News Corp. President-Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin is unleashing a broad defense of broadcasters against FCC indecency enforcement and warning starkly about the danger that a Supreme Court case could pose to First Amendment freedoms. Honored Tuesday night at the…
ABC has picked up sophomore drama “Private Practice” for a full season. The network ordered nine more episodes of the “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff Tuesday, according to sources familiar with the order. The move doesn’t come as a surprise given the…
YouTube’s audience jumped in September to nearly 82 million unique viewers watching more than 5.3 billion streams, according to the latest figures from Nielsen Online. That’s a huge boost from August, when the site’s 77 million unique visitors checked out…
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has named Robert Tercek its president of digital media. Mr. Tercek will oversee all multimedia ventures for the network beginning Nov. 3. Mr. Tercek will be responsible for creating and marketing multiplatform opportunities for OWN…
Embattled search giant Yahoo plans to slash about 10% of its work force, or 1,500 jobs, to reduce costs, the company said today. The layoffs occur amidst the broader economic downturn as well as the specific slowdown that has plagued…
USA Network has given the greenlight to the pilot “White Collar.” The series stars Matthew Bomer and Tim DeKay as a con artist and an FBI agent, respectively, who have been playing cat-and-mouse for years. Bronwen Hughes (USA’s “Burn Notice,”…
If you’re looking for a good book to read these days, chances are you’ll run into an online book trailer promoting it. Authors and publishers increasingly are turning to Web video to market their books, opening up a potential new…
CBS is showing some love to new comedy “Worst Week.” The network has just ordered two more scripts of the show, which is produced by CBS Paramount Network Television and Universal Media Studios. While the order isn’t the same as…
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Consumer Electronics Association have announced the nominees for their inaugural Global Media Awards. The awards honor the advancement and merger of technology and entertainment in 13 categories, including short-form, advertising,…
Two faces long a part of Election Night in this country, former CBS anchor Dan Rather and former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, will be part of the TV scene on Nov. 4, when history will be made no matter what…