UPN has signed a new primary affiliation agreement with Gray Television’s WCTV-DT, the group’s digital station in Tallahassee, Fla., the 109th-largest TV market in the country, according to Nielsen Media Research. The deal, which takes effect April 1, is the…
NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has renewed its syndicated reality strip “Starting Over” for the 2005-06 season. “Starting Over,” which has been cleared in more than 90 percent of the country, is getting 35 local-market upgrades for its third season….
David Doebler has been promoted to president and general manager of WVIT-TV, the NBC Universal-owned and -operated station in Hartford, Conn. The appointment is effective immediately. Mr. Doebler had been president and general manager of sister station WVTM-TV in Birmingham,…
VH1 announced three new reality series Tuesday. Two of the shows, “Hogan Knows Best” and “Being Bonaduce,” continue the MTV Networks strategy of filling programming hours by following around celebrities with reality show cameras. In “Hogan Knows Best,” the subject…
Cablevision Systems is said to be close to joining two private-equity firms in submitting an offer to purchase bankrupt cable operator Adelphia Communications, potentially unseating a joint bid from Comcast Corp. and Time Warner that has widely been seen as…
Court TV to Rebrand Programming: Court TV on Tuesday announced plans to rebrand both its prime-time and daytime programming. Its prime-time programming will be called Seriously Entertaining, reflecting a range of legal- and investigation-based shows ranging from the serious, such…
VH1 Tuesday said it began production of a fifth season of “The Surreal Life.” The new cast includes supermodel Janice Dickinson; controversial slugger Jose Canseco; Sandi Denton, who recorded as Pepa, of Salt-N-Pepa, Bronson Pinchot, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth of “The Apprentice,”…
Anne Sweeney, co-chairman of Media Networks for The Walt Disney Co. and president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, will be the opening speaker at Promax&BDA’s annual conference, the organization said Tuesday. The conference will be held in New York June…
With help from college basketball, CBS won the week ended March 27 in both total viewers and the adults 18 to 49 demographic, but the top-rated show for the week in the demo was still Fox’s “American Idol.”The Tuesday edition…
All of the joint sales agreements that Paxson Communications set up nearly five years ago for 47 of its television stations are in the process of being unwound, according to sources familiar with the situation.Who initiated the unwinding is subject…