The National Association of Broadcasters has hired Douglas Wiley as executive VP of government relations effective May 15, the NAB announced Thursday. Mr. Wiley, who is currently senior VP of government relations for the Electronic Industries Alliance, was previously an…
KristieAnne Reed has been promoted to executive VP for the production company Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Ms. Reed will serve as the No. 2 executive for the company, which produces the “CSI” franchise, “Close to Home” and “Without a Trace” for…
MTV will partner with Snoop Dogg’s Hip-Hop Gaming League for a series of events and on-air specials, the network announced Thursday. MTV2 will air coverage of the video game league, whose finals will be held in Los Angeles next month….
NBC’s five-night reality experiment “Celebrity Cooking Challenge” has ended after only three days. The network is moving the Thursday and Friday episodes of the culinary competition reality series “Cooking” to NBC.com and replacing them with sitcoms and the more successful…
Political spending on TV will top $1 billion in 2006 and might top the record set in 2004, predicted Evan Tracey, chief operating officer of the campaign media analysis group at TNS Media Intelligence. Speaking at the Television Bureau of…
Newspaper and television station owner Belo said Thursday that its first-quarter profit tumbled 27 percent to $17.3 million, hurt in part by $4.7 million in stock-based compensation expenses booked in the quarter.Revenue rose 6.5 percent to $372 million, driven by…
As new technology makes it easier for consumers to form communities around specific areas of interests, local television stations are well positioned to take advantage of the trend, given their ties to the communities they serve and their ability to…
NBC News has named Natalie Morales national correspondent for the “Today” show. In addition to reporting for “Today,” she will continue to be featured regularly in the program’s third hour. Ms. Morales joined NBC News in 2002 as an MSNBC…
The CW has added three Clear Channel-owned stations as affiliates, raising its clearances to more than 83 percent of the country.The newly signed stations are WKRC-DT, the digital station of Clear Channel’s CBS affiliate in Cincinnati (the 34th largest market…
Car-enthusiast magazine Motor Trend is teaming with Multicast Networks Group to launch a car-themed broadcast television network that local TV stations could carry on a portion of their digital broadcast signal.To be called Motor Trend TV, the new channel is…