Gemstar-TV Guide announced plans to offer an interactive program guide for mobile phones that will let consumers access program listings and schedule program recordings from their mobile phones. The company also launched a mobile version of TV Guide Channel with…
Comedy Central’s “South Park” has been honored with the George Foster Peabody Award, a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding television and radio broadcasting.The Peabody committee cited “South Park” as a “notoriously rude, undeniably fearless lampoon of all that is self-important and…
Dan Jbara has been named executive producer of Sony Pictures Television’s syndicated fall strip “The Greg Behrendt Show.” Melanie Chilek, senior VP of syndication and reality programming for SPT, made the announcement Wednesday.Mr. Jbara served as executive producer on Sony’s…
NBC Universal’s Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo said Wednesday that it is partnering with Mexico’s Grupo Xtra to form a television production company there.Financial terms were not disclosed.To be called Estudios Mexicanos Telemundo, the production company is expected to produce shows for…
Ion Media Networks, the company previously known as Paxson Communications, said Wednesday it has hired investment bank UBS Securities to advise the broadcaster on strategies that will improve Ion’s financial flexibility.The decision to hire UBS comes after Ion refinanced $1.1…
Rude, righteous and rock-’em, sock ’em TV series were among the 32 winners of the 65th Annual Peabody Awards announced Wednesday by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Comedy Central’s proudly offensive “South Park, Fox’s…
Three hours after Katic Couric told the TV world she is leaving the “Today” show at the end of May, CBS made its official announcement that she has a multiyear agreement to be anchor and managing editor of the “CBS…
With barely disguised emotion, Katie Couric told “Today” colleagues and viewers Wednesday that what she called “the worst-kept secret in America” is true: “I’m going to be working on ‘CBS Evening News’ and ’60 Minutes.’”Her widely expected announcement came at…
Despite facing CBS’s telecast of the NCAA men’s basketball championship and original dramas on Fox, NBC’s special two-hour edition “Deal or No Deal” led the network to a rare Monday night win in the adults 18 to 49 demographic and…
Katie Couric will celebrate her 15th anniversary as co-host of NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday and also may announce that she will be leaving the show on which she became a $15 million-a-year star. Those who have been avidly reading the…