Google’s billion-dollar investment in Time Warner’s America Online allows the search-engine giant to require AOL to offer the Google stake to the public starting July 1, 2008, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The terms of Google’s…
Cable giant Comcast became the second cable operator to officially introduce a family-friendly tier of programming, announcing Thursday a plan in which it will offer a 16-channel package for $14.95 a month.The Family Tier, as it will be called, will…
ABC News announced Thursday that Verizon’s mobile TV service, V Cast, plans to offer ABC News Mobile programming. The deal means that V Cast subscribers will have access to video content including clips from “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight,”…
The Senate Wednesday night voted to confirm the nominations of Deborah Taylor Tate and Michael Copps to seats at the Federal Communications Commission. Ms. Tate, a director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, is a Republican. Mr. Copps, an incumbent Democrat…
Roger Ailes has a new contract that will pay him a $5 million annual base salary plus an annual bonus of at least $1 million and plus performance-based bonuses to serve for the next five years as chairman and CEO…
Spanish-language Telemundo Communications Group for the first time is going to be included in Nielsen Media Research’s National Television Index. The announcement Wednesday followed by a day the news that the more powerful Univision would become the first Spanish-language network…
The Senate on Wednesday approved a compromise measure that would require broadcasters to make the switch to digital TV by Feb. 17, 2009. But the Senate deleted a few unrelated provisions from the massive budget bill in which the DTV…
The issue of succession at Time Warner became clearer Wednesday after the company named Jeff Bewkes as president and chief operating officer and announced that Don Logan, chairman of Time Warner’s media and communications group, would retire at year-end.The move…
Former ABC News “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel and former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw will be interviewed by Tim Russert on the Christmas Day edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press.” They are scheduled to talk about politics, press and…
John Orlando, who has spent five years with the National Association of Broadcasters, most recently serving as executive VP of government relations, is returning to CBS on Jan. 17 as Washington senior VP for the new CBS Corp., after the…