CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus announced Monday that Meg Oliver is the new anchor of the network’s overnight newscast, “Up to the Minute.” She succeeds Melissa McDermott. Ms. Oliver has served as a Washington-based freelance correspondent for CBS…
Cartoon Network is expanding its popular older-skewing late-night Adult Swim block by an extra half-hour, the network announced Monday. Four nights a week, Adult Swim will begin at 10:30 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. The service is also launching Adult…
Legendary WABC-TV anchor Bill Beutel, who was the longest-serving local news anchor in New York TV history and who helped change local news as a member of WABC-TV’s pioneering “Eyewitness News” team, died Saturday.Mr. Beutel had suffered from a progressive…
Fox has ordered two additional seasons of its half-hour series “The Simpsons,” which will take the animated comedy through 2007-08, its 19th season. In addition, Fox has picked up the animated comedy “King of the Hill” for 2006-07, the series’…
Sony Pictures Television said Monday it has cleared its syndicated talk strip “The Greg Behrendt Show” in 94 percent of the country for the fall and its courtroom half-hour strip “Judge Maria Lopez” in 98 percent of the country. In…
Internet TV firm Brightcove said Monday it plans to acquire MetaStories, a provider of rich media publishing tools used by media companies such as Yahoo, Discovery Networks, National Geographic and Scripps to produce broadband video content. “What we recognized in…
CBS Corp. and Verizon Communications said Monday they have reached an agreement under which the telephone giant will carry CBS’s broadcast signal and offer CBS shows on-demand to customers of Verizon’s new video service, FiOS.Verizon will have rights to CBS’s…
The satellite service’s March Madness package lets fans watch three games simultaneously on the screen, and it automatically updates the tournament brackets that track winners and losers. DirecTV capped its five-week marketing campaign with an advertisement on the front page…
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