ESPN has signed a multiyear deal with the R&A, organizer of golf’s Open Championship, that takes effect in 2010. ESPN will televise 34 live hours of the British Open’s four rounds and also will produce six hours of encore highlights…
ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” attracted its biggest audience of the 2008-09 season for the week of Nov. 3. The late-night show garnered 1.92 million total viewers and 0.7 million viewers among adults 18-49, its best numbers so far this season….
Barbara Cochran, the network news veteran who has been president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association for more than 11 years, will step down and become consultant and president emeritus when her contract expires at the end of June. The…
TV Land has added three new series to its TV Land Prime 2009 lineup, which caters to viewers in their 40s. The half-hour reality show “How’d You Get So Rich?” will feature Joan Rivers searching the country to find out…
CBS is bringing back “Million Dollar Password.” The Regis Philbin-hosted game show will return to the Eye’s lineup Sunday, Dec. 21, at 8 p.m., the network announced Thursday. It replaces “The Amazing Race,” which will have concluded its current season…
Records were broken during October and November for the Web site of NBC Universal’s “Access Hollywood.” According to comScore figues, AccessHollywood.com attracted 2.5 million unique visitors during October, the most ever for the site. Omniture data found Nov. 12 had…
For the first time in its 12-year history, “The View” finished No. 1 in total viewers among daytime programs for the week of Nov. 3. The program attracted 4.67 million viewers and was first in women 18-49 for the second…
Gannett has acquired social media services provider Ripple6, which becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Gannett. Ripple6 currently powers Gannett’s MomsLikeMe.com, social media properties for Procter & Gamble and the soon-to-launch MixingBowl.com—a social network around meals and meal planning from…
“Pushing Daisies” may be close to pushing daisies. According to industry sources familiar with the situation, ABC has decided not to produce any more episodes of the critically beloved show this season. Word of the show’s apparent death began spreading…
NBC’s “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” special will feature guests Beyoncé, Tony Bennett, Neil Boyd, the Jonas Brothers, Harry Connick Jr., David Cook and Rosie O’Donnell. The special, which will be broadcast Dec. 3 from New York City’s Rockefeller Center, also…