Products made more appearances in the broadcast shows with the most product placement, according to the Nielsen Product Placement Service. The top 10 shows in product placement on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV registered 22,046 occurrences over…
Directors, Producers Still Without Start Date for Talks The Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers are still without a start date for contract talks, Daily Variety reports. The two sides have met informally,…
With Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman of Viacom and CBS Corp., as honoree and Jon Stewart as host, could the annual gala of the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of TV & Radio) on Feb. 7 be anything…
As part of its broader effort to boost viewership through Internet partnerships, Viacom unit MTV Networks will begin showing video clips of its programming on online video service Veoh Networks and publicly held Web video network GoFish, the companies said…
With Sunday’s glamorous Golden Globes telecast canceled, NBC is trying to retain some of the $20 million in ad revenues the award show was due to generate. Some clients will get the money they would have spent on commercials—at an…
In the first keynote speech by a cable chief executive at the Consumer Electronics Show, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts announced Tuesday that the company is introducing an open technology platform this year that will allow any developer to create interactive…
(Corrected at 3 p.m. to note HD choices in first paragraph.) Comcast will offer more than 1,000 high-definition choices by the end of 2008, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said during his keynote address Tuesday morning at the Consumer Electronics Show…
Marketers at the kids networks are playing musical chairs. Nickelodeon veteran Brenda Freeman has jumped to Turner Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media, where she will be chief marketing officer. At Nickelodeon, Samantha Maltin was promoted to senior VP of…
The pomp and circumstance of the 65th annual Golden Globes has been scaled back dramatically, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announcing today the cancellation of the NBC telecast of the awards due to the writers strike. Instead, the HFPA…