NBC’s Libby Hansen has been promoted to senior vice president of alternative series and specials. She will be in charge of the Peacock network’s current slate of reality programming as well as developing future projects. “Libby brings great passion, creativity…
The South by Southwest conference this week in Austin is drawing Web video producers, networks and talent, and Daisy Whitney is covering the event live on video for TVWeek and Beet.TV. Daisy is scoring interviews with Lindsay Campbell of Wallstrip…
By the time you read this, I will be in Austin. For those of you who aren’t in the ultra hip know, that means I’ll be at South by Southwest. That’s SXSW, for the hipness-impaired. I’ll be there Sunday March…
Oxygen Media named Amy Introcaso-Davis as senior VP of original programming and development, bringing another Bravo executive to the network acquired by NBC Universal last year. Ms. Introcaso-Davis had been senior VP of development and production at Bravo, having joined…
Regis Philbin will receive a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the organization’s 35th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The awards ceremony will be held June 20 at Hollywood’s Kodak Theater and broadcast live…
HBO is teaming up with the Weinstein Co. and the BBC on drama series “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” Based on Alexander McCall Smith’s popular book series, the show will star Grammy Award winner Jill Scott as Precious Ramotswe….
Thirty-seven years after Rick Kaplan began his network news career as an associate producer on “The CBS Morning News,” he’s back as the interim executive producer of the show best known for perpetually running a distant third to its competitors…
For NBC’s “Today” morning show, three consecutive weeks of viewership increases at the peak of the presidential primary season added up to the widest non-Olympics February sweeps margin of victory in four years. “Today” averaged 6.06 million total viewers for…
Coming out of the 14-week Writers Guild of America Strike, NBC’s late-night lineup of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” saw a big ratings boost compared with rival shows on CBS. For the first…
Digital media company Entriq acquired technology provider DayPort for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced today. The acquisition is one of the latest in a string of mergers in the online video business, fulfilling experts’ predictions that consolidation would begin…