ESPN is pulling out the stops for David Beckham’s first game for the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer on July 21. Coverage starts with an expanded edition of “SportsCenter” at 6 p.m. (ET); a special titled “David Beckham:…
NBC Sports has reached an agreement with the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club on a long-term extension of its contract to broadcast the Championships at Wimbledon, as expected (TelevisionWeek, June 25). As part of the deal, NBC Sports…
National Geographic Channel named Discovery Communications veteran Steve Burns as executive VP for content as the channel remakes its top management. Mr. Burns replaces John Ford, who left Nat Geo in March for a production company and to pursue other…
If “Entourage” creator-executive producer Doug Ellin could shoot anywhere in the world, he’d choose New York. In this week’s exclusive Backlot Talk podcast, Mr. Ellin says his dream is to shoot an entire season in New York. He had plans…
NBC Universal started shutting down its online video syndication venture NBBC this week and folding it into the NBC-Fox joint venture that’s slated to launch later this year. NBCU launched NBBC late last year as an online video syndication marketplace…
Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” continued to grill the competition Monday night, while viewers apparently think NBC’s “Age of Love” is getting old. “Kitchen” was the top-rated program for the evening, with a 3.8 rating among adults 18 to 49, according to…
WSB-TV and WSOC-TV, the Cox-owned ABC affiliates in Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., respectively are finally going to carry the network’s five-season-old “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” finally putting “Kimmel” on every network-affiliated station in the country. Starting July 10 in Atlanta and…
AOL relaunched its video portal today at http://video.aol.com to include a revamped home page and improved video search. The goal with the makeover is to give consumers access to more videos from across the Web, in addition to the licensed…
Joel Siegel, “Good Morning America’s” entertainment critic, died today, according to ABC News. ABC News’ Web site reported that Mr. Siegel died in New York, after after a long struggle with cancer, at the age of 63. Mr. Siegel graduated…