Discovery Communications said it plans to change the name of its Discovery Times Channel to Investigation Discovery starting Jan. 27. Discovery Times was launched as a joint venture with the New York Times Co. in 2003. The joint venture was…
Food Network said production of its prime-time staple “Emeril Live” is shutting down Dec. 11, but that it will continue to work with celebrity chief Emeril Lagasse. “Emeril Live” has been on the network since 1997 and will continue on…
ABC News struck a partnership with trendy social-networking site Facebook to provide political and debate information for the 2008 election. The deal is the latest in a series of linkups between old media and new media for the elections. CNN…
Writers, Producers Return to Bargaining The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers are returning to the bargaining table today after three weeks with no contract movement, Daily Variety says. Instituting a media blackout,…
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I have been following this first-of-its-kind play-by-play media coverage of the Writers Guild of America strike in TelevisionWeek and the general media with pathetic fascination—as though I am passing a car wreck I can’t look away from or following the…
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