NBC News President Steve Capus is plotting his division’s course in wake of Tim Russert’s death. But first he wants a few things on the record: The extensive coverage by NBC and MSNBC of the death and legacy of the…
ESPN unveiled its new morning-shift lineup of anchors on “SportsCenter.” The sports cable network said additional coffee will be ordered for Steve Berthiaume, Linda Cohn, Josh Elliott, Robert Flores and Chris McKendry, who have been working other editions of “SportsCenter.”…
Online video viewership dipped 2 percent in May and YouTube took the biggest hit. Consumers viewed 7.45 billion streams of video last month, down from 7.61 billion streams in April, Nielsen Online reported. The world’s biggest video site delivered 3.8…
Warner Horizon Television (WHTV) has tapped Brooke Karzen as its senior vice president of alternative programming. Ms. Karzen will be responsible for the development and production of WHTV’s unscripted programming for broadcast and cable networks. She will work closely with…
ABC’s coverage of this year’s NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers accounted for the six top-rated programs for the month of June thus far. The finals peaked during game six on June 17 from 11:45…
There will be Olympics spots from General Motors, McDonald’s, Budweiser and Nike, but could there also be commercials for Barack Obama during NBC Sports coverage of the Beijing games? The Obama campaign has asked NBC Universal about Olympics advertising packages,…
“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams will host “Meet the Press” Sunday. The headline guests will be Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C. Both were scheduled to appear on last Sunday’s edition of the show, for which…
Rainbow Media today reorganized the management structure of its newly acquired Sundance Channel, putting it under Evan Shapiro, who had been running Rainbow’s independent film channel IFC tv. Mr. Shapiro, currently executive VP and general manager of IFC, was named…
The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors will host “The Reality of Reality,” a panel of discussing the impact, future and all aspects of reality television, June 26 in Beverly Hills. Executive Albert Fisher will chair the panel, which will…
After long, often acrimonious negotiations, Big Ten Network reached a long-term carriage agreement with Comcast that puts the channel on the expanded basic tier during the upcoming football and basketball seasons in the eight states where the conference’s 11 colleges…