Fox News Channel’s slogan, “Fair & Balanced,” is under legal attack from two directions on the left of the conservative cable news operation. MoveOn.org and Common Cause on Monday asked the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Enforcement to order Fox…
Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of poker, interactive television company ICTV partnered with Zone4Play to deploy Zone4Play’s ITV games on ICTV’s HeadendWare platform. The games will include blackjack, slots, video poker, Caribbean poker and roulette. Users can access the…
NASCAR and Cartoon Network linked up Monday to introduce the ‘NASCARtoon Racing’ brand, an on-air and online campaign designed to educate and expose Cartoon’s young viewers to NASCAR racing. The promotion will include a national sweepstakes in which kids can…
The latest consumer research from Leichtman Research Group finds that more than 3 percent of U.S. homes have a digital video recorder and 10 percent of all cable subscribers have used video-on-demand service. These figures are low, the research firm…
CBS News President Andrew Heyward told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour Monday that his network does not need to provide full prime-time coverage of the upcoming presidential conventions because the conventions in their entirety aren’t necessarily…
HBO’s sweeping AIDS saga “Angels in America” and Fox’s quirky family comedy “Arrested Development” cleaned up at the Television Critics Association Awards Saturday night, winning two awards each. “Angels” executive producer and director Mike Nichols accepted awards for Outstanding Achievement…
HBO’s sweeping AIDS saga “Angels in America” and Fox’s quirky family comedy “Arrested Development” cleaned up at the Television Critics Association Awards Saturday night, winning two awards each. “Angels” executive producer and director Mike Nichols accepted awards for Outstanding Achievement…
Even though Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” happened six months ago, Viacom Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Leslie Moonves once again apologized for the mishap during the summer Television Critics Association press tour, but warned of increased government scrutiny…
Riding high on his network’s summer ratings performance, Viacom Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Leslie Moonves on Sunday pointed out that the use of reruns and familiar shows by CBS pokes holes in the idea of a 52-week programming year….
‘Top Model’ Struts for UPN “America’s Next Top Model” returned to UPN with a bang last night. It scored a 2.2 Nielsen Media Research rating and 6 share in adults 18 to 49 and 4.9 million viewers-the second-largest audience ever…