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MLB Gets a Jump on Post-Season Marketing

October arrives a little earlier as Major League Baseball rolls out its post-season marketing campaign during the All-Star Game tonight on Fox. The campaign, titled “There’s Only One October,” will feature actor-comedian Dane Cook highlighting great baseball post-season moments, as…

NBCU, EchoStar Make ‘Top Chef’ Interactive

NBC Universal partnered with EchoStar to offer several interactive features for Bravo’s “Top Chef 3 Miami,” which currently airs on Wednesdays. Under the deal, Echostar has enabled synchronized voting and polling for the show. Viewers can interact using the remote…

ABC Pulls ‘Kyle XY’

ABC has yanked repurposed episodes of sister network ABC Family’s “Kyle XY.” The second season of ABC Family sci-fi drama has been repurposed four times on ABC, averaging a 0.8 rating among adults 18 to 49. The network tried the…

Craig Erwich Out at Fox

With Kevin Reilly stepping in as entertainment president at Fox, Craig Erwich is stepping out. Mr. Erwich held the No. 2 programming spot below Peter Liguori, who today Fox announced will take a chairman title while Mr. Reilly will become…

Fox Soccer to Air International Friendly Games

Fox Soccer Channel is host to four North American summer friendly matches involving international clubs from several leagues around the world. Chelsea FC of England’s Barclays Premier League will meet three-time Korean League champion Suwon Bluewings on Tuesday, July 17…

Fox Hires Reilly as Entertainment President

Fox Broadcasting hired Kevin Reilly as president of entertainment, just over a month after the executive was ousted from a similar job at NBC. Mr. Reilly will report to newly promoted Fox Chairman Peter Liguori, reuniting the pair that, for…

Presidents Promoted at Fox Studio

After a decade leading the studio as presidents, Dana Walden and Gary Newman have been promoted to chairmen of Twentieth Century Fox Television. The title change means there is at least one open president slot at the studio. Moreover, the…

‘Entourage’ Boys Keep Clothes On

Last night’s episode featured the show’s first and only male full frontal shot, as “Entourage” executive producer Doug Ellin says he has no intention of showing Vince or any of the leads in a full-frontal nude scene. “I don’t have…

Dan Patrick Resigns From ESPN

Longtime ESPN anchor Dan Patrick is leaving the company as of Aug. 17. Mr. Patrick will be free to pursue interests with other media companies. “I’ve spent a third of my life at ESPN. All my children were born while…

Fox Wins Sunday With Laughs

Fox won Sunday night with three straight hours of comedy repeats, besting a mostly repeat-strewn field. Fox averaged a 2.2 rating among adults 18 to 49 for the evening, followed by CBS, which aired an original “60 Minutes” (1.4) and…