HD programming picks for Feb. 7-Feb. 13: “Wildlife Man,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “Lawrence of Arabia” “Wildlife Man: Treasure in Paradise” (Discovery HD). Thursday, Feb. 7, 11 p.m. Intrepid host David Ireland films the 2-mile-deep underwater canyons of East Timor….
DirecTV, Fox Sports Will Boost HD Baseball Broadcasts DirecTV will show as many as 40 Major League Baseball games a week in high definition as part of its MLB Extra Innings package, while the Seattle Mariners team will air all…
Online video production and distribution shop TurnHere landed $7.5 million in funding from Venrock Capital and Hearst Interactive Media. The company will use the cash to develop new online video products and services. TurnHere customers include CondéNet, Discovery Networks, Williams-Sonoma,…
Academy President ‘Nervous’ About Oscars Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis said the Writers Guild of America strike is making him “nervous” about the Academy Awards, according to Daily Variety. Awards producers who need to make…
The Associated Press said competitive haste was not the cause of its fumbled call late Tuesday night that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton would win the tight Missouri Democratic primary. The AP partners with the broadcast and cable news organizations…
Discovery Communications hired AOL’s Kathleen Kayse as executive VP of digital media sales. Ms. Kayse had been executive VP, marketing solutions, for AOL’s Platform A advertising unit. At Discovery, Ms. Kayse will work with the digital media division to lead…
John McWethy, the longtime ABC News national security correspondent, died Wednesday. He was 61. Mr. McWethy, who had retired in 2003 and moved to Boulder, Colo., because of his love for skiing and golf, died in an accident on the…
Internet television production studio Next New Networks linked up with top social-networking site MySpace in a partnership to deliver some of Next New’s shows on MySpace. Under the deal, MySpace will carry Next New’s shows including “Barely Political,” “Channel Frederator,”…
MySpace said it launched the second season of its first original series, “Roommates,” at www.myspace.com/roommates on Wednesday. The social networking site said the first season of the show generated 6 million views. Ford is sponsoring the show’s second season. New…
The Walt Disney Co.’s cable and TV operations helped boost revenues 9% in the quarter ended Dec. 31. That boost helped the media giant beat Wall Street expectations even as profits dropped 25% year-to-year for the quarter. Disney reported net…