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Ellen DeGeneres to Replace Paula Abdul as 'American Idol' Judge Talk host will join show after the auditions Broadcasting & Cable
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has joined American Idol as a fourth judge replacing Paula Abdul, who announced this summer via Twitter that she would not return for the series’ ninth season.
DeGeneres will sit alongside Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi and throughout the competition, according to an announcement Fox made Sept. 9.
The n..... Disney CFO seeing "good signs" in ad market Alex Dobuzinskis and Gina Keating LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co has seen a firming in local ad markets and more activity by auto makers in national ad sales but s Syndication Ratings: Jackson Case Developments Help Magazines, Talkers Cool Broadcasting & Cable
Talk shows, which had been mostly hot for most of August, cooled off in the week ending Aug. 30 with the notable exception of the top two—CTD’s Oprah and Dr. Phil. While PUT levels declined from the week before by more than 1.1 million viewers, Oprah still managed to grab a 3% increase to 3.6 and Dr. Phil grew 4% to 2.6. Everything else in the genre was down ..... Chevron taken to task in "Crude" documentary Eric Monder LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you like stories with real-life good guys and bad guys, then "Crude" is for you. Joe CBS Orders More 'Big Brother' 12th edition of reality series to air next summer Broadcasting & Cable
CBS has ordered a 12th edition of Big Brother to air next summer.
Eye confirmed the renewal of the Endemol-produced skein on Wednesday. Network is in talks with longtime showrunners Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan to return as Big Brother showrunners. The pair recently signed an overall production pact with Sony Pictures T.
Click here for the full story at Varie..... NTIA Posts Online Database Of Broadband Stimulus Funding Bids Approximately 2,200 bids came from five territories and the District of Columbia in addition to all 50 states Broadcasting & Cable
As promised, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration has posted an online database of the bids submitted for the first of the $7.2 million broadband stimulus funding. NTIA said Wednesday that the approximately 2,200 bids came from five territories and the District of Columbia in addition to all 50 states. The cable bids ranged from an operator seekin..... Emmys: Live Band Tunes Up for Telecast Awards show to feature live music for the first time since 2004 Broadcasting & Cable
Emmycast producer Don Mischer hopes to shake up the status quo -- along with the audience at the Nokia Theater on Sept. 20 -- by reinstating a long-held but recently forgotten Emmy tradition: live music as part of the broadcast.
And
what's more, Mischer says, the band -- an all-star ensemble from the
worlds of jazz and rock -- will be onstage throughout, not relegated ..... Live Band Tunes Up For Emmys Mischer shakes up telecast with live music Broadcasting & Cable
Emmycast producer Don Mischer hopes to shake up the status quo -- along with the audience at the Nokia Theater on Sept. 20 -- by reinstating a long-held but recently forgotten Emmy tradition: live music as part of the broadcast.
And what's more, Mischer says, the band -- an all-star ensemble from the worlds of jazz and rock -- will be onstage throughout, not relegated ..... Consumer Groups Discuss Broadband at Workshop Transparency, consumer control, education, and better data among the groups watchwords Broadcasting & Cable
Transparency, consumer control, education, and better data, were some of the watchwords from consumer groups at an FCC broadband workshop Wednesday.Taking dead aim at broadband data-collection efforts to date was Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation.He said that nobody really knows the impact of broadband on the consumer because net..... Cable Ratings: FX's 'Sons Of Anarchy' Rides To Ratings Record Series drew 4.29 million viewers Broadcasting & Cable
The second season premiere of Sons of Anarchy on FX debuted to a series high Sept. 8. Anarchy drew 4.29 million total viewers, including 3.03 million P18-49. The program grew 95% over its series premiere in the key 18-49 demo, the largest increase ever for the second season premiere of an FX series. For comparison, Nip/Tuck grew 33% in its second season...... Burke Says Comcast Would Look at Complementary Content Acquisitions But COO says no transformational deals in the works Broadcasting & Cable
Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke gave some fleeting hope to deal brokers at an industry conference Wednesday, stating that the cable giant would take a hard look at content deals, while also saying Comcast has no plans to make make any transformational deals.
Comcast COO Steve BurkeSteve Burke of ComcastBurke, speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, ..... Ed Hersh Joins Investigation Discovery Executive Team Worked with ID chief Henry Schleiff at Court TV Broadcasting & Cable
Veteran cable executive Ed Hersh has been named to the newly-created role of senior VP or strategic planning for Investigation Discovery. He will report directly to Investigation Discovery's President and GM Henry Schleiff.
Hersh's responsibilities will include creating long-term content, production, acquisitions, marketing and promoting strategies for the networ..... Time Warner CFO Talks M&A John Martin identifies potential areas for expansion Broadcasting & Cable
Time Warner Chief Financial Officer John Martin outlined the company's mergers and acquisitions strategy today at the annual Bank of America-Merrill Lynch media and communications get together.
Martin said: "We are trying to focus our resources in capital, we've identified areas where we will be willing to invest...like local TV and home production, games and net..... ABC Leases HD Production Facilities at Andrita Will Originate 'All My Children' From January Multichannel News
ABC Daytime has inked a
long-term agreement with the Andrita Media
Center in Los
Angeles that will allow the broadcaster to begin
producing its daytime soap All My
Children in HDTV in January of 2010.
Under the agreement, ABC
has leased the 18,000-square-foot Andrita Stage 1; the 10,000-square-foot
Andrita Stage 2; a variety of camera and production facilities; a..... Cronkite's Legacy Celebrated at Memorial Service Luminaries from the worlds of politics, music and journalism celebrate the life and legacy of Walter Cronkite Sept. 9 at a memorial service a Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall Broadcasting & Cable
Luminaries from the worlds of politics, music and journalism celebrated the life and legacy of Walter Cronkite Sept. 9 at a memorial service at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.
Everyone who was anyone in television journalism was there: Cronkite’s CBS News colleagues Morley Safer, Bob Schieffer and Bill Plante as well as Katie Couric, CBS News president Sean ..... ESPN's USC-Ohio State Game Goes 3-D College-Football Trial Telecast to Screen In Theaters Multichannel News
ESPN will produce and televise the Sept. 14 USC-Ohio
State college-football game in 3-D, marking the first time the programmer has
distributed a live 3-D sporting event to fans.
Viewers will be able to watch the game -- set for Ohio
Stadium in Columbus, Ohio
-- for free on the University of Southern
California campus in Los
Angeles and in several theaters around the U...... ???Oz' Gets An HD Makeover Warner Bros. Plans HD Makeover for Movie Classic Multichannel News
As part of the 70th-anniversary celebration of TheWizard
of Oz, Warner Home Video and Turner Classic Movies will bring a new HD restoration
of the classic film to nearly 450 theaters on Sept. 23. The one-night-only
event will be followed by the release of newly remastered Blu-ray and DVD
editions of the film.
Warner Bros. last restored the film in 2005, but a..... Broadband Plan Focus of FCC Public Meeting Sept. 29 meeting will consist of a single item and a staff report on the status of the plan Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC has announced its agenda for the Sept. 29 public meeting and it reflects the current top priority of the commission: the national broadband plan. The meeting will consist of a single item, a staff report on the status of the plan, which the FCC has to deliver to Congress on Feb. 17, 2009. The FCC got a status report on broadband at its last meeting as well, but share..... Twentieth Bringing 'Dog Whisperer' to Stations One-hour strip to premiere fall 2010 Broadcasting & Cable
Twentieth Television is bringing National Geographic's The Dog Whisperer, starring dog-behavior specialist Cesar Millan, to TV stations as a one-hour strip for next fall, sources confirmed. The show will be sold on an all-barter basis. More than 100 episodes of the show have been produced, and more are in the pipeline."There's already tremendous interest in this progr..... Bresnan Deploys Web-To-TV Platform Operator Uses Clearleap System for Managing Local Content Multichannel News
Bresnan Communications has deployed Clearleap's Internet-based system to ingest and manage local video-on-demand content.
The cable operator is using the Clearleap platform to manage The Spot, a VOD section with localized channels featuring businesses in categories such as jobs, dining and events. In addition, Bresnan plans to use the system to ingest Web-delivered con.....
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