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CBS Slates Primetime Kennedy Special <p>Ted Kennedy, The Last Brother will air at 8 ET to mark the passing of the Massachusetts Democrat and family patriarch</p> Broadcasting & Cable
CBS News will mark the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) with a primetime special for Aug. 26. Ted Kennedy, The Last Brother will look at the legacy of the long-time senator and patriarch of the famous political dynasty. The one-hour special will air at 8 ET.
Kennedy died late Tuesday night at his home in Hiannis Port, Mass., after a battle with..... Synacor Hires Ex-Yahoo Exec Singh Web Portal Provider Appoints C.J. Singh VP of Product and Engineering Multichannel News
Web portal provider Synacor named former Yahoo executive C.J. Singh as vice president of product and engineering.
Singh previously spent three years as director of engineering and product development with Yahoo, where he was responsible for the company's development centers in Latin America. Prior to that, he was a senior principal engineer with Oracle, where he worked..... MTV Scouts For Talent With OurStage.com Network Will Tap Music For Site Up-and-Coming Performers Multichannel News
Viacom's MTV has signed a marketing deal with music site OurStage to promote up-and-coming performers through the mtvU Six Flags VMA Tour and the network's flagship music event, the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
The companies plan to develop "online integrations" combined with the mass audience of MTV and its related networks MTV2, mtvU and MTV Tr3s. In addition, M..... FCC 'Safe Viewing' Report Tees Up More Study Inquiry will include a request for better data Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC's report to Congress on the state of media-screening technologies, due by the end of this month, comes to two broad conclusions, but does not suggest any action items beyond opening an inquiry prompted by its survey of the current content-control landscape for a variety of media. That inquiry includes a request for better data, something that should come as no surprise fo..... "Singing Bee" getting encore on CMT Gary GraffNEW YORK (Billboard) - Karaoke game show "The Singing Bee" pulled in 1.5 million viewers in its debut on CMT in June -- making it the highest-rated series debut ever on the cable network -- and now CMT has ordered 20 m Cable Ratings: 'True Blood' Episode Is HBO's Most-Watched Since 2004 5.3 million tuned in for vampire series Aug. 23 Broadcasting & Cable
Vampire series True Blood on Sunday night captured HBO's largest audience outside of The Sopranos in more than five years.The Aug. 23 premiere averaged 5.3 million watchers, according to Nielsen Media Research data, up 20% from the previous week's premiere.Installments of the David Chase mob series aside, that was the top performance for an HBO show since a ..... Fast Forward Video Takes Court For Open Omega HD recorder to support world feed Broadcasting & Cable
Fast Forward Video's (FFV) says its Omega HD digital video recorder (DVR) will be used to support the HD international broadcast of the 2009 U.S. Open, the last of the year’s four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, which will be held Aug. 31 through Sept. 13 at the National Tennis Center in Queens, New YorkMobile production company All Mobile Video (AMV), which has been selecte..... PGATour.com to Offer Live Video Streams of Key Holes for Tour Playoffs Begins Aug. 28 with the Barclay's tournament Broadcasting & Cable
PGATour.com is offering live video coverage from signature holes for all four tournaments that make up the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedExCup. Live streaming of the Playoffs tournaments starts Aug. 28 with the Barclay’s tournament. The PGA’s tour Website is offering enhanced coverage with a larger player and multiple stream rates for viewers. The site is also a..... Disney To Offer Free Preview Of New VOD Service Disney Family Movies available over Labor Day on select providers Broadcasting & Cable
Disney’s new subscription video-on-demand service, Disney Family Movies, will offer a free sneak peek to subscribers of Comcast, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-verse, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS over Labor Day weekend. Free Disney movies will be available on demand from Thursday, Sept. 3 through Monday, Sept. 7 to subscribers who sign up with their program providers. Actress Phyl..... TBN Completes New York DMA Distribution Via Cablevision Rollout Faith-Based Service Available On Operator's Digital-Basic Package Multichannel News
Trinity Broadcasting Network has expanded its distribution flock in the New York DMA.The religious broadcaster has secured carriage for its flagship channel TBN with Cablevision. Deal terms were not disclosed, but the network was rolled out on digital basic on channel 134 earlier this month, adding some 2.7 million subscribers to its base.With the launch on the area's predominant..... Arris Grabs Lead In CMTS Market: Analyst Cisco Lost Significant Share in Q2, Says Infonetics Research Multichannel News
Arris captured the No. 1 spot in the worldwide cable-modem termination system market in the second quarter of 2009 -- with 47% share in the period -- as Cisco Systems lost "significant" revenue share, according to market research firm Infonetics Research.
While Arris took the quarterly CMTS lead for the first time, Cisco should close the market share gap in the third quarte..... NFL Network To Deliver Coaches View Martz, Mariucci, Mora To Provide Analysis On Weekly 'Head Coaches' Series Multichannel News
During this pro football season, NFL Network wants to give viewers more analysis from a coaches perspective.Hosted by Charles Davis, the weekly half-hour show The NFL Head Coaches will feature Steve Mariucci, Mike Martz and Jim Mora, all of whom have been on the sidelines and experienced the ups and downs tied to helming a pro squad.Debuting on Sept. 14 at 6:30 p.m. (ET), Th..... Two Top Programming Execs Out at Oprah's OWN Maria Grasso and Nina Wass exit cable channel before launch Broadcasting & Cable
Two top programming executives have left OWN to pursue new ventures. Maria Grasso and Nina Wass exited in the past few weeks, according to a spokeswoman for the yet-to-launch lifestyle network which is jointly owned by Discovery Communications and Oprah Winfrey.
The changes follow the appointment of Jamila Hunter, who was named head of programming for the Burbank-based comp..... Two Top Program Execs Out at Oprah's OWN Maria Grasso and Nina Wass exit cable channel before launch Broadcasting & Cable
Two top programming executives have left OWN to pursue new ventures. Maria Grasso and Nina Wass exited in the past few weeks, according to a spokeswoman for the yet-to-launch lifestyle network which is jointly owned by Discovery Communications and Oprah Winfrey.
The changes follow the appointment of Jamila Hunter, who was named head of programming for the Burbank-based comp..... CMT's 'Bee' Will Sing Again Second Season Of 'The Singing Bee' To Bow In January Multichannel News
CMT will add a second season of competition show The Singing Bee in January.Doubling its rookie season run, the network has ordered 20 episodes of the show from The Gurin Co. and Juma Entertainment.The highest-rated original series in the network's history, the show debuted as CMT's most-watched premiere ever in June with 1.5 million watchers, including 771,000 perso..... HSN HD Now Available To Time Warner Cable's New Customers Coupled With FiOS Launch HD Service Now Available To 3 Million Homes Multichannel News
Time Warner Cable subscribers in the New York area can really see the jewelry coruscate the other merchandise really pop now that HSN is available in the high-definition format.
The cable operator launched the HD version of HSN in the New York area last week, according to officials at the network. Deal terms were not disclosed.
Coupled with the launch on Verizo..... Avail-TVN Distributes TuTv's Spanish-Language VOD Deal Covers Films From De Pel??cula, De Pel??cula Cl??sico Channels Multichannel News
Avail-TVN will deliver more video-on-demand content en EspaÑol through an expanded VOD services deal with TuTv, a joint venture of Grupo Televisa and Univision Communications.
The deal covers movies from TuTV's linear channels, De PelÍcula and De PelÍcula ClÁsico, featuring contemporary and classic Spanish-language films. TuTv recently increased its..... Fuhgetaboudit 'The Sopranos': 'True Blood' Episode Is HBO's Most-Watched Since 2004 5.3 Million Check Out Vampire Series On Aug. 23 Multichannel News
Vampire series True Blood on Sunday night captured HBO's largest audience outside of The Sopranos in more than five years.
The Aug. 23 premiere averaged 5.3 million watchers, according to Nielsen Media Research data, up 20% from the previous week's premiere.
Installments of the David Chase mob series aside, that was the top performance for..... McMahon Heads Up KABC Creative Services, Programming Shifts from a CBS O&O to an ABC O&O Broadcasting & Cable
WBZ/WSBK Boston Creative Services Director Wendy McMahon is moving west
to be vice president of creative services and programming at KABC Los
Angeles.
She joins the station from WBZ TV and WSBK TV, both located in Boston, where she had been director of creative services.
She began her career as promotions manager at WTOC Savannah, and has
also worked at WJXT Jack..... HBO Augments Entertainment Ranks Elevates Bloys To Lead Comedy Series; Hires Diaz From ABC For Drama Development Multichannel News
HBO has beefed up its entertainment executive ranks, elevating Casey Bloys and hiring Jocelyn Diaz from ABC Television.Bloys, who most recently developed the premium network's gigolo series Hung and its upcoming Bored to Death, was promoted to senior vice president, HBO Entertainment comedy series. Bloys oversees the development and production of all half-hour scrip.....
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