Online media company iVillage has named Brian Donlon to the post of VP and general manager of iVillage Television. He will oversee all programming and production of The Newborn Channel, the direct satellite program shown in hospitals. Mr. Donlon will…
Tough guy Dick Robertson, the Arnold Schwarzenegger of the syndication world, has unleashed some new collateral damage just weeks after delivering a direct hit on NATPE’s annual gathering in Las Vegas.Mr. Robertson is a veteran player, who like Mr. Schwarzenegger…
MGM may increase Rainbow Media stakeMGM may soon increase its 20 percent stake in Rainbow Media Group to as much as 50 percent, which would allow it to consolidate Rainbow’s cable channels on its balance sheet, according to knowledgeable sources….
In “Out & About” (EM, Feb. 4), Neil Baker, senior VP of ad sales at E!, was pictured at the annual Sundance Bash in Park City, Utah.
Shakespeare wrote-and Edward R. Murrow quoted the line while assailing Joe McCarthy-“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.” Yeah, well, easy for him to say. Today the fault may well be…
In “Bicoastal cable buys on the horizon” (EM, Jan. 21), there is no contractual relationship between Adlink and the New York Interconnect to sell together.
NBC has taken its share of flak from the media, Congress and the medical profession for announcing it will now accept ads for hard liquors such as scotch, gin, rum and vodka. Critics of NBC are unappeased by the network’s…
Price to become new leader of NATAS Los Angeles-Peter Price will be named president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, sources said, adding that the announcement could come as early as Monday. The position has been vacant…
In a branding coup, Court TV will put Catherine Crier, the cable network’s signature newscaster, and the Court logo right inside CBS affiliates’ local newscasts around the country.It’s part of a unique deal tying Court’s real-life “Forensic Files” series into…
Posted Friday, Feb. 8, at 10:45 a.m. (PT); last updated at 3:40 p.m. Hollings plans hearing on EchoStar-DirecTV merger Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, plans to hold a hearing on the $26 billion merger of…