TodayShow.com has received a makeover. The new Web site allows users to customize their TodayShow.com homepage, while extending the broadcast’s brand with headlines and video from the show. Visitors can watch the entire show online and then embed or share…
Automaker Infiniti has become the exclusive sponsor of college basketball in the Big Ten and SEC conferences. It also has signed new multimedia ad deals with ESPN and CBS. ESPN will air an “Infiniti Pre-Game Showcase” before key games, and…
Isaac Mizrahi and Kelly Rowland will host Bravo’s competition series “The Fashion Show.” “The Fashion Show’s” professional designer contestants will have their fate determined in each week’s challenge by a studio audience and a panel of judges. IMG Fashion Senior…
TV Land has cast Stacey Anderson as the star of its elimination dating series “The Cougar.” The 40-year-old Ms. Anderson is a realtor from Scottsdale, Ariz. Vivca A. Fox hosts the eight-episode series, which premieres April 15 on TV Land…
Inspired by the success of Canadian import “Flashpoint,” CBS has picked up 13 episodes of the Canadian TV series “The Bridge,” which it will again share with CTV. The series was originally developed as a two-hour movie and backdoor pilot…
“Coraline” director Henry Selick will be the featured keynote speaker at the NAB Show. Mr. Selick will speak on April 20 about digital technology and how it has helped to revitalize stop-motion animation. “Coraline” is the first stop-motion animated feature…
Hyundai is going for Oscar gold. The Korean car company said it will air eight commercials during Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast on ABC. Longtime sponsors General Motors and L’Oreal reportedly have pulled out of the event, often referred to as…
The National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Association has named CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz its 2008 National Sportscaster of the Year. The award, which is being bestowed for the 50th year, was voted on by 1,000 members of the NSSA. Mr. Nantz…
Robert De Niro, Tina Fey and Drew Barrymore will be talkin’ it up on the first week of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” NBC Thursday announced the guest list for Mr. Fallon’s new talk show, and not surprisingly, the new…
Jeff Block, general manager of ABC-affiliate KGTV in San Diego, said he was expecting the worst and hoping for the best when it came to yesterday’s transition to digital TV signals. Based on the reaction from viewers, “It’s mostly the…