Last January in this space, I made three predictions for the coming year: 1. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. will buy DirecTV.2. Hollywood and the tech industry will reach a digital TV compromise.3. TV manufacturers will use sports to help drive…
Nissan North America is shopping for a media-audit company to keep a close eye on its $966 million in media spending. A decision is expected this month.Steven Wilhite, VP of marketing for the Nissan and Infiniti brands, confirmed the search…
Although it has a very hip edge, there is also an underlying sweetness that Carson, Kyan and the gang on Bravo’s smash hit “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” often show for some of their subjects, especially as they get…
She’s been an entertainment correspondent for “Today” for 12 years, and now Jill Rappaport’s career is taking off in a whole new direction. She’s the host of “NBC on Ted,” a 15- to 20-minute entertainment-driven TV package that will be…
Advertising & AgenciesCourtenay Cronin to account executive, Huey/ Paprocki Advertising, from assistant account executive. Also, Tom Sobotta to account supervisor, from account supervisor, Fitzgerald & Co.; Danielle Bryson to senior account executive, from senior account executive, BBDO Atlanta; Aaron Thorton…
“Arrested Development’s” Jeffrey Tambor, who gives a spirited performance as family patriarch George Bluth Sr., was supposed to appear in only the first episode of the series before his character headed off to prison. To Mitch Hurwitz, the show’s creator…
While NBC is on the road to Athens and the 2004 Olympics this summer, the network’s affiliates are headed to the O-Zone on NBCOlympics.com. More than 200 members of the affiliate body last month got a preview of the first…
MSNBC is expected to announce this week that Deborah Norville, who has anchored King World’s “Inside Edition” since 1995, will host an hour-long weeknight show starting sometime in January. A source familiar with Ms. Norville’s new deal said King World…
Twentieth Television’s syndicated strip “Good Day Live,” considered by some analysts to be a bubble show for the fall, will in fact return for another go-round next season.The renewal of the Los Angeles-based show, which began as a local experiment…
As it looks ahead to being swallowed by NBC, USA Network is putting its most aggressive slate of original programming on the air in the first quarter.Despite being one of the first cable networks to offer original programming, USA has…