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Equity gets more credit

Equity Media Holdings says in an SEC filing that it has entered into a second amendment of its credit agreement with its lenders, Silver Point ...

Tribune signs for LATV multicasts

Bilingual LATV is celebrating expansion into three of the nation’s largest TV markets with a deal to put its programming on Tribune Broadcasting DTV multicast ...

Weather Channel bids said to disappoint

Given the current tight credit market, Reuters reports that preliminary bids for the Weather Channel and its weather.com website came in “significantly below” the hoped ...

Q1 revenues down for Belo

With the Super Bowl on only one Fox station this year, versus five CBS stations last year, Belo reported Q1 revenues down 1% to $174.8 ...

Univision-Televisa trial postponed

Trial did not begin yesterday for Televisa’s attempt to void its long-term contract to provide programming exclusively in the US to Univision. Both sides jointly ...

FOX News Channel to launch in HD tomorrow

FOX News Channel will launch in High Definition (HD) beginning Thursday, May 1st, announced Tim Carry, VP of Affiliate Sales. Initially available to Time Warner ...

The Warner Bros. Television Group is launching TheWB.com, a premium, ad-supported, VOD, interactive and personalized network. The site will Beta launch in early May. TheWB.com ...

Britney Spears is back

If you just can’t get enough of Britney Spears we have good news for you. Production began yesterday on another episode of “How I Met ...

NBC takes US Open to primetime

Actually the US Open Championship has been seen in primetime before due to weather delays, but this year NBC is scheduling the gold tourney to ...

NBCU Domestic Television taking SVU to syndication

NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has sold Dick Wolf's hit procedural drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" to the Fox Television Stations in the ...

M3 Television expands into program development

M3 Television, a video and online production company specializing in content, marketing and technical solutions, announced the establishment of a unit dedicated exclusively to the ...

Univision-Televisa square off in court today

Today in Los Angeles a judge will begin hearing a unique divorce case, in which Mexico’s Grupo Televisa seeks to void its long-term content marriage ...

News crew in the news

A reporter and photographer from Raycom’s WOIO-TV (Ch. 19, CBS) Cleveland were wrapping up a story last week when they realized they were witnesses to ...

Nielsen grabs AOL exec

The Nielsen Company announced that John Burbank has been appointed to the newly created position of Chief Marketing Officer, effective May 9th. Burbank, who is ...

MAXedit Web Edition honored at NAB

It was a show of force for Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com), developers of software-based solutions for networked storage infrastructure and media management, who took home ...

NBC highlights spring sweeps

NBC heads into sweeps with all new "Around the World" episodes and a special "winner takes all" Star Wars-themed episode of its hit game show ...

CBS announces May sweeps

An unprecedented CSI and Two and a Half Men "writers' crossover," cliffhanger finales and the crowning of the Ultimate Survivor, are among the highlights of ...

HDTV catching on

A quarter of US households are now in possession of at least one high definition television set, according to a new study from Frank N. ...

Ion and CBS in “Criminal” deal

Ion Media Networks announced it has entered into a content agreement with CBS Television Distribution for the broadcast syndication rights to the hit television series, ...