Alex Ignon has been promoted to VP of marketing and promotion for King World Productions. The announcement was made Tuesday by Delilah Loud, senior VP of advertising and promotion for King World Productions.Mr. Ignon has served since 2000 as director…
Fox’s MyNetworkTV has signed an affiliation agreement with Young Broadcasting-owned KELO-DT, the digital-only UPN channel operated by KELO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Sioux Falls, S.D. The affiliation deal, announced Monday, raises the new network’s clearances to 66 stations covering nearly…
Gospel Music Channel said Tuesday it has reached a carriage agreement with Comcast.The agreement permits Gospel Music Channel to seek carriage from local Comcast managers. The network is scheduled to launch in the near future in Atlanta, Nashville and Savannah,…
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, publicly released draft legislation late Monday that would make it easier for telephone companies to get into the pay TV business. Phone companies and cable TV operators alike could seek…
OLN and the Professional Bull Riders signed a new agreement that will keep bull-riding events on the network through 2010, OLN said Monday. OLN will continue to televise PBR contests on Saturday and Sunday nights throughout the bull-riding season.
In its first major distribution agreement since debuting last August, Current announced an agreement with Comcast that boosts the network’s carriage from 20 million to 28 million households. The deal represents nearly all Comcast systems and will take effect by…
Comedy Central has ordered “Naked Trucker and T-Bones,” a half-hour variety show set in a middle-America truck stop, and “Halfway Home,” an improv comedy about a group of parolees in a rehabilitation facility. The network has ordered six episodes of…
It’s once more into the morning-show breach for Steve Friedman, the former executive of NBC’s “Today” and CBS’s “The Early Show,” who has returned to CBS News as VP of morning broadcasts for the division.Mr. Friedman will oversee “The Early…
Fox’s MyNetworkTV has signed an affiliation agreement with KTTU-TV, Belo Corp.’s UPN affiliate in Tucson, Ariz., the 71st-largest market in the country. The Tucson clearance, announced last Friday, increases MyNetworkTV affiliates to 65 stations reaching more than 55 percent of…
AT&T’s McKone Wages War for Video Services