Keli Lee has been promoted to executive VP of casting for ABC Entertainment Television Group. The announcement was made Wednesday by Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment, and Mark Pedowitz, president of Touchstone Television.Ms. Lee oversees all prime-time casting for…
Liberty Media announced this week that its planned spinoff of the recently formed Discovery Holding will take place July 21.The new company will consist of Liberty’s 50 percent stake in cable network giant Discovery Communications as well as Ascent Media,…
VH1 will launch on Thursday a broadband entertainment network called VSpot, the network said Wednesday. VH1 will premiere the first episode of “The Surreal Life 5” on VSpot at its launch — three days before the series premieres on the…
Three presenting sponsors of G4’s “G-Phoria” video game award show are returning for this year’s edition, the network announced Wednesday. The sponsors are EB Games, Jeep and Mountain Dew. G4 also said it is launching an extensive advertising and marketing…
For the first full week after May sweeps, which included the Memorial Day holiday, a presidential press conference and the French Open, the majority of top-rated syndicated strips saw declines, while a host of first-run one-hour weekend shows grew week…
MTV is getting into the poker business by forming an alliance with Myelin Media, the network said Wednesday. Myelin publishes the interactive entertainment software for the Texas Hold ’em game “Stacked With Daniel Negreanu.” MTV and its MTV Games unit…
Verizon Communications, pressing ahead with its plan to introduce a video service to compete with cable, announced Wednesday that it has struck a carriage agreement with Turner Broadcasting System to carry several channels on the phone giant’s new video service…
Ken Ehrlich, who produced the most recent Grammy Awards telecast, has been named executive producer of the “57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards,” scheduled to air Sunday, Sept. 18, on CBS. The announcement was made Tuesday by Nina Tassler, president of…
Buena Vista Television is in talks with Miami-based recording artist and producer Gloria Estefan to host her own syndicated talk show for fall 2007, sources said.A spokeswoman for Buena Vista declined to comment, saying the distributor does not discuss its…
Fox News Channel correspondent Brian Wilson has been promoted to congressional correspondent. His beat will range from breaking news on Capitol Hill-he was the first to report on TV last week that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was retiring from the…