The NBC News bureau system is being streamlined in an effort to achieve more journalism and less bureaucracy in the newsgathering operation. That’s the way NBC News President Steve Capus explained it to TelevisionWeek after a conference call with bureau…
After pointing to a number of reasons for a dark final quarter of 2007 for DVD sales, studio executives see universal Blu-ray adoption as the major reason to hope for a brighter 2008. Of six studios that have reported end-of-year…
The player: Thomas Hayden, executive vice president and general manager at Smithsonian Networks The play: Hayden last year began leading Showtime’s development of Smithsonian Networks, a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. The joint venture was started in early 2006 to…
HD programming picks for Feb. 14-20: “My Cousin Vinny” (Cinemax). Friday, Feb. 15, 11:30 a.m. ET. Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei, who won the supporting actress Oscar for this performance, star in the courtroom comedy set in the South. Fred…
Gallery HD Channel Puts U.K. Forgery Specialist in Classroom Voom’s Gallery HD visual arts channel on March 3 will start airing a 10-episode series featuring convicted forger John Myatt teaching students the art of replicating the paintings of master artists….
Netflix hit first, but Best Buy may have hit harder. Toshiba’s next-generation HD DVD format received two pieces of bad news this week, when Netflix and Best Buy both said they will progress toward exclusively backing Sony’s Blu-ray format this…
Logo announced plans for its first feature film, which will be based on its series “Noah’s Arc.” The movie, with a working title “Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom,” is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2008, with…
Phil Balboni will leave the New England Cable News operation he founded, and has run successfully for 16 years, in March. The NECN president announced Thursday that he intends to launch what he described as the first U.S.-based Web site…
The head of ad sales for Oxygen Media has left the company. When Oxygen Media was acquired by NBC Universal last year, NBC Universal officials said tat they had expected Mary Jeanne (MJ) Cavanagh to remain as executive VP of…
Hollywood Foreign Press to Sue WGA Over Globes Cancellation The Hollywood Foreign Press is planning to sue the Writers Guild of America for not agreeing to an exception that would have allowed the Golden Globes Awards ceremony to take place…