NBC and Omnicom Group’s Full Circle Entertainment are developing a weekly hourlong summer comedy series based on “E,” Matt Beaumont’s 2000 novel that relies on a string of e-mails to tell the tale of fictional London ad firm Miller Shanks….
“Sweeps has always been a mixed blessing for advertisers in that it allows networks to focus their broadest-appealing programs into four months of the year. The introduction of commercial ratings by Nielsen will certainly have an impact on the relevance…
Sony Pictures Television has agreed to sell spots to national television advertisers on behalf of the Tennis Channel. Under the exclusive arrangement, Tennis Channel’s in-house ad department will work with tennis-related marketers to try to create other nontraditional integrated sponsorships…
In a last-minute effort to avert a strike, the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers will return to the negotiation table Sunday at 10 a.m. According to the AMPTP, the meeting was called…
Writers, Producers Get Back to the Table
The Federal Communications Commission has taken one of the final steps toward completing its media ownership review by year end, even as Congress delivers new warnings about the timetable and any easing of ownership rules. The FCC on Friday announced…
Barring a last-minute deal with networks and studios, Hollywood writers likely will stage a work stoppage on Monday. During a rally Thursday night at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the guild negotiating committee unanimously recommended a strike to about 3,000…
The most powerful woman in entertainment joined forces today with the world’s biggest video site. Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions partnered with Google-owned YouTube to launch the Oprah channel on the video-sharing site. The Oprah channel features exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage from…
Popular video-sharing site Revver relaunched Thursday with a revamped user interface. The new version of the site includes more community tools, more advertising options and improved search capability, the company said. The site’s library now is organized into more “discrete”…
Viacom’s third-quarter earnings jumped because of gains from the sale of its Famous Music division and the strong performance of the movie “Transformers.” The company’s cable networks—including MTV, Comedy Central and BET—reported a 2% increase in operating income to $796.8…