CBS News and Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) have announced a multi-year extension of their longstanding newsgathering relationship. In the agreement announced Thursday, TBS gets exclusive access to CBS News programs and news coverage, including more than 300 stories daily from…
Before it even opened, Turner Broadcasting crashed the party to buy rights to what has become the top comedy in each of its first two weeks at the box office. After Turner’s TBS airs “Wedding Crashers,” Comedy Central will have…
FX’s Iraq war drama “Over There” got off to a strong start Wednesday night. The show was seen by 4.1 million viewers and received a 1.8 rating among viewers 18 to 49, according to Nielsen Media Research. The figures are…
ABC News will be contributing more content, packages and video stream options to America Online under a renewed and expanded deal the partners announced Thursday.Among the highlights of the new deal are simultaneous live raw broadband streams of breaking news…
In his first appearance at the Television Critics Association press tour as president of entertainment for Fox, Peter Liguori said Thursday the network has set up an independent inquiry that is still looking into allegations that “American Idol” judge Paula…
Steve Redisch, CNN’s deputy Washington bureau chief since 2002, has gained an additional title: executive producer of CNN’s White House unit. The new role means that Mr. Redisch, who joined CNN in 1987 as a producer for D.C.-based anchors, will…
Tyler Mathisen has been named managing editor of CNBC Business News. He will continue to appear occasionally on-air, but will stop co-anchoring the weekday “Closing Bell” report effective Friday, according to an announcement from David Friend, senior VP of CNBC…
A year after James Goldston joined ABC News as a senior producer of prime-time specials and investigative reports, the BBC and ITV veteran has been tapped to become executive producer of “Nightline” following the departure of Tom Bettag at the…
Japanese conglomerate and Sony Pictures Entertainment parent Sony Corp. reported Thursday that it swung to a fiscal first-quarter loss of 8.7 billion Japanese yen ($77.6 million), compared with a year-earlier profit of 25.1 billion yen driven by a sharp decline…
A sharp slowdown in political advertising revenue plus a pair of tax benefits led to a mixed second quarter for station group Hearst-Argyle Television, which reported Thursday a decline in revenue but a sharp increase in profit.Hearst-Argyle, which owns 25…