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Showtime, Spielberg Team on Series Scripted show to chronicle development of a Broadway musical Broadcasting & Cable
Showtime and Steven Spielberg want to put on a show about putting on a Broadway show.
DreamWorks TV and Showtime are in the early stages of developing a scripted series that will chronicle the development of an original Broadway musical, from its creative inception through its opening night. The intention is to then mount the tuner on the Main Stem after the series airs.
Hallmark Looks To Cast Celebrities In A Positive Light With New Blog CelebrityGoodLife.com Will Focus On The Positives Of The Rich And Famous Multichannel News
To provide a forum for reprehensible celebrity behavior -- think Serena Williams at the U.S. Open or Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards - Hallmark Channel is launching a feel-good blog for the famous.The family-friendly network will debut www.CelebrityGoodLife.com, whose mission statement is "clean up the red carpet."Whether the news is love and marriage, children, chivalry..... Hallmark Looks To Cast Celebrities In Positive Light With New Blog CelebrityGoodLife.com Focuses On Good Deeds From The Rich And Famous Multichannel News
To provide a forum for reprehensible celebrity behavior -- think Serena Williams at the U.S. Open or Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards - Hallmark Channel is launching a feel-good blog for the famous.The family-friendly network will debut www.CelebrityGoodLife.com, whose mission statement is "clean up the red carpet."Whether the news is love and marriage, children, chivalry..... BendBroadband Adopts DOCSIS 3.0 To Drive 60 Mbps HSI Service Will Bow In Central Oregon In Early October Multichannel News
BendBroadband will make its next-generation DOCSIS 3.0 high-speed Internet service available to residential and business customers next month.
With DOCSIS 3.0-enabled wideband service, the operator will offer download speeds up to 60 Mbps. The DOCSIS 3.0 technology enables the bonding of multiple digital channels which results in significantly more throughput capacity. ..... FCC Recommends Renewal Of Studies Examining Market-Entry Barriers To Women, Minorities Agency's Diversity Committee Wants Adarand Renewal Multichannel News
The Federal Communication Commission's Diversity Committee has recommended that the agency renew its Adarand studies examining market entry barriers to women and minorities, and to make sure that the peer-reviewed studies have sufficient funding so that the result could meet the standards of a reviewing court.
The Supreme Court's Adarand decision held that "federa..... 'MNF' Matchup Sets 2009 Cable Mark With 14.7 Million Viewers ESPN's Indianapolis-Miami Contest Knocks 40th Season-Opener From The Top Spot Multichannel News
Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts held the ball for less than 15 minutes in their win over the Miami Dolphins last night. And the Sept. 14 opener of Monday Night Football only kept the record for cable's top show in 2009 for just one week. ESPN's Sept. 21 telecast of Indianapolis' 27-23 victory averaged an 11.0 rating, 10.8 million households and 14.7 mill..... MNF Colts-Dolphins Matchup Sets 2009 Cable Mark With 14.7 Million Viewers Indy-Miami Contest Knocks 40th Season-Opener From The Top Spot Multichannel News
Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts held the ball for less than 15 minutes in their win over the Miami Dolphins last night. And the Sept. 14 opener of Monday Night Football only kept the record for cable's top telecast for one week. ESPN's telecast of Indianapolis' 27-23 victory averaged an 11.0 rating, 10.8 million households and 14.7 million viewers, the most in ..... PBS leads news Emmy winners Nellie Andreeva LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - PBS led the pack at the 30th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards with six wins, followed by NBC and CBS with five. NBC to scale Canadian "Mountain" Nellie Andreeva LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC is heading for "The Mountain." The network is close to green-lighting a two-hour Rockefeller, Hutchison Introduce Bill To Extend PSIC Grant Program Funds Support State Efforts To Provider Interoperable Equipment, Training Multichannel News
Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) have jointly introduced a bill to extend the Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC) grant program.That is the program that funds state efforts to provide interoperable equipment and training and the legislators want to make sure they have the money to deploy projects in the works."States should be granted ..... Rockefeller, Hutchison Introduce PSIC Bill Public Safety Interoperable Communications grant program funds interoperable equipment and training Broadcasting & Cable
Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WVA) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex) have jointly introduced a bill to extend the Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC) grant program. That is the program that funds state efforts to provide interoperable equipment and training, and the legislators want to make sure they have the money to deploy projects in the works. "States should b..... NYTVF: Hammer, Rosen Weigh In On Current State of the Industry Broadcast and station business, Nielsen and TV development cycle among topics Broadcasting & Cable
The broadcast and station business, Nielsen and the TV development cycle were all topics of discussion at an “Industry Day” panel at the New York Television Festival Sept. 22. NATPE President Rick Feldman moderated the panel, which was comprised of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment President Bonnie Hammer and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Head of Television Ri..... FCC's Next Meeting Devoted to Broadband Plan Slated for Sept. 29 and will address the status of the commission's development of the plan Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC says its next public meeting will be Sept. 29 and will be devoted to the National Broadband Plan, or more specifically "presentations on the status of the Commission’s processes for development of" that plan, which is due to Congress Feb. 17. The majority of FCC meetings this year have been devoted to, or featured, various updates on ongoing issues, including on the..... Ovation TV To Sell Ads Through Google Search Giant to Offer Advertisers Placement on Art-Centric Channel Multichannel News
Ovation TV has struck a deal with Google to let the search engine firm sell national advertising spots on behalf of the art-centric network beginning Oct. 2.
Other networks that currently offer some amount of inventory through Google's TV ad-sales service include six owned by NBC Universal -- CNBC, Syfy, Oxygen, MSBNC, Sleuth and Chiller -- as well as Bloomberg TV, Hal..... Estelle Getty's Emmy Up For Sale On eBay Academy of TV trying to take trophy off of site Broadcasting & Cable
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is working to have the 1988 Emmy won by Estelle Getty taken off eBay.
Getty's trophy for supporting comedy actress for her work in "The Golden Girls" was put up for sale on the site last week by a seller that specializes in fine art. Initial asking price is $15,000. No bids had been made as of Monday afternoon.
W..... RTNDA Changes Name to RTDNA News professionals' trade org reaches out to newer-media types Broadcasting & Cable
You may have to squint to notice the difference, but the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) is changing its name to the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Oct. 13.
The electronic journalists' trade association says the rebrand is about bringing a broader swath of news professionals-including digital media types-under the tent.
..... Heather Locklear to return to "Melrose Place" ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Heather Locklear, who played a scheming advertising executive in 1990s drama "Melrose Place," is reprising the role in the new version of the show, the CW television network said on Tues Dish Dealers Pay Almost $1.3 Million In FTC Settlement Vision Quest, New Edge Settle Do Not Call Charges Multichannel News
Two Dish Network dealers, Vision Quest and New Edge, have agreed to pay more than a million dollars between them to settle FTC charges they violated the Do Not Call registry.
At the request of the FTC, the Justice Department filed complaints against the dealers back in March, at the same time a complaint was filed against Dish, which is currently litigating the complaint.
FTC Seeks Comment On Food Marketing To Kids, Adolescents Agency Wants To Update 2006 Study Published Last Year Multichannel News
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on its proposal to conduct a new study food marketing to kids and adolescents.
The study would be a follow-up to the 2006 data published just last year. It is proposing to seek more information from 45 food, beverage and fast food restaurant companies, including their child-targeted marketing activities and expenditures..... NBCU Seeks 'White Collar' Promotion Partners Behind USA Series LAS Program Provides Points Toward High-End Merchandise Multichannel News
NBC Universal wants its multichannel video programming distributors to join its promotion behind USA Network's upcoming series focusing on partners in crime prevention.Supporting the Oct. 23 premiere of White Collar, the initiative is designed as a flexible, turnkey promotional opportunity, giving affiliates that drive local ad sales the chance to redeem points towards an .....
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