The membership of the Writers Guild of America has officially ratified the new contract that ended the 14-week-long strike. The new agreement will be in place through May 1, 2011. Of the 4,060 votes cast by WGA members, 93.6% were…
A New York State appellate court is reversing a ruling that allowed Comcast to move the NFL Network to a premium tier, sending the case back to a lower court for a decision on whether the move was legal. The…
A federal court judge in Manhattan declined to toss out the lawsuit against “Dateline NBC” filed by the sister of a Texas man who shot and killed himself when a “To Catch a Predator” camera crew arrived at his home…
Major advertisers and media buyers want to sit down with ABC, CBS and NBC to discuss the integration fees they charge sponsors. The fee originally covered the cost of integrating commercials into the networks’ programming stream. Now, even though spots…
Francois Martin has been appointed senior vice president of marketing for Dimension Films, effective immediately. A genre label of the Weinstein Co., Dimension’s slate includes the “Scream” movies and last year’s “Halloween” remake. In the new position, Mr. Martin will…
Laura Frasca has been promoted to vice president of development at Atlas Media Corp., the company announced today. Ms. Frasca previously was the company’s director of development. “Lauren’s well-earned promotion recognizes her creativity and devotion to her craft. She has…
A 3% decline in CBS TV revenues contributed to a year-to-year drop of more than 14% in earnings for CBS Corp. for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2007, the company reported Tuesday. Revenues fell to $3.76 billion for the fourth…
Gospel Music Channel struck a distribution deal with DirecTV and will be available to the satellite TV company’s subscribers beginning March 19. Terms were not disclosed. “With the addition of DirecTV, GMC is now available to nearly 40 million subscribers,”…
MyNetworkTV is the new home of World Wrestling Entertainment’s “Smackdown,” the network announced Tuesday. The two-hour program will begin airing weekly this fall. “The momentum at MyNetworkTV continues with this major acquisition,” said MyNetworkTV President Greg Meidel. “We have demonstrated…
Nielsen Modernization Plan Suffers Setbacks (New York Times) TV ratings authority Nielsen is trying to track people’s usage of other media including the Internet, but its ambitions to modernize have taken two recent blows, the New York Times says. Some…