The escalating battle between Time Warner and billionaire financier Carl Icahn appeared to be nearing an end late Thursday after both sides were in negotiations to settle their months-long dispute.According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Icahn…
Time Warner’s New Line Television is offering its 1990s first-run action series “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s the Lost World” for syndication for fall 2006. Fifty-two episodes of the hour-long program will be introduced on a barter-only basis in what New…
Wednesday’s exclusive first interview with Vice President Dick Cheney after he shot and wounded a fellow quail hunter last weekend boosted “Special Report With Brit Hume” to a 2006 high of 2.1 million viewers. “Special Report” at 8 p.m. (ET)…
ABC News President David Westin told his staff Thursday that ABC “World News Tonight” co-anchor Bob Woodruff, who suffered severe head and other injuries in a roadside bomb blast last month in Iraq, continues “to make progress.” Mr. Westin included…
House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said Thursday that he has urged the Federal Communications Commission to eliminate a rule that bars owners of daily newspapers from buying broadcast stations in their markets. In a speech sponsored by…
Fox’s “American Idol” was the big winner Tuesday, with numbers for the musical reality series more than doubling the numbers for NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics in the adults 18 to 49 demographic.The hour-long “Idol” at 8 p.m. (ET)…
Sen. Ted Stevens on Wednesday said he’s sympathetic to telephone industry criticisms of the nation’s current system of local cable TV franchising — and that he might move legislation this year to address the franchising issue. “We have to find…
LIN TV Chairman Gary Chapman said Wednesday it isn’t certain whether his WB and UPN affiliates will seize the opportunity to be converted to CW affiliates, noting that there may be greater revenue opportunities if those stations become independent.“The truth…
CBS will premiere its midseason comedy “The New Adventures of Old Christine” on Monday, March 13, at 9:30 p.m. (ET) and will move the current time-period holder “Courting Alex” and previous time-period holder “Out of Practice” to Wednesdays.“This year we…
Reality series producer Bunim-Murray Productions and international producer and distributor Diverse/FBC Group announced Tuesday that the two companies have entered into a strategic partnership agreement to exploit both entities’ formats. The agreement includes a co-production and distribution deal in which…