The series premiere of ABC’s real estate comedy “Hot Properties” on Friday was down from its year-ago time period performance in the adults 18 to 49 demographic, but built on its “Hope & Faith” lead-in to become the highest-rated comedy…
SBC Communications, the nation’s No. 2 telephone company and soon to be a provider of video services, announced Monday that it has hired former Fox Cable Networks executive Rob Thun to help with SBC’s programming efforts.Based in Los Angeles, Mr….
DirecTV announced Monday that it has eliminated 100 jobs at its Latin American unit as the company moves ahead with a strategy to consolidate that division’s operations into a single office.Many of the affected jobs will be at the company’s…
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News Corp. announced last week that its Fox Interactive Media unit has completed two of its large Internet acquisitions: the $580 million purchase of Intermix Media and the $650 million purchase of IGN Entertainment. The IGN transaction was completed without…
Initial data from Hyundai’s media agency Carat indicates that younger-skewing networks were the best hosts for interactive ads from Hyundai dealers that ran on the Cox Phoenix system this summer. Viewers could use their remote controls to request more information…
Following through on network threats to fight the Federal Communications Commission’s new children’s TV rules, Viacom last Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to review the agency’s regulations. The owners of the Big 3 TV networks previously…
Cliché of the day: Some reporters will do anything for a story. Take Bill Geist, who is Mr. Wry-te to fans of CBS News’ “Sunday Morning.” Mr. Geist didn’t just submit to the “Trading Spaces” experience-which starts with rolling over…