CBS will air “The Price Is Right Salutes the Troops” on Nov. 14 at 9 p.m. The prime-time special will feature host Drew Carey and an audience made up entirely of Armed Services members and their families. The special, which…
Cablevision Systems and the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research have launched an interactive VOD channel as part of their curePC campaign. The Lustgarten channel offers information about pancreatic cancer and the fight against the disease to iO TV digital…
Lifetime Networks’ Web site MyLifetime.com and Shop.com are teaming up to launch myLifetime.Shop.com. The co-branded e-commerce Web site will be integrated into myLifetime.com and will offer thousands of brands from Shop.com, which features more than 2,000 retailers. The site also…
Venture capital firm Velocity Interactive Group named former Fox executive Mickie Rosen as an investment partner, the company announced today. Ms. Rosen will focus on video, music, social media, publishing, games and online advertising at Velocity. The company makes investments…
Web traffic to ABCNews.com continues to grow, with the number of unique visitors during October 2008 up 58% compared to the same time last year. ABCNews.com received 23.2 million unique visitors and 253.2 million page and video views, an increase…
With a current administration known for its secrecy on its way out, the Radio Television News Directors Association and other media organizations issued a letter to President-elect Barack Obama today, urging him to “take immediate steps to insure open government,…
The Television Advertising Bureau predicts a 7% to 11% national decline in local TV advertising in 2009, a downward revision made after the deterioration of economic conditions accelerated in September. The TVB also predicted a year-over-year decline of 7.1% for…
North American television shipment year-over-year unit growth during the third quarter slowed from the second quarter, though it still exceeded previous forecasts, NPD Group DisplaySearch said today. U.S. customers took advantage of cheaper plasma TVs to buy more flat-screen televisions…
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and Turner Classic Movies are teaming up to release the TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection in early 2009. The collection will compromise 60 top films in 15 themed groups, which will be released on DVD…
Lifetime has ordered a full season of original comedy “Rita Rocks.” With the announcement, seven more episodes will be produced to bring the series’ first-season order to 20. The comedy, which stars Nicole Sullivan as an overworked wife and mother,…