Daily
newsletter for Broadcast industry specialists and professionals. Keeps
you up to date on the latest breaking news about products, technologies,
companies, events, regulations, people and projects in the Broadcast Industry.
Newsletter Sponsor
To receive this or other Digital Media Online industry leading newsletters,
please click
here to subscribe.
To advertise on this newsletter, please contact our sales representative.
If you are having problems linking to the stories please click here to go to the online version of this newsletter.
To Unsubscribe from the newsletter,
click here
07/09/08
TNT has built a new media custom promotion around Dodge’s support of the new microseries, "Lucky Chance." Debuting July 22 and spread across 20 installments over a two-week window, "Lucky Chance" is a criminal tale of deception and betrayal through the eyes of undercover Drug Enforcement Agency agent, Lucky Chance. Presented by Dodge and AT&T, the microseries is suppo.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
Montel Williams , whose talk show went out of production in March after 17 seasons on the air, is already shopping another show to syndicators, Williams’ spokeswoman confirmed. The new program is being developed under the title Living Well with Montel and is based on the diet and lifestyle book by the same name that Williams published last January. Sour.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
Fox Cable Networks promoted Michael Hopkins to president of affiliate sales and marketing. He will report directly to Fox Networks Group president and CEO Tony Vinciquerra and remain based on Fox’s Los Angeles studio lot. A veteran of Fox Cable Networks since launch, Hopkins, 40, has been general manager of affiliate sales and marketing since April 2007. He p.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
Beverly Hills, Calif. -- TV One will take a close look at unsolved civil-rights cases from the 1950s as part of its fall programming lineup. Opening the three-week summer Television Critics Association summer press tour , the African-American network also announced during its morning presentation here that it will provide full coverage of the Democratic National Convention next mon.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
Beverly Hills, Calif. -- The star of a new Style reality show, a Georgia woman who recently weighed in at 500 pounds, recalled how she was warned she would die if she didn’t lose weight. Ruby Gettinger, a native of Savannah, Ga., described in detail her lifelong struggle with weight at the Television Critics Association summer tour here during a Tuesday panel on Ruby, .....
...Read More »
07/08/08
Beverly Hills, Calif. -- BBC America will debut a BAFTA award-winning thriller focusing on British Muslim siblings moving in different political directions as part of its programming slate this fall. The thriller will be cablecast in two-hour episodes over consecutive nights in November. The exact broadcast dates have yet to be determined. The show, Britz , is &#.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
NBC will try to embrace the controversy around its Baby Borrowers series with a reunion show and town hall Aug. 6, one week after the show’s season finale. The show has come under fire from some because its premise separated young children from their parents and placed them with teen-agers for three days. “The coincidence of this unique serie.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
BBC World News America executive producer Rome Hartman said one of his show’s challenges is to make sure that the international attention being heaped on U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) does not influence his coverage. “There is a danger of ‘Obama-mania,’ particularly overseas,” Hartman said Tuesday at the Television Crit.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
Beverly Hills, Calif. – The public-relations preparation that a host of G4’s Attack of the Show! claimed she got in advance of appearing before TV writers apparently didn’t sink in too well. During a panel Tuesday at the Television Association Critics tour, sassy host Olivia Munn said that she and co-host Kevin Pereira had been given some impromptu traini.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
Beverly Hills, Calif. – Joel McHale, host of the E! Entertainment Televisiclip show The on Soup, has no fear that he’ll run short of TV shows and people to skewer – and that celebrities don’t seem to take offense at his digs. “Unless the power grids fail, there will never be a shortage,” McHale said during a panel Tuesday at the T.....
...Read More »
07/08/08
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists approved a new three-year contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on terms similar to those previously accepted by members of the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild. The union said 62.4% of its 70,000 members voted in favor of the contract, now effective from July 1 through June 30, 2011.
...Read More »
Daily
newsletter for Broadcast industry specialists and professionals. Keeps
you up to date on the latest breaking news about products, technologies,
companies, events, regulations, people and projects in the Broadcast Industry.
