Katie Couric will mark her first anniversary as anchor and managing editor of “CBS Evening News” with a 12-day trip to Iraq and Syria, in advance of the status report by Gen. David Petraeus that will be used by President…
The Writers Guild of America is wading into the “Kid Nation” debate, with President Patric Verrone condemning the working arrangements on the much-discussed New Mexico production. “This is a story that is incomplete, because it’s not only the kids for…
Fox owned-and-operated TV stations have launched two new online projects designed to strengthen the stations’ connections with high school communities and student bodies. In New York City, Fox-owned flagship station WNYW-TV VP and General Manager Lew Leone and Varsity Networks…
Not a toilet-flushing cat in the bunch. When Google last week unveiled its long-awaited ad model for YouTube, curiously absent were the flushing felines and lip-syncing college kids popularized by the poster child for user-generated video. Instead of running across…
Celebrities will be programming Turner Classic Movies during the month of November. The stars, ranging fromDanny DeVito, Matt Groening and Brian Dennehy to Donald Trump, Martha Stewart and Maria Menounos, will co-host their lineup with TCM’s Robert Osborne. For example,…
The season finale of Lifetime’s “Army Wives” was the most-watched series episode in the network’s 23-year history. Sunday’s episode drew 4.1 million total viewers and finished the year as the network’s highest rated original scripted drama in households, women 18…
Going the next step in the controversy over food advertising targeting children, the producer of NBC and Telemundo’s three-hour Qubo block of kids shows is pledging to limit any food ads running during the programs to more nutritious products. Ion…
NBC Universal is more than doubling its international cable stable with an agreement to acquire Sparrowhawk Holdings and its portfolio of 18 non-U.S. Hallmark pay TV channels — channels that reach 60 million subscribers in 152 territories in the United…
“Hell’s Kitchen” star Gordon Ramsay broke his silence on a lawsuit accusing the perfectionist chef of faking scenes in a New York eatery for his upcoming Fox reality show. “I would never-ever-ever dream of setting anything up,” Mr. Ramsay said…
Chip Reid, an 11-year veteran of NBC News, is moving to CBS News as its Capitol Hill correspondent. Mr. Reid’s hire, effective Sept. 4, means Sharyl Attkisson becomes a Washington, D.C.-based investigative correspondent after a year and a half covering…