Leslie Oren has been named senior VP of publicity and corporate communications for Fox Television Studios.Ms. Oren joins Fox from Telepictures Productions, where she served as VP of publicity, overseeing PR efforts for the company’s syndicated shows, including “The Ellen…
About 39 percent of TV viewing households rely on analog TV sets that will go dark without a digital-to-analog converter after the broadcast industry’s switch to digital, according to a study released Wednesday in Washington by the Consumers Union and…
Barry Jossen has been promoted to executive VP of production for Touchstone Television. Mr. Jossen will continue to oversee production of Touchstone’s original programming, including series, pilots, late-night, variety, made-for-television movies and miniseries.Touchstone President Mark Pedowitz, to whom he reports,…
DirecTV said Wednesday it has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission charging that iN Demand, a pay-per-view and video-on-demand service owned by three cable companies, engages in unfair pricing practices designed to favor cable providers over satellite companies.The…
HBO will schedule its new series “Rome” to air seven days a week on its channels, including each episode’s premiere Sunday nights at 9 p.m. beginning Aug. 28, the network said Wednesday. The previous week’s episode will rerun at 8…
Comedy Central will televise a roast of actress Pamela Anderson on Aug. 14, the network said Wednesday. The program will be taped Aug. 7 in Los Angeles and will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Ms. Anderson is the first woman…
Nielsen Media Research has agreed to allow time to have an audit done in new Local People Meter markets before the meter-only LPM service replaces the old diary-meter service in each market. The agreement does not capitulate to those client-critics…
NBC is pulling the plug on its high-profile, eight-part “9/11” miniseries, a project that top network executives were heavily promoting as late as the May upfronts. The project was designed to give a far-reaching account of the airline hijackings and…
Driven by its summer reality hit “Dancing With the Stars” and the NBA finals, ABC won the week ended June 26 in adults 18 to 49, but CBS prevailed in total viewers.Game 7 of the NBA finals on Thursday, June…
NBC Universal turned to one of its station ad sales executives for its new head of cable entertainment sales. Mark Miller, who was executive VP of national sales for the NBC Universal Television Stations, was named senior VP of NBC…