NBC Co-Head of Entertainment Ben Silverman has a reputation as a party animal, but he is also on the offensive, calling out his former boss, ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson, as well as Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly in an…
“The Martha Stewart Show” is making a quartet, as distributor NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has cleared the strip for its fourth season in more than 60 % of the country. “’The Martha Stewart Show’ continues to be one of…
When last year’s ad-buying currency, live program ratings, is compared to this year’s measurement—average commercial ratings plus three days of digital video recorder playback—the majority of broadcast programming is down from last year’s levels, although a handful of shows are…
Strike May Force Job Cuts: Companies that don’t currently have shows in production with studios could be receiving suspension letters as soon as today, a move that could cost lower-level workers their jobs, the Los Angeles Times reports. The early…
The restructuring at ABC News continues with the promotion of veteran Kate O’Brian to senior VP for news. In her new position, Ms. O’Brian will oversee newsgathering, the Washington bureau, NewsOne, ABC News Radio and affiliate relations. Ms. O’Brian, most…
CNN has made an out-of-the-box choice for senior executive producer of the prime-time show being developed for Campbell Brown: Mitch Semel, who has been a late-night comedy, prime-time, kids and news programming executive in cable, commercial and public broadcasting and…
Hallmark Channel said some of its fourth-quarter ad prices are up as much as 75% and that the writers strike could send viewers its way. Henry Schleiff, CEO of Hallmark Channel parent Crown Media, told analysts on the company’s third-quarter…
Even though NBC Universal has cut off its deal to distribute video over Google’s YouTube, the companies still talk, said NBC Universal Senior VP Ron Lamprecht at the Ad:Tech convention in New York. That doesn’t mean the media giant has…
Cablevision Systems posted a bigger third-quarter loss and the cable company said subscriber growth for its video, high-speed Internet and phone services would slow for the rest of the year. Revenue rose 9.4 % to $1.5 billion. For the quarter,…
Mojo, the all high-definition channel geared toward affluent men, announced the launch of Mojo Money Night, a Thursday night programming block catering to those in the world of high finance. The new lineup, to appear in January, will feature three…