A cable channel that hasn’t yet launched is already getting a new brand: Reality Central, the start-up network driven by CEO Larry Namer, has changed its name to Reality 24-7. According to a statement by the network, the switch was…
Cable operator Cox Communications on Thursday reported a 47 percent plunge in second-quarter profit even as the company booked higher revenue due to the increased popularity of advanced services.The Atlanta-based cable operator with 6.3 million subscribers reported a profit of…
CSTV: College Sports Television secured a carriage agreement with Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator. Local Comcast systems will be able to add CSTV to their systems on digital or digital sports tiers. Comcast will also make CSTV programming available…
LIN TV Corp. on Thursday said it swung to a profit in the second quarter as the company outlined plans to open up new revenue streams to help counterbalance the absence of political advertising spending in odd-numbered years, including a…
The day before ABC announced it was doing an American version of the hit U.K. family behavior makeover reality show “Supernanny,” Fox bought “Nanny 911,” a reality series with a remarkably similar premise.“Supernanny” stars Jo Frost, a veteran British nanny…
The cable news channels each drew bigger prime-time audiences Tuesday than they attracted Monday night without any competing prime-time Democratic National Convention coverage on the Big 3 broadcast networks. For CNN it was night two a winning streak over Fox…
New Line Television executives have slated off-net runs of “The Twilight Zone” to debut the week of Sept. 6. The series is now cleared on stations in 96 percent of the country, including New York’s WPIX-TV, Los Angeles’ KCAL-TV/KCBS-TV, Chicago’s…
After only two years and one month on the job, Fox Broadcasting’s Roberta Mell has left as executive VP of marketing.Ms. Mell, who was hired by former Fox Chairman Sandy Grushow, had one year left on her contract. A Fox…
NBC Universal Cable signed a long-term carriage agreement with DirecTV that covers all of the former Universal content except for the cable channel Trio. NBC is in the process of evaluating its plans for Trio, the arts network with about…
Station group Hearst-Argyle Television on Wednesday reported a 32 percent increase in second-quarter profit to $36 million, or 37 cents a share, compared with $27.3 million, or 29 cents a share, a year ago, as the company benefited from a…