“Entertainment Tonight and “The Insider” correspondent Steven Cojocaru has filmed a pilot for Paramount Domestic Television that could lead to a one-hour syndicated strip starring the fashion and pop culture diva.Mr. Cojocaru, the former West Coast style editor for People…
NBC’s newest reality offering, “The Biggest Loser,” debuted Tuesday, Oct. 19 with a 90-minute special that brought in female viewers but was still down year to year in adults 18 to 49.The show, in which overweight contestants compete to lose…
A one-hour TV special covering the 15th Annual Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Awards has been cleared in syndication in 80 percent of the country. L’Ore´al Paris is the title sponsor of the live event and the syndicated hour.The…
Rainbow Media Enterprises, the programming and satellite operator unit slated to be spun off from parent Cablevision Systems later this year, on Friday named Joseph Lhota and John Adamovich as co-chief financial officers.Both executives will report to Rainbow CEO Thomas…
Former Viacom Entertainment Group Chairman Jonathan Dolgen was elected to serve on the board of Paul Allen’s Charter Communications, the cable operator announced Friday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.Mr. Dolgen was ousted in July from Viacom and presently…
ESPN said its new original series “Tilt” will be sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales and will star Eddie Cibrian and Chris Bauer. The series, set at a fictional poker tournament, is set to premiere Jan. 13.
Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta on Thursday reported a 31 percent surge in fiscal first-quarter profit, as the company reported strong demand for its digital-video-recorder-capable cable boxes.The results came as the company announced that Chairman, President and CEO Jim McDonald…
Ascent Media Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media that provides creative and technical services to the entertainment industry, struck a deal Thursday to acquire Cinetech, a motion picture restoration, protection and preservation company, from private-equity firm Westar Capital.Terms…
A bundled-services partnership between satellite operator EchoStar Communications and telecommunications giant SBC Communications generated 105,000 new video customers for EchoStar, SBC’s third-quarter financial results show.The results, released Thursday, beat some analysts’ projections, yet fell short of others. Bernstein Research analyst…
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry’s campaign announced Thursday that it will not participate in a Sinclair Broadcast Group program slated for Friday evening that is expected to include criticisms of Sen. Kerry’s Vietnam-era antiwar activities. In a statement earlier…