AMC said Tuesday it plans to appeal a New York State Supreme Court ruling that Time Warner Cable can drop the channel due to changes to its programming. AMC, owned by Cablevision’s Rainbow Media unit, sued to prevent Time Warner…
DirecTV plans to carry MTV Desi, a channel designed to serve young South Asian Americans, effective Tuesday, the network said Monday. MTV said MTV Desi is the first MTV World channel to launch and that it expects to launch MTV…
Christian broadcaster Daystar Television Network has petitioned a California appeals court to allow the network to purchase Orange County, Calif.’s PBS station for its original bid of $25.1 million, two weeks after the court overturned the sale of KOCE-TV to…
Veteran live concert and special event director Bruce Gowers and producers Renato Basile and Michael Seligman have been added to the production team for the “57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards,” which will be broadcast Sunday, Sept. 18 (8-11 p.m., live…
Public broadcasting won a key commitment Monday for full federal funding in the Senate, but Republican leaders made clear they expect public broadcasters to eliminate what they perceive as political bias in PBS and NPR programming. The GOP’s messenger was…
David Neal has been named executive producer of NBC Sports, the network announced Monday. He will be only the sixth person to hold that post. Mr. Neal, who was executive VP of NBC Olympics, succeeds Tommy Roy, who has held…
Two partners in United Talent Agency, Martin Lesak and Jason Heyman, have left the company and joined rival Creative Artists Agency as talent agents.Mr. Lesak, who headed UTA’s TV talent department, will join CAA’s television department. Mr. Heyman, known particularly…
Richard “Never Kissed a Girl” Rubin has gone Hollywood. The New Jersey native, whose extreme geek antics on The WB’s “Beauty and the Geek” made him the breakout character of the summer TV season, has tapped his savings and moved…
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MSNBC has uncorked an eye-catching, lighthearted, what-the-hell promotional campaign for “The Situation With Tucker Carlson” that spoofs ’70s cop shows.MSNBC’s spot for “Tucker Carlson,” which premiered June 13, “is a big swing for the fences. It’s different than anything we’ve…