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Oxygen Adds Olympics Coverage

NBC Universal plans to breathe some Oxygen into the Olympics. The women-oriented cable network acquired last year by NBC Universal will carry a two-hour Olympics block featuring extensive commentary on the gymnastics competition from 6 to 8 p.m. ET, before…

Political Uncertainty Sends Ad Spending Soaring

The Super Tuesday results are sending the presidential race into extra innings, delivering the potential for unexpected benefits to media in Washington, D.C., Texas and Ohio, even as fundraising problems and uncertainties about how long the race will last leave…

Cable News Nets Aim to Keep Viewer Defection at a Crawl in Ads

With news from the presidential campaign trail capturing the attention of viewers, cable news networks are hoping to hold that attention by running election returns during commercial breaks. Fox News, CNN and MSNBC said they have been experimenting with running…

Comcast Offers HealthiNation on Demand

Digital network HealthiNation has inked a deal with Comcast Spotlight that brings HealthiNation’s health information to Comcast’s video-on-demand service. The VOD content is available for free to digital cable customers via the “Searchlight” section of the on-demand menu. The rollout…

A Content King and Fashion Queens

For a little more than 12 hours last week, The Insider fluffed up and made like an entry-level socialista/fashionista, a sort of Holly Goheavily. After a late night Thursday at the picket-free Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a tribute to Viacom and…

WGA Leaders Endorse Strike Deal

Writers Guild of America leaders voted to approve an agreement with media companies that would end a three-month long strike that has hobbled the television broadcast networks and idled thousands of workers. The proposal approved by WGA board members now…

WGA East Boss Advises Members to Take Deal

Michael Winship, the president of the Writers Guild of America East, is recommending that his membership accept the tentative agreement reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers end the WGA strike that began Nov. 5. “I believe…

Writers, Producers Reach Tentative Strike Deal

Hollywood writers and studios have a tentative agreement on the table that could end the strike that has hobbled the broadcast television industry since November. “We have a tentative deal,” Writers Guild of America presidents Michael Winship (East) and Patric…

Chart: National Sports Ratings for Week of Jan. 28-Feb 3

Untitled Document National Ratings for Week of Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2008 Event Outlet Household Rating Men 18-49 Rating Thursday, Jan. 31 PGA Golf (FBR Open, 1st Rd.) Golf Channel 0.2 0.0 Friday, Feb. 1 PGA Golf (FBR Open, 2nd Rd.)…

Fox Orders More ‘Kitchen Nightmares’

Fox continues to round out its slate of alternative projects, picking up the next cycle of “Kitchen Nightmares” starring Gordon Ramsey as the studio prepares for its post-strike schedule. The studio confirmed Friday that the series would return to the…