Lionsgate and Comcast Entertainment Group have entered into a first-look partnership deal that gives Lionsgate Home Entertainment distribution rights to series from Comcast’s cable channel lineup, including E! Entertainment Television, Style Network and G4. The first program to be released…
YouTube is not the most important online video distribution partner. Sounds like a pretty crazy statement, right? After all, Nielsen Online said YouTube delivered 3.8 billion video streams to 68 million unique visitors in May, more than 11 times the…
CBS Corp. has completed its acquisition of CNET Networks, which will be merged into the operations of the CBS Interactive division. The newly expanded division will incorporate all the online brands of CBS and CNET Networks, making CBS Interactive the…
The head of programming and production at TV One, Rose Catherine Pinkney, has left the network to return to Los Angeles to pursue other business interests, the network said Monday. Ms. Pinkney, who had been executive VP of programming and…
LIN TV veteran Edward L. Munson Jr. is joining Meredith Broadcasting Group as general manager of KPHO-TV, Meredith’s CBS affiliate in Phoenix. Mr. Munson spent 17 years with LIN TV, most recently as the VP responsible for sales strategy for…
E! Entertainment has partnered with Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cîroc Vodka, for which he had done ads, for a new public action campaign, Drive Safe, promoting safe drinking and driving habits. In addition to Mr. Combs, E!’s Drive Safe campaign…
Barbara Bekkedahl has been named Bravo’s vice president of sales. Bekkedahl will oversee the Bravo sales team, working with sales management teams on the East and West coasts as well as the regional sales offices in Chicago and Detroit. Bekkedahl…
NBC Universal promoted Vivi Zigler to president of NBC Universal digital entertainment, a nod to her work in building NBC.com into a hub for consumers to watch the networks’ shows online. Previously executive VP of digital entertainment, Ms. Zigler will…
SXM and Ikea will co-produce “Easy to Assemble,” a scripted Web series written and created by and starring Illeana Douglas. The show follows Douglas and her celebrity friends, who will be named next week, as they try to assimilate into…
Spike TV will premiere Associated Television International’s unscripted series “Real Vice Cops Uncut” Aug. 6 at 10 p.m. The six half-hour episodes feature ride-alongs with local police agencies in Memphis, Tenn., and Orlando, Fla., as they take down criminals involved…