Cablevision Systems said Monday the costs associated with the shutdown of failed satellite service Voom could be as high as $130 million. But the company said the impact would not be significant to the bottom line because the sale of…
Viacom co-President and co-Chief Operating Officer Leslie Moonves on Monday repeated his commitment to pursue retransmission fees from cable operators, saying that although it might take three to five years before he can start charging cable to carry the CBS…
Sinclair Broadcast Group on Monday said it is selling its 17.5 percent stake in Atlantic Automotive, an automobile dealer group in the Mid-Atlantic region, as the company heeds shareholders’ desire to end the company’s investment in the dealer group.Baltimore-based Sinclair…
Thirteen-year CNN veteran Miles O’Brien is leaving Atlanta and the anchor desk of “Live From” to co anchor the news network’s “American Morning” with Soledad O’Brien in New York.“In a morning television landscape littered with mindless entertainment, there will be…
Adelphia Communications and ML Media Partners said Monday they have agreed to sell their cable system in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to a private-equity team that includes cable industry veteran Jeffrey Marcus.The $520 million deal has the two private-equity firms…
Radio One, the radio broadcaster that holds a 36 percent stake in cable channel TV One, on Monday said its board has authorized the company to launch a stock buyback program for up $150 million of its class A and…
Conchata Ferrell hails from West Virginia, but her story is, in many ways, classic Hollywood. Girl moves to New York. Does well on stage, in movies and on TV. Fast-forward through three decades of TV credits, Ms. Ferrell doing what…
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By Bradley JohnsonAdvertising AgeWant to know how your consumers are feeling after the weekend? Well, if you’re tracking young adults, bear in mind that they’re exhausted on Monday mornings and depressed to be back at work. But if you’re targeting…
By Amy HelmesSpecial to TelevisionWeek When HBO’s “Entourage” debuted last summer, six months after the finale of “Sex and the City,” it seemed questionable that the names Vince, Eric, Drama and Turtle-the four Hollywood hipsters at the center of the…