HD programming picks for Sept. 27-Oct. 3: “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Office,” “Pushing Daisies” “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC HD). Thursday, Sept. 27, 9 p.m.: Seattle Grace’s cast of characters returns, with the interns having graduated to residents and Christina searching for Dr….
Warning that increasing use of product placement and product integration are “blurring” the line between TV ads and TV content, two congressional committee chairmen are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to do more to make sure viewers know what…
Alexis Glick has been named vice president of business news for Fox Business Network, which launches Oct. 15 to more than 30 million cable subscribers. She will report to Senior VP and Managing Editor of Business News Neil Cavuto. “Alexis…
NBC has ordered eight episodes of “My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad,” a new reality competition series from executive producer Mark Burnett and Reveille. The show features families competing in a series of stunt-driven challenges for various prizes. It’s…
NBC Universal is expanding a ban on so-called junk food ads from its Qubo block of kids informational programming to include ad breaks in that programming on the local stations it owns, putting more pressure on other networks to follow…
Fox News inked a deal today with online television technology service Maven Networks to deliver Web video for the network. Fox News will use Maven’s service to expand its online video offerings starting in the next few weeks, Maven said….
CNBC Plus’ commercial-free live streaming video and searchable ticker-based video will be integrated into the thinkorswim.com trading platform, starting this weekend. Thinkorswim is owned by Investools, which offers education and services for individual, or self-directed, traders. CNBC Plus video-on-demand service…
The Nielsen Co. said Wednesday it will triple the size of its National People Meter television ratings sample by 2011. Nielsen now takes viewing information from 12,000 U.S. households and 35,000 people to project national ratings. That sample will increase…
Discovery Channel is hoping a bit of the Halo video game fever will bring some heat to its new show “Last One Standing.” In conjunction with this week’s highly anticipated release of the Halo 3 XBox game, Discovery’s media agency…
About a year ago, Erin Flaxman was wearing an orange apron at work. Ms. Flaxman, who was named senior VP and director of business development at Initiative North America earlier this week, had completed her MBA after eight years in…