Up With Achilles for Mobile++: The nonprofit TV industry organization and convention organizer National Association of Television Program Executives is partnering with event planner Achilles Media to organize and produce its third annual NATPE Mobile++ event, which covers…
GSN Brings In Roberts as Programming Head: GSN has named former Sky Networks executive Jamie Roberts as head of programming, the network announced Wednesday. Mr. Roberts takes over from Ian Valentine, who left the network in June and currently has…